'Into the Breach' strategy game review

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The studio behind FTL: Faster Than Light, Subset Games, have released a new strategy game today - 'Into the Breach'. Engadget has been taking a look:

Into The Breach is a turn-based strategy game where mistakes are costly and character death is permanent. It takes cues from similarly unforgiving titles like XCOM and Fire Emblem while preserving the deceptive simplicity of Advance Wars. As in FTL, the graphics are 16-bit sprites, and musician Ben Prunty returns to score a swelling-yet-somber soundtrack. But what sets Subset's new game apart is brilliant novelty: You know exactly how and where every enemy is going to attack. This turns the game into a puzzle, since your first priority is to preserve buildings and the people inside them, only obliterating the bug scum when possible.


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I bought this yesterday, but only manged to get in 30 mins or so of game time. So far, so good :).

A friend described it as Starship troopers meets Chess, which sounds about right!
 

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A friend described it as Starship troopers meets Chess, which sounds about right!

:lol::lol::lol:

Might give it a go this week, it looks really good. This video shows how it works if anyone is interested:

 

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Had a go earlier and so far I think I like it even MORE than FTL :eek:

Definitely recommended :thumb:
 
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