Post-apocalyptic chess with time travel, collapsing worlds and tanks the size of skyscrapers: any summary of Into the Breach makes it sound like the most over-complicated game in the world. But remarkably, this lunch break-friendly and charmingly chunky turn-based war game strips away so much of the stuffiness and over-complexity of the strategy game genre, without sacrificing what makes pitching armies against each other in the comforting blue glow of a monitor so endlessly tense and captivating. Where other strategy games can require oppressively long-term construction, resource management and formation, in Into the Breach you live moment to moment, turn to turn. There is an element of the precision and finesse more commonly associated with a Nintendo title than a PC strategy game here, which is all the more impressive given that mission layouts are randomly generated. Into the Breach is challenging enough to make you regularly howl in fury, but only at your own errors.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2018 12:11 UTC