Into the Breach 9+

Ever since Into the Breach released on PC I wished for an IOS port. It’s small scale campaign and short battles made it a perfect fit for the platform. An excellent port of FTL, Subset’s previous title, only made me more hungry for another excellent game for my tablet. It’s been a long wait but it was worth it.

The game itself is a 180 to what FTL was - there is little to no RNG here - all enemy moves are telegraphed, and results of players action are guaranteed. All that is left is to figure out what the player has to do.

Unlike most tactics game, ItB revolves around defence, and that opens amount of choices player can make - killing an enemy is desirable, but moving enemy around, delaying spawning of incoming enemy, or tanking a hit with your unit are all valid and necessary solutions.

The downside is that I found the game to be less repayable then FTL and while still an excellent title, ItB doesn’t have the “story generator” aspect. Still, lots of fun to be found here. If you have Netflix you owe yourself to give this one a go.

I found this game while scrolling through the available games on Netflix, I downloaded and gave it a try. I’ve been absolutely loving it, its very well put together, good gameplay and hasn’t got boring or repetitive at all. But its logged me out about 3 times forcing me to sign back in with my Netflix account. This isn’t even when i open the game either, i will be mid mission and it kicks me out and asks for my login and password. Fix this. Its completely ruining a good gameplay experience.

This is the worst balanced game ever conjured. I’ve played Civ 5 & 6 on Deity for years, yet this game’s “easy” mode is neigh on impossible. The objectives for the level are designed so that you cannot get all (or even some of them) without playing in an EXTREMELY specific way, as in you would have to do exactly what the developers did when designing the level. What’s the fun in that when you have all that room to play around with? Ridiculous that I wasted my time trying to get all of the stars/objectives per level only to be slapped in the face with the developers’ blatant stupidity in trying to “balance” this game. Skip this and buy XCOM instead, that’s a game made by people who’ve actually played the product they made. Would give negative stars if possible.