It's a daunting task, but there is one central feature that makes this process enjoyable and manageable: Every action the enemy will make in their next attack phase is clearly telegraphed through the UI during your turn. Into The Breach is a tactics game with an emphasis on deterrence and creatively mitigating damage with the limited tools at your disposal. However, Vek almost always outnumber your squad, with even more continually spawning in, which makes wiping them out entirely a difficult task. In each region, your primary objective is to stop Vek from causing collateral damage-each civilian building destroyed depletes part of the game's overall power grid meter, and if it hits zero, your game is over. You command a squad of three mech pilots whose purpose is to deter the advances of the Vek, one region at a time, through four different island stages with the ultimate goal of destroying their hive. Humanity has also invented time-travel technology to give pilots the opportunity to go back in time and start the whole conflict over, should the worst happen. In a world where giant monsters called Vek threaten the earth, humanity has devised equally giant, human-operated mechs to combat them. The difference is that when the going gets tough, Into The Breach's turn-based mechanics and tactical tools allow you to improvise precisely, and respond purposefully, with perfectly choreographed counters in an aggressive ballet that feels amazing to conduct again and again. Into The Breach, Subset's sophomore effort, again has you enacting carefully planned strategies. In 2012, Subset Games released FTL-a strategy roguelite whose best moments were when everything worked like a well-oiled machine, but also when you were frantically trying to adapt to dangerous, unexpected situations in the spur of the moment. The update was written by Chris Pereira and can be seen below the original review by Edmond Tran. Jeditor's note: We have updated this review with consideration for Into the Breach's new Advanced Edition update and mobile version and altered the score from 9 to 10.

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