Tactical Breach Wizards

An incredibly enjoyable tactical experience. You control a team of wizard characters as they breach and clear various locations on a globetrotting quest to stop the world's most dangerous rogue operative from basically taking over the world. Each of the five characters you get access to have unique abilities and skillsets. There's Jen, who has a strong focus on mobility with two upgrades that refresh her move and the ability to teleport from one window to another. Her skillset has a heavy emphasis on pushing, allowing you to deal impact damage that ignores armor or push enemies out of windows for instant kills. Zan has a mix of utility that lets him waste enemy attacks, give actions to allies, and provide supportive fire in several ways. Other characters are a bit more spoilery so I'll focus on those two for examples. From about three abilities per character you get an incredible array of strategic intracacies. For example, Zan's predictive shot cannot be aimed directy at an enemy, but will only fire if an enemy crosses the beam... or if the beam crosses an enemy. If the enemy in question can't be moved, Jen can use her main attack to shove Zan into position. With five total characters you can imagine just how wild your strategies can get. I once killed a heavy enemy by phasing a charge attack through them to an enemy behind, then using a redirect ability to transfer the knockback back onto said heavy enemy, knocking them into my own character to gain enough impact damage to kill them. There's a built-in undo mechanic; at any time you can reverse an action, all the way back to the start of your turn. As long as you don't end your turn you can keep trying different approaches to things to find the most efficient one. There's a significant story focus too. It's not exactly lighthearted (the stakes are set very early; a world war that kills tens of thousands if you don't stop the evil plot) but it doesn't take itself seriously all the time either. It's not everyone's kind of humor but I definitely enjoyed it. The game offers two standard difficulties and a custom difficulty. There's easy and hard, hard removes a lot of the sources of mana (which fuels at least one ability on each character - typically the strongest ones) and increases enemy damage and reinforcement count. I recently finished a re-playthrough on hard and it was quite an enjoyable challenge. Custom lets you set the parameters individually, so if you didn't like the increased reinforcements or the lack of mana you can turn those off individually, and it provides some other optional settings for even more (or less) of a challenge. Speaking of challenge, almost every level comes with some optional "confidence goals" which are little bonus objectives usually revolving around using abilities effectively or being efficient in general. They give points that are used to unlock new outfits for your characters, and are nice little puzzles to complete. You can also always come back to a level later with more perks to make the challenges easier, as some aren't possible without certain perks. There's also a built-in level editor and community workshop for even more content to play through. Ignoring that, expect a campaign time of about 15 hours.

Scratches that Fire Emblem itch with a great sense of humour and fun characters. And magical assault rifles.

Had this game on wishlist for ages, finally got it, it is incredible innovative on the game genre as a whole Amazing design in terms of levels, character and gameplay THE most unique game in the genre i have played in a long time

Здесь нет "Шанс попадания 95%". Здесь есть Окно. Окно никогда не предаст

Really fun game! However, before you buy you must know this is a puzzle game far more than it is a turn based strategy game, but it's a really fun puzzle game! Especially if you go for the bonus objectives there's some really good brain teasers in there, and if you don't there's still a fantastic artstyle and satisfying combat. The one thing that might be hit or miss for some is the writing, personally I find it funny, but I can see the constant humor getting annoying for some.

Игра в целом не плохая, но у неё есть огромный косяк, который может сделать прохождение утомительным. Но давайте по порядку) Мне понравился сеттинг, очень необычно и свежо. Волшебный спецназ, сами понимаете - редкая лошадка) Геймплей приятный, не напряжный, есть кое-какие недочёты по интерфейсу, не всегда удачно считывается инфа, но не критично. А вот сюжет и персонажи - вот где кроется главная проблема. Ладно, чёрт с ним с сюжетом, он более-менее стандартный, а вот то как подаётся информация, как общаются герои - вот это та ещё блевота. Поймите меня правильно - я не моралист и не против дерзких, саркастичных и "типо глубоких" нетакусиков-персонажей. Но, не каждый вообще персонаж в игре! Твою мать, там нет личностей, каждый сраный герой, злодей, да вообще кто угодно - это гиперактивный подросток. Постоянные неуместные шуточки, сарказм течёт рекой и повсеместные попытки казаться простыми и приземлёнными. На этом фоне любая история будет казаться идиотской. Меру знать надо! После каждой миссии - словесный понос, да там даже есть отдельные миссии про диалоги, там нет геймплея. И ладно бы они всё изначально выворачивали в стиль Дэдпула, но нет, они хотят Миссия Невыполнима... Это тупо не работает. В общем - это раздражало меня всю игру и я просто хочу поделиться этим. Но помните, всё можно скипать, и вообще не заморачиваться, ничего от этого не потеряете)

I have been tricked into playing a puzzle game. This games vibes are off the chart. Really fun humor, deep puzzle gameplay. I think this is my favorite turn based combat now. It was into the breach before but I don't love roguelikes so handcrafted levels here really improves things.

Tactical Breach Wizards is a game whose Steam rating is misleading because it benefits highly from the ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ binary. It’s a solid, competent game, whose trailers and description clearly showcase what the game is about, both mechanically (grid-based puzzle game) and tonally (quippy). So I would say it’s a rock solid 7/10, which can be tough to give a thumbs-down to. The problem, then, is that rock solid 7/10 leads to a 97% thumbs-up that gets interpreted as a 9.7/10. This game ain’t that. Even if you decide to buy this game, you should not go into it expecting something at that level. It doesn’t have the spectacle or the depth or the aesthetics or the ingenious design or anything else you would associate with a 9/10 or a 10/10 video game. Instead let me offer a simple decision path for whether you should purchase this game: Have you played Into the Breach? If not, go play that one first. If so, next question: Do you want to play more of Into the Breach? If not, do not play this game. If so, then consider playing this game, as the mechanics and aesthetic do offer some fresh aspects to this type of game. That’s it. I wish I had realized the similarity before I played this game past its refund window. Because I wasn’t a huge fan of Into the Breach for much the same reason I’m not a fan of Tactical Breach Wizards. I find the gameplay superficial and unengaging. The problem is that when you have a completely deterministic puzzle game, highly constrained to a handful of actions within a grid-based gaming board, with essentially unlimited and friction-less rewinds, then the gameplay has no stakes, no surprise, no shocking moments, no real sense of discovery and wonder. It just feels like work to me: I’m doing something I already know I’ve mastered and have no real chance of failure but the work’s still gotta get done. Pretty much the opposite of what I’m looking for in a game. You may be different.