Breachway

Breachway

Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 42, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
15h
Value
$0.67/hr
Reviews
76% of 1,523 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Skip$19.99

Today

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Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.67/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $1.33/hr
Holding it back
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds8 of 662 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7850 (2 GB), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

22 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heart of the Machine ($8.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Xenonauts 2 ($19.99, scores 39).

More about Breachway

Of the 662 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 6 of 124 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

78% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Cool game. Good strategic game. Plays like a card game/board game IRL. I like the upgrade paths.
FlameOfWrathRecommendedafter 3.5hSep 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Really glad I found this one. It is am early access title, but have been wanting a game just like this for a while. In progress: There are some technical issues with text and menus here and there (but not breaking in my experience and the controller support still needs polish (but is definitely workable, esp with the ease of using the trackpad on steam deck for tooltips and such). Well developed: The core gameplay...
theconstermonsterRecommendedafter 8.0hSep 2026early accessRead on Steam
Early Access Review, date 9/7/2026 Roguelike starship card battler, basically. In its current state I managed to beat an entire run in around 3.5 hours, after several retries of course, and there's very little in the way of narrative content/story to tide one over. I like how the travel isn't as restrictive as this sort of thing usually is (no wave of enemies approaching from behind, but the blue path can only go...
SabaithalNot recommendedafter 3.5hSep 2026early accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Breachway scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2118810/breachway
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEdgeflow Studio
PublisherHooded Horse
GenreRPG
Released2024
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24