Breach & Clear
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.1h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any DirectX 9.0c Compatible Card from 2007 onwards., 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 87 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Battle Brothers ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Jagged Alliance - Back in Action ($19.99, scores 23).
2 of the 366 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 398 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.1 hours; clearing it takes 27, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
76% start to 1% rarestNo 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My review for this game is super overdue. I won't lie, I really think this is one of the best turn-based strategy games that is SWAT themed. It allows you to pick your own special forces team and then customize their perks (that give different and helpful bonuses) and equip them with your choice of weaponry (from shotguns to sniper rifles), and the weapons themselves can be customized (scopes, grips, even trigger...
Breach & Clear is a tactical strategy game that feels like XCOM in bite-sized, modern-military form. You plan your squad's movements, execute careful room-by-room entries, and manage loadouts with the kind of precision that makes every shot matter. The game shines in its tactical combat, giving you that satisfying "aha" moment when a perfectly timed breaching maneuver wipes out a room without a scratch. Beyond that...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Breach & Clear scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266130/breach-clearThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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