Into the Breach
BANGER · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $2.58/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Must support OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Intel HD 3000 or better., 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in August 2025. It has been discounted 64 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, Gladiator Guild Manager ($14.99, scores 54) and The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 842 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 9.1 times as much.
At 5.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
74% start to 49% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
285 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
Its like chess. but with cool ♥♥♥ robots but also it makes you feel like an idiot
Easily replayable and fun to pickup and play even if you only have a couple minutes to spare. It can be unforgiving but easily addictive, very good game to run on the deck and the controls work well with gamepad.
cool PvE turn-based game, its kind of shallow and short but has good replayability and its pleasant to play
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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Into the Breach scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/590380/into-the-breachThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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