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Into the Breach cover art

Into the Breach

Subset Games · 2018-02-27

SteamGOGEpic Games StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 19, 2022 (Android), Jul 19, 2022 (iOS), Feb 27, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2020 (Linux), Dec 01, 2020 (Google Stadia), Aug 28, 2018 (Nintendo Switch)

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.

Into the Breach is an Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2018, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 22346 reviews).

197
playing now
94%
positive of 22k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (269 ratings)
10
Nexus mods (4.6k downloads)
88/100
opencritic · mighty · 88% recommend · from 73 critics
12h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

197 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by indie studio Subset Games, consisting of Jay Ma and Matthew Davis. Into the Breach is their second game, following FTL: Faster Than Light. It features writing by Chris Avellone and music composed by Ben Prunty. It was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2018, for macOS and Nintendo Switch in August 2018, and for Linux in April 2020. A version for iOS and Android mobile devices was published by Netflix in July 2022.

Trailer

Into the Breach trailer thumbnail

Into the Breach Official Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 197 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 893 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~112/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 49,650 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 562k–1.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 22,497 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.49-70%
GOG$14.99
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-08-30) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 81 of 122 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20182026Week of 2018-02-01: 602 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1,517 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 859 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 527 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 375 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4831972026-09-15 12:00 — 450 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 483 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 399 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 426 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 455 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 358 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 247 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 339 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 300 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 280 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 334 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 205 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 206 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 328 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 271 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 215 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 288 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 296 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 214 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 265 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 326 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 232 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 197 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4.4k0Feb 2017Aug 2026Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2018 — avg 467 · peak 12,944May 2018 — avg 459 · peak 959Aug 2018 — avg 460 · peak 1,227Nov 2018 — avg 353 · peak 975Feb 2019 — avg 514 · peak 1,092May 2019 — avg 281 · peak 495Aug 2019 — avg 268 · peak 476Nov 2019 — avg 271 · peak 628Feb 2020 — avg 270 · peak 515May 2020 — avg 357 · peak 585Aug 2020 — avg 283 · peak 437Nov 2020 — avg 285 · peak 537Feb 2021 — avg 259 · peak 487May 2021 — avg 245 · peak 440Aug 2021 — avg 289 · peak 426Nov 2021 — avg 321 · peak 593Feb 2022 — avg 258 · peak 419May 2022 — avg 253 · peak 466Aug 2022 — avg 924 · peak 2,122Nov 2022 — avg 303 · peak 484Feb 2023 — avg 293 · peak 504May 2023 — avg 216 · peak 331Aug 2023 — avg 270 · peak 458Nov 2023 — avg 234 · peak 411Feb 2024 — avg 218 · peak 371May 2024 — avg 228 · peak 435Aug 2024 — avg 240 · peak 417Nov 2024 — avg 210 · peak 318Feb 2025 — avg 216 · peak 336May 2025 — avg 222 · peak 421Aug 2025 — avg 247 · peak 1,356Nov 2025 — avg 241 · peak 378Feb 2026 — avg 264 · peak 472May 2026 — avg 184 · peak 320Aug 2026 — avg 214 · peak 333
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
46462026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 46 new positive2026-09-21: 7 new negative2026-09-22: 7 new positive2026-09-22: 2 new negative2026-09-23: 4 new positive2026-09-24: 4 new positive2026-09-26: 5 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 5 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new positive2026-09-30: 8 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 3 new positive2026-10-04: 10 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 5 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 6 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-12: 9 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 3 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 1 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$0.002018-02-272026-10-142018-02-27 — best price $14.992018-10-01 — best price $11.992018-12-08 — best price $14.992019-04-04 — best price $10.042019-07-08 — best price $14.992019-12-11 — best price $7.492020-01-14 — best price $7.492020-04-13 — best price $7.492020-06-26 — best price $7.492020-09-12 — best price $14.992020-12-13 — best price $14.992021-02-25 — best price $14.992021-06-28 — best price $14.992021-10-18 — best price $7.492021-12-04 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-05-19 — best price $3.742022-07-28 — best price $14.992023-01-03 — best price $14.992023-05-10 — best price $14.992023-09-12 — best price $7.492024-01-05 — best price $14.992024-04-18 — best price $14.992024-07-29 — best price $7.492024-12-02 — best price $14.992025-02-10 — best price $7.492025-04-08 — best price $5.242025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-06 — best price $14.992025-10-23 — best price $5.992025-12-14 — best price $14.992026-02-23 — best price $14.992026-03-30 — best price $2.992026-05-06 — best price $6.002026-07-16 — best price $4.492026-08-28 — best price $5.252026-09-09 — best price $2.992026-09-21 — best price $14.992026-10-03 — best price $4.492026-10-14 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

253942026-05-31 — 141 pageviews2026-06-04 — 138 pageviews2026-06-08 — 158 pageviews2026-06-12 — 103 pageviews2026-06-16 — 127 pageviews2026-06-20 — 110 pageviews2026-06-24 — 104 pageviews2026-06-28 — 253 pageviews2026-07-02 — 111 pageviews2026-07-06 — 127 pageviews2026-07-10 — 127 pageviews2026-07-14 — 107 pageviews2026-07-18 — 119 pageviews2026-07-22 — 134 pageviews2026-07-26 — 137 pageviews2026-07-30 — 133 pageviews2026-08-03 — 118 pageviews2026-08-07 — 121 pageviews2026-08-11 — 109 pageviews2026-08-15 — 138 pageviews2026-08-19 — 98 pageviews2026-08-23 — 120 pageviews2026-08-27 — 129 pageviews2026-08-31 — 117 pageviews2026-09-04 — 157 pageviews2026-09-08 — 150 pageviews2026-09-12 — 146 pageviews2026-09-16 — 124 pageviews2026-09-20 — 161 pageviews2026-09-24 — 144 pageviews2026-09-28 — 155 pageviews2026-10-02 — 134 pageviews2026-10-06 — 109 pageviews2026-10-09 — 136 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1202026-10-01 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-03 01:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
74.7%
earned "Island Secure"
16.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

16 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Korean…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-02-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)25,3774%70
Switch (Nintendo)6330%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

IndieMechsPuzzleSci-fiStrategyTacticalIsometricRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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