Into The Breach - The "ANTI-DOOM" Game 

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"Into the Breach is the Anti-Doom" **Has flashbacks to all the destroyed mechas in Doom Eternal that look eerily-similar to the ones in this game**

Oh now I want an "Into the Breach"-like game but in Doom Eternal timeline, where the ARC giant mech units are desperately fighting against the Hell legions, protecting whatever's left of humanity.

"This mission of ours is really like a big game of violent chess, when you think about it." - Harold Schmidt, mech pilot, "Into The Breach", actual in-game quote

Surprizingly, this game has given me more internal rage than Doom Eternal

Doom is a fast paced FPS game about staying moving, keeping at higher health, and slaughtering your enemies, but also about using everything you have at your disposal and adapting to your enemies. Into The Breach is a slow, methodical turn-based strategy game about deciding whether it's better to take the hit or avoid it, to lose one building to reduce overwhelming threat or risk them turning on you after, and completing as many main and secondary objectives as possible, but also about using everything at your disposal and adapting to your enemies. They're remarkably different games on the surface, but they share some of the same secondary skill set.

This is too weird... I downloaded eternal 2 weeks ago based on your recommendation. Last night I download into the breach as a break, something to play on the side. Now I wake up and see this video. You read my mind

My Anit-Doom game is Senran Kagura I still get to rip n tear

This game is slow, but imagine it in real time. You hit the bug so fast it gets pushed aside, and it still swings, like being pushed away at the last second. This is badass.

This game is incredible on switch because the turn based combat lends itself very well to portability. I was doing campaigns on my commute taking a few minutes at each transport interchange to think of my next move.

with "Into the Breach" i have a small motto. "There is ALWAYS a way". I genuinely believe that so long as you keep your enemy spawns in check and don't allow eight or more enemies to exist on the board at once, then the game's A.I. intentionally directs the enemies to always take actions with at least one flawless solution. i say this as i've almost always found them to some capacity. so long as there aren't too many Vek in play at once, then there is always a way to get away scott free.

Man I'm impressed how you expose the game mechanics better than any RU-vid ad or trailer I ever seen. I have the game but never had any interest playing it until I saw your video and I'm grateful for it, this game reminds me alot of Final Fantasy Tactics but more tactical and punishing, I like it.

I'd describe Into The Breach as "Elegant". It just has so much game in it and yet it is such a simple, cheap, light and quick game. So much with so little.

After completing Doom Eternal with only one crystal and praetor suit perk this seems like the perfect game to unwind with. Kinda gives me those old Advance Wars feels. Love this style of breakdown man!

I played Noita sometimes, good game for me to chill out

Into the Breach is an absolute masterpiece of game design. It can stand proudly among the most mechanically perfect games of all time. So elegant, yet so deep. Big props on the video too. You expressed what's compelling about the game in a really eloquent way, breaking everything down in a clear and logical manner. Subscribed!

As a HUGE fan of XCOM, this game looks MADE for me.

It's free on epic rn if anyone is reading this around the 4th of September 2020 ^^

Yes, please, give this amazing game more attention. It's my go-to when It's late, nobody else is on, and I can just go and squash some bugs for a few hours before going to bed.

This game is phenomenal, even more so with the recent free update. They basically doubled the number of mechs mechs and veks

Ironically, I bought this game at the same time as doom 2016

"Every time they fail against the enemy, they can use time travel to try again" - Sounds like Edge of Tomorrow, but even more from the human perspective (yes, I'm aware of the powers Tom Cruise had. I'm speaking meta about the Mimics).

last time i was this fast, my body didn't even manifest

When I found this game I had just finished xcom 2 and I had a xcom sized hole in my heart so I did not judge this game fairly. I never played it but upon reading about it I thought it wasn't worth it. My strategy games need fancy animations and complicated turn based systems. Now that I see it for what it is I definitely want to give it a go now.

Anyone reading this: *GET THIS GAME*. It's short, simple, swift, and so, so satisfying. The quickness of each game and the variety of mechs (and pilots, and optional equipment, and achievements to go after) means tons of replayability. And when I mention "replayability" I really do mean *you will want to play again*.

Man, you didn't even touch on my favorite move: pushing enemies who attack first into position to kill enemies later in the sequence with their own attacks, thereby protecting the targets. This game is such a good strategy game with very little rng.

Neat. This game is actually available for free on the Epic Games store right now. I picked it up before work and now I'm really looking forward to playing when I get home in the morning :)

I appreciate the detailed walkthrough!! Great quality. Thanks again.

Thanks for giving me the final push I needed. I've always theoretically loved everything about Into The Breach: the mechanics, the complexity, the art: I've read and watched tons of reviews and behind the scenes videos on this game but never actually purchased or played it because I don't usually enjoy turn based games. However I recentlu got a switch lite and have been looking for good games to play on the go, your video brought the game back to mind and I ended up getting it for the switch. I've been playing it for the past few hours and am absolutely in love with it. Thank you for shining the spotlight on gems lite this. I dont know however if I'd call it the Anti Doom: Hugo Martin has referred to Doom Eternal as combat chess, I cant think of a better way to describe Into The Breach than combat chess: Into the Breach and Doom Eternal are more like two very different versions of the same game.

What a fantastic way to showcase a game. Great video, you should do more with this format. I don't usually like these kind of games but this video convinced me to try it out.

This video was really good at highlighting a lot of the different things that can go down in a match!

Have well into 300 hours of Into The Breach. Ben Prunty's work on the soundtrack is amazing and even if you don't like the game itself, the OST is a pleasure to listen. 'Rusty Hulks' is one of my favorite tracks. Achievements plus OST plus gameplay is addictive and easy to grasp BUT requires some 3d Chess thinking and you'll definitely keep coming back.

I only discovered this youtuber recently - when he posted his much-needed "In defense of the Marauder" video - but the more I see his videos, the more I love! He has good takes on games and their mechanics, and talks about things I never hear others talk about. I'm super excited to see where this channel goes, your videos are just superb! ^-^

I really like this video because it seems to give a very good introduction to the basic mechanics of Into the Breach. You did a great job. I've never been a fan of Zenith Guard. To me, they're the hardest mech squad to use because I had a hard time finishing a game with them on normal (where-as I've finished a 2, 3, and 4 island victory with all the other squads, save the secret squad, on hard). My three favourite squads, in no particular order, are Rusting Hulks, Flame Behemoths, and Hazardous Mechs.

This is a REALLY good video. i Never got into the game all that much but this video alone makes me want to. please continue to make videos like this. Just a video of you thinking and talking about games.

I like your way of presenting the games in such a calm way. Nice to watch and interesting games!

Your video have the top notch quality, such a underrated channel.

I stumbled across your channel whilst looking for tips for beating eternal on nightmare, I was immediately saddened by the fact that I hadn’t done so earlier. Your content is great and the effort you put in shows. Thank you for the content and keep up the good work. I’ll be buying this game now! Always loved rts/grid games.

Fun fact, if you get all the objectives on every mission you do on an island, failing none, you will get an additional bonus reward upon the completion of the island. I have found that due to the extra supplies you can get from the stars, including grid power and the 100% objective bonus, it is often better to take a grid damage to ensure an objective while completing the island, as the bonus will more than pay for that damage once the island is complete

Very happy to see this game getting more love. I felt like it got overshadowed when it came out due to people wanting something more like FTL 2 from Subset. This game is the very embodiment of simple, less is more, elegant design.

ITB: Being smart in a really simple, braindead way. Eternal: Being a trigger happy jerkoff, with thought put in. Hugo: Both games have mechs, so I'm down.

I love the way you narrate your thought process

That was shockingly accurate and I like the phase of pondering over how the heck you are going to get out of the mess you walked into. Sometimes it is even that you have to sacrifice something and I am impressed by the game, that even a building going down that I could not save somehow hurts. It means something to sacrifice in this game, to me at least.

hopefully the doom DLC get good music still bumbed out about what happened with mick gordan ans the ost

You briefly showed it in the very last clip, but one of the fun things about the game is making the enemies attack each other. Because they determine how they’re going to attack before your turn, you can move them so that they kill each other. Attack order becomes especially important when doing that, because it could be the difference between a bug attacking a building, then being killed by another bug, or the bug being killed and not being able to hurt the building.

im enjoying this channel before it blows up

Ill have to check this out

Thanks for reminding me about this game. I saw a trailer way back in the day for this, but then somehow forgot about it. Definitely gonna grab this. Thank you.

Awesome analysis and video! Congrats on the new sub (me).

Best description ever!

I like how you left the enemies damaging each other until the very end of the video

Just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to this game. Decided to try it out and I have been playing it non-stop. Love your videos!!

7:01: As far as big picture plays are concerned, in my view the 3xp from the scorpion really isn't worth leaving the two hornets alive. Instead, I would've punched the hornet attacking the left-hand satellite (killing it), shot the scarab into the left-hand satellite (also killing it), and hit the hornet attacking the building with the artillery shot (killing it because the forest would catch fire, causing a second point of damage to the hornet before it can carry out its attack, as environmental damage always happens before Vek damage). Your pilots generally level-up quickly enough that going for xp at the cost of putting yourself into an inferior strategic position is almost never necessary. - 9:06: The reset mechanic is why my favourite pilot is actually Isaac (who gives you one extra use of reset turn per battle). Every other pilot makes your mechs better, but he makes the _player_ better by further increasing your leeway for making mistakes, experimenting - all the stuff you mentioned, really. He's also the perfect pilot to playtest modded squadrons with, because that way you are using only their baseline potential (not their baseline potential plus some potentially game-breaking extra), but are getting the absolute most out of that potential because of the extra reset, letting you gauge how balanced the mod-squad is as accurately as possible. - 9:38: And _that's_ why leaving the hornets alive was ill-advised. This goes for any Vek really, but hornets especially have a habit of flying themselves into some _amazingly_ inconvenient spots. - 11:00: And indeed, those two hornets are still alive as of the end of the battle. So whilst you gained 3xp for killing the scorpion the satellite launch would otherwise have killed, you essentially robbed Peter to pay Paul by losing out on the 4xp for killing those two hornets. - 13:21: These plays at the end, on the other hand, are suitably galaxy-brained. Kudos for showing those off. In the boss battle, I would've put the artillery mech in front of the building rather than behind it, but that's a nitpick.

love how the home depot theme is just playing in the backround

This feels like a promotional gameplay video. An amazingly done promotional gameplay video. And it describes my thoughts from the first hour or two pretty accurately)

Love your channel man. It's nice to see long videos on relatively small games like this and you seem to have the same preference for games that set gameplay and atmosphere before graphics. If you shouldnt know them, I'd highly recommend hyperlight drifter and children of morta to you. These are also exquisit!

Dude you need to play this in a long play and do more explanation vids. This held my attention.

Ooo thanks for showing me this.

Camila Vera is MVP

This game is so so good. I bought it on a friend's recommendation, and actually kind of hated it at first because of its deceptively difficult nature. But once you hit your stride it becomes really fascinating and addicting. I wound up basically 100%-ing it (though I haven't beaten everything on Hard yet) because I just didn't want to be done with it. My favorite game of the past five years, easily.

Free on EGS for this week. Didn't thought of playing the game but after watching you describe the game I thought I should play.

Thank you sir. This is exactly what I was looking for to see if I was interested in this game. I am!

Super good explanation!

This game was hard to figure out, and even when you do, after you play each move you'll be slapping your forehead once the enemy moves lol

This is amazing. You should do more instructive let's plays like this.

This looks very interesting. Thanks for introducing me to this.

This was great, thank you for your review

This video was straight to the point, I love it

I downloaded this game after this vidya and it’s sooo good, truly a masterpiece. My computer(or shall I sat, my compshiter) can’t handle any new games so I haven’t really played any the last like five years, but this game for me really excited, thanks for the tio! Subbed for good measure.

Although I haven't played this game for a ton of hours, I do love it and I think it's the most perfect game I have ever played. Into the Beach is criminally overlooked and I'm always so happy to see it get some attention! Also, I recently started playing this again when I found out there were a ton of mods. People have made some really awesome squads, definitely try them out!

I'm not a huge fan of turn based strategy games,but I swear that every single game you recommended and presented I'm genuinely interested in,and you know why that is? Is because you are explaining and showing and that's genius!!!!since it makes all the difference in the world,keep up the good job,and on a side note and thanks to you mostly I learn to deal and have fun with Marauders,so thanks for that!!

I’ve always seen this at the front of FTL just curious about it, but never planning to get it. You just changed my mind brother, next time it’s for cheap and I got spare cash it’s going into this

Into the Breach was (and continues to be) fantastic. Fights in Tight Spaces scratches a lot of the same itches, while also having the deck building that I personally love.

This is such a good video. Its so concise and helpful. I'll be recommending it to anyone who wants to play the game

Congratulations, you got one more subscriber!

Normally i don't fw games like this but your explanation is really good and you made it seem interesting 👍

You’ve just convinced me to buy this game. I love your videos, keep up the great work!

Every time you have one of these videos and I buy one of these games im usually too stupid to figure it out. But it is interesting to watch you play them.

I would love to watch a full play through

I love into the breach, its like a much slower paced Muv-Luv (silly name, awesome grimdark scifi story) because the focus isn't annihilate the enemy, its minimise damage and survive. You can't take the enemy in a head on fight because they outnumber you 100:1 so capitalise on the few advantages you do have. I love that kind of asymmetric gameplay.

Great video : ) I've been getting more into turn based games lately and this looks really good.

i like you, you talk about games how my uncle teached me gaming when i was a youngling

I got mine via the Windows 10 Microsoft Store. Also, this video only talks about the starter mechs. You can unlock other teams of mechs with really varied and even crazy abilities (the starter team are the "Rift Walkers"). My favorite so far are the Rusting Hulks.

Getting all of the achievements in this game is one of my finest gaming accomplishments right up there with Spelunky, Meat Boy, and getting a PS5 at launch.

This reminds me of Fights in Tight Spaces.

I got this game early last year on my Switch and fell in love with it HARD. When I built a PC this year, it was one of the first games I installed. So many hours of game right here.

This looks perfect. My biggest annoyance with tactical games is not being able to see if I'm in range to attack after moving. This go back mechanic looks brilliant

6:57 and there's still a better set of move that kills everything, only for 1 damage for the other satellite. Pretty cool.

Thats got to be a perfect blend of puzzle and turn based rts

This is such a good channel

So like edge of tommorow but with meches and controllable time travel than the move.

Good review brah.

Huge thing about this game is that it doesn't move bugs randomly. Somehow it manages to calculate their movement so that unless you already lost a mech, you're _guaranteed_ to prevent all grid damage in any turn with any set of weapons (spawns are random though). It may require to trade some mech damage sometimes, but grid always can be safe, if you're good enough in this game. Saying that with 130 hours in and 5 perfect 4-islands runs with all different squads, without taking a single point of grid damage, including the final encounter. Don't know how did they managed to program this, but it's such a great work. It's crazy engaging, because every time I lose, I _know_ that it's not random decided to screw me up, but it's _my_ own mistake, and if I'll get better, it won't happen. A masterpiece of tactic games.

Hands down, Into the Breach is one of my favourite games of all time, with FTL being my overall favourite. Subset Games has done some outstanding work, if you haven't played any of their games, try one!

I would only ask for the units to show some walking animation from point A to point B, but I guess that'd be a drag to wait for every move

12:36 The only thing that I could read when it popped up was Blitzkrieg.

I think I just watched an entire slap-chop ad...

I'd love to see more Mech/Pacific Rim kinda games

Really cool video. This game is so cool i can't wait to play it

Very good, this game is actually interesting, Thanks Mayo