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Games like Into the Breach

If Into the Breach is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bionic Dues, Rogue Waters and Anomaly Collapse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modular mech customization, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Into the Breach: 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.

2018StrategyIndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 90Windows · macOS · Linuxby Subset Games
Into the Breach — Steam game cover
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Modular mech customizationTactical positioning mattersWriting quality is exceptionalBrutalChallengingEnvironment interaction

Players who liked Into the Breach also play

Steam players who put hours into Into the Breach also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Bionic Dues

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Top pick for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.

    2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Rogue Waters

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Second-strongest match for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Into the Breach.

    Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Anomaly Collapse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Third-strongest match for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Command a squad of adorably fierce warriors in Anomaly Collapse, a turn-based Roguelite strategy game that offers a fresh twist to an old formula! Face off against otherworldly beings and uncover the dark secrets of supernatural calamities. Immerse yourself in a story where every move counts!

    2024StrategyIndie13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Star Renegades

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Ranked #4 for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Mech Armada

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Ranked #5 for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

    2022StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Ranked #6 for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Xenonauts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Othercide

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Into the Breach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.

    2020StrategyIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Into the Breach

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. FTL: Faster Than Light

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Pit People®

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Invisible, Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Shares roguelike elements with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. For The King

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. X-COM: UFO Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares tactical positioning with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Into the Breach.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wargroove

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Reviewers of Into the Breach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!

    2019StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Into the Breach at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Into the Breach.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Into the Breach.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Into the Breach.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Into the Breach.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with Into the Breach.

    Priced ~58% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Breach.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Into the Breach on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Into the Breach.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Into the Breach.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Into the Breach.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Into the Breach.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Into the Breach.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Into the Breach.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Into the Breach.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Into the Breach.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Into the Breach.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Into the Breach

Is Into the Breach verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Into the Breach is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Into the Breach cost?
Into the Breach is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Into the Breach?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Into the Breach are Bionic Dues, Rogue Waters, Anomaly Collapse.
Who developed Into the Breach?
Into the Breach was developed by Subset Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Into the Breach.

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