Tactical Breach Wizards

Brilliantly written, witty, with an engrossing story and a fantastic world. Tactical Breach Wizards is an incredible turn-based game that hooks you effortlessly, combining the very best the genre has to offer.

It’s a game in near-perfect balance, a lean and distinctly not mean ode to turn-based tactics that embraces the genre’s creative puzzling while repudiating its worst excesses. Tactical Breach Wizards lets you see the future, raise the dead, and burst through windows on a witch’s broom. Yet amid all that, its most powerful spell is empathy.

Tactical Breach Wizards masterfully blends the use of magic abilities with the tactics of a modern SWAT team. The gameplay is brilliantly clever, easy to pick up yet with a lot of depth. As an added bonus, the story and characters are highly engrossing, with well-written humour and an interesting plot.

My ultimate takeaway from Tactical Breach Wizards is that I simply didn’t expect it be so refreshing.

Whatever tactics game you've enjoyed most in recent years, you're likely to find some element of it refracted somewhere in here. [Issue#402, p.116]

Tactical Breach Wizards is a wonderfully refined turn-based tactics game with fantastic humor and clever combat design that offers challenges for casual and hardcore players – and a lot of defenestrations.

A lack of content isn't an issue here as it might have been with Suspicious Developments first breakout hit, Gunpoint. Tactical Breach Wizards is the largest and most ambitious game the studio has worked on yet, and the extra time it took to get here has certainly not been wasted. It presents familiar tropes of the tactical turn-based genre and removes a lot of the friction that acts as a barrier to entry, without sacrificing the fundamental thrill of formulating a perfect turn and executing it. Coupled with an incredibly personable cast that is brought to life through witty and hilariously written dialogue, and you'll find it hard to resist the urge to breach into battle just one more time after each well-deserved victory.

Fun puzzle/tactic game with an engaging story. I wish there were more games like this

Cute, engaging, quirky mechanics keep it interesting - at least for a few hours.

Decent story. Decent gameplay. Would have been happier if it was a bit shorter. Date Completed: 2025-12-24 Playtime: 12h Enjoyment: 7/10 Recommendation: Yeah

For a game that offers your control over multiple different characters, each possessing multiple different abilities, it felt oddly restrictive. While you have various skills to play around with, there's always only one correct solution to each puzzle-location. I didn't much enjoy it. For me personally, tactical games in particular and video games in general are about freedom. Like "here's what you can do. Have fun!". Stuff like Into The Breach or FFTA2 are some good examples of that. This game offers no fun though. If anything, it feels like boring homework. Bang your head against the wall until you find the right solution. Uh... Yay? If that's your idea of fun, well, I don't know what to tell you. Other aspects of this game felt rather derivative and... inoffensive, I guess? The writing is your standard redditspeak affair - shallow, superficial, occasionally funny. The worldbuilding is barely an afterthought, as the writers basically make things up as they go. It's clear they were more interested in rofling rather than creating an enthralling narrative or any kind of cohesive lore. So, yeah, I'm not really sure where are these rave reviews coming from. I guess the devs won themselves some goodwill by making the game literally unfailable.

Not a tactical game, it's a puzzle game. Minus 9 points for lying to players. Also, it's terrible. Crashes frequently, looks bad, and there's no challenge since you just rewind until you win. Pointless.