6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Into The Breach. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Into The Breach.
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Platforms: Android
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
1 Bit Survivor is an adventure survival game about driving your car across a country in the aftermath of an unstoppable virus. It stands out for its limited colours and simple-to-play hard-to-master playstyle. But really this is a game that's great...
Release Date: 13/03/2015
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. is a turn-based strategy game where an elite group of soldiers (inspired by characters from American literature) defend earth from alien invaders in an alternate steam-powered future. While it sounds wacky, there's a surprising...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather
Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions is a puzzle game where you guide pirate ships to do pirate-ship-type things. You play by placing instructions and interactive items in the path of the ships so that when you press play, they sail to their destination and...
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Not Chess is a puzzle game similar to Chess, but you only have one piece, which morphs into whatever piece you take. It's a simple way of getting to grips with some of the basic rules of chess in a low-pressure, single-player environment, while also...
Release Date: 24/09/2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. You build a deck of different pieces and use them in battles
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
This is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
38 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Into The Breach. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Into The Breach.
Release Date: 06/02/2014
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Threes is a puzzle game where you slide numbered tiles on a grid. When they collide they combine their numbers, like Triple Town. You can match 1's and 2's with each other, the white tiles can match cards that are multiples of 3...
Release Date: 16/11/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Pixels
Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...
Release Date: 30/08/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
868-HACK is a puzzle game where you hack a computer program to collect as much data as you can. It's a unique puzzle as collecting data triggers more enemies to appear so you walk a delicate balance between collecting as much as possible, but not so...
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM style game for younger players.
Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Release Date: 29/08/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a chess-like strategy game where you control cartoon rabbits (the Rabbids) and Nintendo characters in turn-based battles with fantastical weapons through four different worlds.
Release Date: 01/01/1994, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
X-Com (which became XCOM) is a science fiction strategic battle game where you control units to stop an alien invasion. The long running series has come in many forms, but always has in common the finely tuned turn-based ground combat where you control...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Sons of Valhalla is a strategy base building game. You play the son of a Viking Jarl aiming to conquer England and save the love of your life. Like Kingdom, you incrementally upgrade your fortifications, farming and armies to defend...
Release Date: 18/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Weather
Stormbound is a strategic battle game combining Chess and Clash Of Clans gameplay. You build an army by earning cards for different units, defences and abilities. These have to be carefully chosen to do well in the battles...
Release Date: 14/01/2014, updated in 2016
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
The Banner Saga is a beautiful fantasy adventure where your strategic choices directly affect your personal story and the world around you. You play as two characters, each with their own related story.
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...
Release Date: 08/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Ikenfell is a turn based role play game where you use timing to power spells and block attacks. You explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, a bit like Harry Potter, fight monsters and uncover hidden treasure and dark secrets.
Release Date: 25/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Open World
King Pins is a small real time strategy game where you command a small group of people to gather resources, build bases, farms and towers to defend yourself or attack the three other encampments. It's like Age of Empires but in miniature fashion....
Release Date: 01/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
No Plan B is a tactical role-play game where you plan missions to neutralise various threats. Unusually, you don't directly control your team during the action. Instead, you plan orders for them ahead of time then watch as they execute your commands in...
Release Date: 30/08/2016
Platforms: PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a game based on the choose-your-own-adventure books from the 90's.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Project Timi: Sasha's curse is a rhythmic platform game where you lay traps and defeat enemies in time to the beat. Set inside a small child's dream, you need to save Lucity Town from the nightmares and restore peace in a unique combination of puzzles,...
Release Date: 21/08/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Tenderfoot Tactics is a role play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Auto Chess is a strategy game where you set-up automated actions to gain a competitive advantage. As you play you purchase units that will battle for you, each unit has different attributes that can collaborate with other units. The goal ultimately is...
Release Date: 18/05/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Imbroglio is a puzzle game where you take a character into a dungeon and progress by collecting stars. The twist is that combat is focused not only your abilities but the tile you are standing on when you attack. Although each character has different...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Tactical Breach Wizards is a small-scale, turn-based fighting and shooting game. You play a team of wizards in modern-day tactical gear, breaching and clearing rooms full of enemies with a combination of guns, abilities and spells.
Release Date: 20/04/1990, updated in 2023
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, GBA, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid
Fire Emblem is a series of strategy games where you help an ensemble cast of characters fight off evil. You gather heroes, unlock weapons and special abilities to aid your fight in tactical turn-based combat. It's not just a tactics game though, just as...
Release Date: 24/05/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Floppy Knights is an adventure where you battle enemies using cards and turn-based strategy. With your robot, Carlton, and a group of virtual knights, you must liberate your town from hostile invaders. It looks like Advance Wars but has a unique blend...
Release Date: 14/09/2012, updated in 2014
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy. Unusually, you have complete control of every function of your ship and must manage systems, crew and scenarios. It's a hard...
Release Date: 02/09/1994, updated in 2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Live A Live is a remake of the 1994 game released only in Japan, it's a fighting role-playing game where you play seven characters across time in unique stories. In each, you defeat enemies in tactical turn-based fights where each attack has a distinct...
Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...
Release Date: 21/04/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rymdkapsel is a strategy game where you command a stylised space station filled with minions. You make decisions about to spend your manpower and expand your space station. It's minimalist and intentionally opaque to understand, but through multiple...
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
Release Date: 12/01/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
Tharsis is a tough strategy-simulation game where you must survive a doomed mission to Mars. You roll dice whose outcome can either help repair the ship or make things worse by injuring crew mates or causing further damage. The dice foreground the...
Release Date: 04/03/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Triangle Strategy is an action role-playing game that combines a complex branching plot with grid-based battles like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars. It stands out not only for its unusual diorama visuals, but by creating an intertwining story of many...
Release Date: 14/11/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Twinfold is a puzzle fighting game played in a small maze. You move around the maze with your square character merging into golden baby cubes to gain energy and squashing angry enemy cubes.
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
After Midnight is a small puzzle-style role play game where you lead a team of animal medics to contain a virus outbreak in a hospital. It's a simple game that offers a window into the life of a health worker. Subsidised by the National Centre for...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Chezzle is similar to chess, but here you only have one piece that changes to whatever you take. It features a relaxing soundscape and encouraging messages, and allows you to get the grips of the rules of chess at your own pace while also creating a...
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Dungeon and Puzzle is a puzzle adventure game where you move through rooms, using your limited number of turns to defeat the monsters, unlock doors and (hopefully) escape. In a novel twist on the format, the monsters don't attack, they merely block your...
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Inkulinati is a strategy game where you fight an opponent using medieval drawings. Using a range of weapons, attacks, defences and abilities, you move your characters, based on real medieval drawings, around the page to defeat enemies as a story about...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Wandering Sword is a combat-focused role-play game where you traverse ancient China with a band of swordsmen to master the highest forms of martial arts. You explore the countryside, towns and cities to bond with townspeople and recruit warriors to help...
Release Date: 07/10/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Beglitched is a puzzle game that combines Candy Crush's matching with Minesweeper's mapping challenges in missions where you foil computer hackers. Play is first traversing the computer network grid and then taking on hackers in match-three puzzles when...
Release Date: 06/01/2014, updated in 2023
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Kingdom Rush is a strategy tower defence game where you defend your kingdom against waves of orcs, trolls and evil wizards. You do this by placing (and developing) your arsenal of towers and spells to kill them before they reach you.
Release Date: 20/01/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Dice and Grid
Luckitown is a turn-based strategy game. You build a town around your castle to defend it from incoming enemies. You then roll dice and select combinations of results that allow you to buy and place defensive buildings while every turn the enemies move...
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