I want to make this review short because I need to go back playing Into The Breach. FTL was one of the most moreish games I ever had the (mis)fortune to stumble across, and accounts for dozens of afternoons, evenings and nights spent idly jumping between the stars and desperately trying to find a fire beam. Into The Breach has somehow perfected that formula that I didn’t realize wasn’t perfectible in the first place.

Into The Breach is a beautifully simple, instantly understandable game. You control three mechs, known as Riftwalkers, that have to battle the monstrous Vek destroying Earth. Just picture Pacific Rim and you have a pretty solid grasp of the story. The maps you fight in are small, comprised of an 8×8 grid in which every monster, mech and mountain take up one space. Inside this grid, despite its simplicity, is a world of variety, puzzle and satisfaction.