Tactical Breach Wizards
Released: 8/22/2024
Score Breakdown
87.7
Critic Average
17 reviews
98
Steam User Score
11,294 reviews
81
Metacritic User Score
66 reviews
Disparity Breakdown
88 vs 98
88 vs 81
Average of both sources
Review Disparities
Each point represents a critic review. Hover for details. Positive = critic higher than users. Negative = critic lower.
9/25/2024
Launch Window“Tactical Breach Wizards shines with its charming, laid-back approach to the tactical genre. While not the most demanding game in terms of challenge, it leaves plenty of room for players to shape their experience as they wish. The dynamic progression system and skill flexibility encourage creativity, while allowing each player to develop unique strategies in the face of enemies.This title, while approachable and accessible, especially for those short on time, also has a promising future thanks to the integration of user-generated content. Tactical RPG fans will find here a refreshingly modern experience, rooted in a wacky and irresistible sense of humor, but above all imbued with a rare sincerity.”
90
90/100
9/20/2024
Launch Window“Tactical Breach Wizards is a standout strategy game imbued with a ton of personality in its writing and characters, excellent combat, and a constantly exciting thrill ride.”
80
80/100
9/12/2024
Launch Window“Tactical Breach Wizards surprised me very positively and I feel very confident in recommending it to anyone who enjoys turn-based strategy games that think outside the box. If you are also curious about what it would be like to control super soldiers capable of using magical powers (or dangerously armed wizards, which is the same thing), do yourself a favor and get this work by Suspicious Development. Although I don't have the same clairvoyance as a certain protagonist, I can bet that you won't regret it.”
90
90/100
80
80/100
9/5/2024
Launch Window“Tactical Breach Wizards is a fantastic game that is less “must own” and more “why haven’t you bought this yet?” kind of turn-based tactics games. Those looking for something a little different will have that here, in spades. With its unique blend of strategy, humor, and character, it’s a game that is both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Tactical Breach Wizards is accessible, brilliant, and most of all: Game of the Year contender.”
100
100/100
9/4/2024
Launch Window“Despite boring story segments, this game finds great humor and ultra-malleable gameplay that breathes fresh air into tactics games.”
80
80/100
8/26/2024
Launch Window“My ultimate takeaway from Tactical Breach Wizards is that I simply didn't expect it be so refreshing.”
85
85/100
8/23/2024
Launch Window“Suspicious Developments' latest builds a witty, wonderfully generous adventure around a smart, rewarding, and endlessly imaginative turn-based tactics core.”
100
100/100
8/20/2024
Early Review“Luckily, though, you’ll spend much of Tactical Breach Wizards in the heat of battle, and that’s where it functions best. Few of the scenarios are difficult, and intentionally so; the game is less about raw challenge than having you experiment in pursuit of efficiency and style. Many of the optional, more difficult objectives encourage you to squeeze 15 actions into a single turn or complete a map without letting the enemy ever fire a shot, which means constantly refreshing your actions and movements several times per turn. Even when the characters are patiently waiting their turn, there’s always a remarkable sense of speed to Tactical Breach Wizards.”
80
80/100
8/20/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards deftly blends deep tactical gameplay that rewards experimentation with sharply-written dialogue and characters bursting with personality”
80
80/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards uses great writing, genuinely well-executed humor, and subversive takes on genre gameplay and pairs it with a super unique setting to make what is one of my favorite new titles.”
100
100/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards is full of magical charm, with inventive skills and characters that make it hard not to get entranced in its spell.”
80
80/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards review: Excellent turn-based tactical combat wrapped up in a joyful, tightly-written story.”
88
88/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards is one of the cleverest and most enjoyable tactics games I've played in a long old time. A handful of useful features remove some of the genre's most frustrating pain points, and the forgiving structure lets you experiment with all manner of off-the-wall solutions, even if there really is just one ideal path forward. It's a blueprint for how tactics games should be designed, and I can't wait to dive back into it again.”
90
90/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“Tactical Breach Wizards delivers a fresh and addicting tactical experience. Using an array of awesome spells, there are limitless ways to complete the mission, making for a very inventive experience.”
80
80/100
8/19/2024
Early Review“While I wish it was a tad more punishing, I still had a blast orchestrating complicated turns that involved teleporting allies across the map, utilizing diverse powers, and, of course, knocking hapless cronies out windows. But, perhaps its greatest accomplishment is how it escapes the inertia of countless other modern war games that feel like the product of the military-industrial complex. I guess all it took to avoid these tropes was not being in the back pocket of the US armed forces, a bit of empathy, and a guy who looks like Gandalf with a magic-infused M16. Who knew?.”
87
87/100
