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Breachway
Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Fun card combat” (58 of 104 reviews) and “Frequent active updates” (16); the most common complaint is “Repetitive combat loop” (29). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
58 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“This game has improved vastly during early access. This game is different from other deck builders - each card has to cool down in the discard pile before it can be drawn again. It is possible to burn through all your…”
“TL;DR; Keep it in your wish list to try it out later Game is currently unplayable for me. Any time I start a new game, whether windowed, fullscreen, either but with different resolutions, whatever ship and setup, it…”
“This game has really gotten good over the course of EA. It's also different enough from other rogue like deck builders to be interesting. The modules like weapons basically have their own decks that combine to form your…”
16 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The devs have been regularly updating the game which is great because when I first started playing this i really struggled with making it past the first sector. But I just beat sector 3, everything seems pretty well…”
“Nice deck builder roguelike, cleary FTL inspired, but with better graphics, no crew micro-management. There's potential to grow given its still in Early Access and I cant wait to see what it ends up being.”
“Loads of improvement since ea launch. In a decent place now.”
15 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I was sure I was going to like this game. Looks great, solid idea, but terrible execution, UI, and pacing make this a huge disappointment. All you had to do was more playtesting and design iterations, I'm sure you would…”
“Nice deck builder roguelike, cleary FTL inspired, but with better graphics, no crew micro-management. There's potential to grow given its still in Early Access and I cant wait to see what it ends up being.”
“I really want to recommend this game, but in the end, it's a "No". I love FTL and roguelikes... this started off strong. Great visuals, fantastic idea for the mechanics all around... however, it got so repetitive and…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“TL;DR; Keep it in your wish list to try it out later Game is currently unplayable for me. Any time I start a new game, whether windowed, fullscreen, either but with different resolutions, whatever ship and setup, it…”
“This game has really gotten good over the course of EA. It's also different enough from other rogue like deck builders to be interesting. The modules like weapons basically have their own decks that combine to form your…”
“Very Fun and with lot's of depth. The combination of different equipment categorys (each with differnt subcategorys and cards) makes this a very fun game. I haven't (yet) beaten it either which makes me (a little)…”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“This is a really good, addictive, fun and challenging game. I cant wait to see what new things come as the development progresses. Already now worth the price. Highly recommend.”
“From a generic standpoint of is this worth your money, I would say yes to people who play roguelike deckbuilders. If you are new to this genre there are better options to start off with. If on sale I very much say try…”
29 of the 104 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“Very poorly balanced Act 3 boss, which debuffs you and you just lose unless you know what you're facing. poorly balanced upgrade system that punishes you for not knowing the mechanics beforehand. And even less enjoyable…”
“Bottom line - not recommended because it wasn't fun, I refunded after slightly more than an hour of play time. Combat is extremely repetitive and to me it's rather boring and overly simplistic. Encounters that aren't…”
14 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“First of all, I only say NO for one reason The year and a half of access to this game and it still having game crashing bugs... I enjoy the gameplay, concept, and general aesthetic of this game This issues, of having to…”
“TL;DR; Keep it in your wish list to try it out later Game is currently unplayable for me. Any time I start a new game, whether windowed, fullscreen, either but with different resolutions, whatever ship and setup, it…”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“First of all, I only say NO for one reason The year and a half of access to this game and it still having game crashing bugs... I enjoy the gameplay, concept, and general aesthetic of this game This issues, of having to…”
“Very poorly balanced Act 3 boss, which debuffs you and you just lose unless you know what you're facing. poorly balanced upgrade system that punishes you for not knowing the mechanics beforehand. And even less enjoyable…”
“Bottom line - not recommended because it wasn't fun, I refunded after slightly more than an hour of play time. Combat is extremely repetitive and to me it's rather boring and overly simplistic. Encounters that aren't…”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Very poorly balanced Act 3 boss, which debuffs you and you just lose unless you know what you're facing. poorly balanced upgrade system that punishes you for not knowing the mechanics beforehand. And even less enjoyable…”
“Overall design is pretty unique and there are a lot of good ideas, but a lot of the encounters are just frustrating, unfun and long.”
“- The game is easy to understand, not complicated. - The first run is already really hard. It makes me feel like is this all the game has? Don’t they want players to experience anything cool early on? I don’t get why I…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Bottom line - not recommended because it wasn't fun, I refunded after slightly more than an hour of play time. Combat is extremely repetitive and to me it's rather boring and overly simplistic. Encounters that aren't…”
“The tutorial was promising, but after that the storytelling felt nonexistent, the combat become very repetitive and boring especially when most of the map nodes just turn out to be combat or combat in disguise. You'll…”
“I was sure I was going to like this game. Looks great, solid idea, but terrible execution, UI, and pacing make this a huge disappointment. All you had to do was more playtesting and design iterations, I'm sure you would…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 75.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“The game came out two years ago. It still crashes after combat. I have an i9 processor, 64 GB of RAM, and a 5070ti graphics card.”
— a player, Steam review · 102 hrs played“FTL + Slay the Spire. I love both of those, so I got quite excited when I discovered this one. Played a few runs and had a blast. I could definitely feel that the game is still in Early Access, but I still felt it was well balanced and challenging. Highly recommend, but I…”
— a player, Steam review · 41 hrs played“Add me to the list of reluctant thumbs-downers. I'm on a big Rogue-lite kick currently, it's a genre that I really enjoy. I also really like 4x space games. I feel like the 4x flavoring in the game is solid, but the core R-L loop is (six hours in) not that much fun. Battles feel…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Experimental Branch: Sector 1 Enemy Redesign
Hey everyone, The first big piece of the enemy redesign we talked about in our last dev update is ready for testing: every enemy in Sector 1 has been rebuilt , from the first fights of a run through t
Experimental branch update - hacking and engineering bay design pass
Hey, a new test build is out, with the Hacking and Engineering bay design pass, some new cards, a new Lancer starting equipment. Main Changes: Hacking has been simplified, security is no longer consum
Save 50% Off on Breachway
Dive into the tactical space battles of Breachway at a 50% discount! Breachway combines deck-building strategy with turn-based combat, allowing you to customize your ship, manage resources, and face c
Patch #36 - Map Improvements, simpler Shred + Ignite, Pulse Laser changes
Hey everyone, a short update this week: an important save fix for demo players, a simpler Shred and Ignite rule, some map quality-of-life, and a round of Pulse Laser changes to broaden its synergies w
Breachway localization update + small balance changes
Updated localization, cleaned up some old outdated translations for existing concepts such as Shred Updated tips, some were deprecated Fixed scale of the run end and run won screen (they were scaled d
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Strategy · Space · Simulation · Sci-fi · Management · Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy · War · Sandbox · 4X · Tactical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian * |
| Achievements | 24 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4160 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X4 965 (quad-core) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7850 (2 GB) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space