Into The Breach creators almost gave up before cutting metagame down

Splendid streamlined strategy game Into The Breach was almost our favouritest favourite game of 2018, delighting with its honed focus on big robots smashing bugs in turn-based tactical action. It was once a far bigger, more complex game than that, mind, with a sprawling metagame of research trees and rebuilding the last cities of Earth and… it didn’t work. These work-in-progress versions worked so badly that creators Subset Games have revealed they almost gave up on the game entirely. Thankfully, in this timeline they cut all that back down and successfully finished making the game.

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