Breachway release date confirmed for August 2024

For real this time, pinky promise
Edgeflow Studio / Hooded Horse

Hooded Horse and Edgeflow Studio announced that Breachway will be released into Early Access on August 30, 2024, on PC.

Initially scheduled for launch earlier this year, Breachway was delayed to ensure a more stable experience for players as well as to implement fixes and features based on feedback gathered from Steam Next Fest in February 2024, during which the game managed to get among the top 50 most-played demos.

Breachway is essentially the love child of FTL and Slay the Spire: a roguelike deck-builder with exciting tactical turn-based space combat.

The Early Access launch will contain four different playable ship types, which all come with their own layouts, synergies, bonuses, and initial faction standings, which all contribute to runs being distinct from each other. More than 200 cards will be available to build your decks with and there will be several unique characters to recruit into your crew, giving your ship different abilities to be used in battle.

The galaxy map will feature two distincts regions with their own enemies and events. In these areas of space, four unique factions rule the stars and can become great allies or deadly foes, depending on your decisions.

Being a roguelike, each run awards you with points towards your meta progression – which includes unlockable bonuses, modules, and ship variants.

It’s currently unclear how long Early Access will last, but with games like Against the Storm and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic under its belt, Hooded Horse is seasoned in regards to refining raw gems and delivering them into 1.0 as certified jewels.


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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg