Recent reviews by Biffmotron

Tactical Breach Wizards is a tactical murder puzzler, most strongly similar to Into the Breach. You have a small squad of characters with unique special abilities, mostly some combination of damage and movement, and with these powers you clear maps of enemies, ideally by cleverly knocking them out of windows or into each other's lines of fire.

The gameplay is very good. Not quite as good as Into the Breach, which is **sublime**, but definitely better than XCOM and XCOM 2, which I enjoyed and also rate finely.

Tactical gameplay is a given. What I did not expect, and is incredible, is how good the writing is. From the basic premise of "special forces, but they're also wizards", the developers have crafted a glorious team of eccentric underdogs trying to stop World War 5. It's emotional, it's funny, and it's smart about the dangers of militarism.

Nebulous is a game for a very specific type of person. You might be that kind of person if you obsessively read Ender's Game, believe The Expanse has the best space battles put to film, and relax by reading about Soviet anti-ship missiles on Wikipedia.

In Neb, you build and command small fleets of ships, choosing everything from weapons to modules to the exact specifications of your missile load out. You fly them against other people, weaving through asteroid fields in a deadly game where the right ship heading is the difference between victory and a sudden defeat, trying to suss out the enemy in a wilderness of electronic ghosts and guided missiles. This game is crunchy as all hell. Ships are not exactly fast, so when you make a move you have to commit, but contact can be an APM-clickfest where moments matter.

Nebulous is not for everyone. But it's like someone reached into my dreams and made the perfect game. It's still in EA, so right now there's just multiplayer and a simple AI skirmish mode, but the first major update (missiles) was incredible, and the roadmap is ambitious. Skill curve is very high, so best start climbing the ladder now.