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Into the Breach

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

Battle monsters and level up your dicey heroes in this roguelike strategy game.

Strategically plant trees to create regions of similar shape and color.

Deliver batteries to your robot pals without snagging your power cable on spiky enemies.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

Explore a world of mystery, color, energy, and movement with knowledge-based progression.

Help DadHog bring his hedgehog children home by sticking together (literally) and rotating through grid-based puzzles.

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

Split and merge to rescue your Starpuffs in this simultaneous-movement puzzler.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

Linux

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Windows

iPad

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