Tactical Breach Wizards puts the magic into military tactics games

Assemble a crew of navy seers and necro medics to take down a dictatorship in a spellbinding new game inspired by XCOM, but without the punishment

We're only just over half way through the year, but Tactical Breach Wizards is already a contender for best video game title of 2024. At once exquisitely silly and decidedly practical, the name neatly reflects the intent behind this magically infused turn-based tactics game. Putting you in command of a sorcerous SEAL team that uses guns and spells to fight through puzzle-like scenarios, Tactical Breach Wizards combines a decade-old joke with a desire to solve a problem particular to genre which inspired it.

It came out of playing XCOM a lot, especially XCOM 2," says Tom Francis, director at Suspicious Developments and creator of acclaimed titles Gunpoint and Heat Signature. Loving that game in so many ways, but also being very frustrated by the many ways you can misunderstand things and not realise a rule, and just lose irreplaceable troops or suffer catastrophic losses."