Battle Breakers
Battle Breakers blended tactical, grid-based battles with a playful mashup of fantasy and sci-fi. You built a roster of heroes and pushed back a kingdom-wide invasion of alien monsters, relying on smart positioning, elemental tricks, and over-the-top abilities rather than pure stat checks.
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Publisher: Epic Games Type: Tactics RPG Release Date: November 13, 2019 Shut Down: December 30, 2022 Pros: +Bright, memorable art direction. +Built with Unreal Engine 4. +Fun fantasy and sci-fi crossover theme. Cons: -Stiff-looking animations. -Interface can feel awkward to navigate. |
Battle Breakers Shut Down on December 30, 2022
Battle Breakers Overview
Battle Breakers is a tactics RPG where you command a small team of heroes against an invading force of space monsters. Built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, it leans hard into a colorful, cartoon-styled presentation that keeps combat readable even when the screen fills with effects. The core loop revolves around collecting characters with distinct roles and gimmicks (including everything from ninjas and robots to dinosaurs), then deploying them onto a grid to clear encounters across a threatened kingdom.
Battles emphasize positioning and ability timing. Elemental powers are a big part of the fantasy, letting you turn the tide with dramatic effects like waves, quakes, and scorching storms when you line up the right play. Outside of fights, progression comes from strengthening and evolving heroes to keep pace with tougher stages. There is also a base-style upgrade track through the Sky Tower, which serves as a long-term way to improve your overall readiness and hold out longer against the ongoing invasion.
Battle Breakers Key Features:
- Unreal Engine 4 – powered by Unreal Engine 4, Battle Breakers delivers a polished, animated cartoon look.
- Tactics Gameplay – grid combat that rewards smart movement, planning, and well-timed skill use.
- Various Champions – a wide roster of oddball heroes, ranging from dinosaurs to ninjas.
- Cross Platform – available on PC as well as mobile devices.
- Hero Evolution – grow your team by evolving heroes to boost power and stay competitive in later content.
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Battle Breakers Review
Battle Breakers aimed to be an approachable tactics RPG that you could play in short bursts, and at its best it succeeded thanks to its clean grid combat and strong visual identity. The game’s biggest hook was the roster, it was hard not to enjoy the sheer variety of hero concepts, and building squads around different synergies gave the experience a collectible, team-building appeal similar to other hero-focused RPGs.
Moment to moment, the tactical layer is the highlight. Encounters generally encourage you to think about where to stand, which targets to prioritize, and when to spend your strongest abilities. The elemental flair adds a satisfying layer of spectacle, and the bright art direction keeps the tone light even when the game is throwing “end of the world” threats at you. The Unreal Engine 4 foundation helps the game look crisp, especially for something designed to work on phones as well as PC.
Progression leans on familiar free-to-play structure: you recruit heroes, improve them over time, and rely on upgrades and evolution to push into harder stages. The Sky Tower upgrades provide a sense of steady account growth beyond any single character, which is useful in a roster-based game where your lineup can change frequently. For players who enjoy optimizing teams and steadily climbing through content, Battle Breakers had an easy rhythm to settle into.
Where it stumbled was feel and usability. Some animations can come across as rigid, which slightly undercuts the impact of attacks and skills during longer play sessions. The interface also has rough edges, menus and navigation can feel more cumbersome than they should, particularly when you are frequently swapping heroes, managing upgrades, or moving between modes. Those issues do not erase the fun of the core combat, but they do add friction around the parts you interact with most.
Overall, Battle Breakers was a bright, character-driven tactics RPG with a playful setting and a solid foundation, especially if you enjoyed collecting heroes and experimenting with squad setups. Its shutdown on December 30, 2022 means it now stands as a short-lived Epic Games project, remembered more for its style and roster charm than for long-term staying power.
Battle Breakers Links
Battle Breakers Official Site
Battle Breakers Google Play
Battle Breakers iTunes App Store
Battle Breakers System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: Android 4.1/ iOS 7.0
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Battle Breakers Additional Information
Developer: Epic Games
Publisher: Epic Games
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s): iOS, Android, PC
Announcement Date: February 22, 2017
Release Date: November 13, 2019
Shut Down: December 30, 2022
Development History / Background:
Battle Breakers was a free-to-play tactics RPG released for PC and mobile platforms, developed and published by Epic Games. It was first revealed on February 22, 2017 during the Google Developer Day keynote at the Game Developers Conference. Using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, the project focused on delivering a vibrant, cross-platform experience. Battle Breakers officially launched on November 13, 2019, and its online services later ended when the game shut down on December 30, 2022.