To your later point: I never played FTL, but a pixel-art turn-based kaiju-killing tactics game was just too awesome to pass up.
And it runs perfectly under Wineskin on my Mac :)
And it runs perfectly under Wineskin on my Mac :)
Also the final boss in FTL was way more fun than in this game
Not so fun for me, never managed to beat it after 3-4 tries, on easy difficulty while fully upgraded. I think that part could use a redesign, it's what made me loose interest in the game...although overall I think it's a great game.
So you are right, it's not noob friendly. On the other hand, it's one of the most sublimely balanced roguelikes.
First few runs I got confused on the final boss map, ended up going to rebel controlled territory, escaping into final boss with a extremely unprepared / damaged ship.
I ended up having to unlock several more powerful ships and beat it via the starter Mantis ship (no weapons starting off + 2 mantises). On my first successful run, I had a double charge II laser, a lvl3 defense II drone, and a 4 man warp pad, so the final boss ended up being pretty easy with solid focus fire damage, boarding, and defense.
I think I have 1 win to my name on normal difficulty (not counting the crystal ship, which is clearly overpowered). I find the only way I can reliably do well on normal difficulty is to take a lot of early risks and then just restart if I don't get lucky.
Into the breach kind of lacked roguelike RNG to the extent that every run more or less felt the same, so I ended up unlocking everything I wanted to after 3 days of playing. You also had infinite amounts of time to decide on actions in intoTheBreach, so there was no sense of urgency and it ended up becoming super easy to beat.
Beating it on 1 try was a little disappointing for me. I had higher hopes for intoTheBreach
Works perfectly.