I was up to like 2am last night playing it, it rules so much.

It's gonna get compared to FTL a lot which is not really fair, cause FTL is the starship captain simulator that people had been waiting to play for years and years and a developer isn't going to hit a goldmine like that more than once lol. But yea, in every other way I think ITB is better.

There is not a single interaction I had in the game that wasn't interesting in some way! I love the battles, I love making loadouts, I love that there's not a lot of dialog but it's all really good, like the feel of the game is really well thought out. The campaign design is genius, the way things carry over between campaigns is genius, it's just all really really good!

I feel like I've just scratched the surface. At the start of a new round you select a new team of three mechs, and they come in sets of three. Each mech can do cool things, but has specific weaknesses, and the sets they come in synergize if you can figure out how to make them work together. This encourages you play in completely different ways, and it always shocks me what new things they can think up.

Maybe there's some flaws like later on that I'll dig up? Like I don't like that unlocking new squads requires earning achievements, which is a pain, I hate having to play to achievements. But I've unlocked most of those naturally so far so it's worked out.

Anyway!! It's a good game!! Here's where to buy it!