Breach & Clear

Breach & Clear Review: The 2013 Squad-Tactics Classic, Freed From GameClub

Four Operators, One Plan, Everything Happens at Once

The design is simultaneous-turn tactics: you draw each operator's route and field of fire on a top-down map — split the team between entry points, set who breaches and who covers — then press go and watch the plan resolve in real time from a third-person camera before planning the next few seconds. The squads are real units with their own skill sets, the enemies vary in ability, and soldiers level, take perks and equip camo, armour and thousands of weapon combinations; the tactics come from the Special Operations community, and the door work — different breaching techniques for different rooms — is the game's signature. A rewind button replays each turn, as Gun Media reminds an August 27, 2026 Play reviewer who asked for one. An August 27 five-star with three votes calls it 10 out of 10 and wants more realism and a full-mission replay; an August 7 two-star calls the gameplay smooth, highly strategic and fun before listing what the port lacks.

What a Catalogue Title Means: No Cloud Saves, Thin Tutorial, No New Content

Gun Media's replies set expectations plainly: this is a re-upload of an old title, bare-bones for saves and features that did not exist when it was first released, and there are no plans for additional content. The August 7 two-star's specifics follow from that — not enough instruction for anything, though a tutorial section exists, and no cloud save, so switching squads or devices means starting over. The App Store's three reviews tell the ownership story: an August 31 five-star was sad to see the game go to GameClub and glad to have it back in the original hands now that the subscription is gone; an August 24 one-star, who bought the game a decade ago and still plays that copy on an iPad, objects that the old version now shows a GameClub pop-up — the old app's problem, not this release's.

Free, With Silver and Doublers From $1.99 — No Ads, No Data

The game is free and every formerly premium feature is included; the in-app purchases are the 2013 economy's optional shortcuts — a Permanent XP Doubler and Permanent Silver Doubler at $1.99, silver in pallets, payloads, supply drops, shipments and a cache from $1.99 to $19.99, and squad patches (Intelligence, FTL, Medic) at $1.99 — with Google Play's range at $0.99 to $19.99. There is no advertising, and neither store's data card lists anything collected. The iOS build is 1.92 GB and requires iOS 16 or later, with iPad and Apple Silicon Macs; Android needs only 5.1 — the game is thirteen years old and runs on almost anything. English only; rated Teen and 13+. Two months in it shows 1,000-plus installs and 48 reviews at 4.4 on Play, seven App Store ratings at 4.3. Prices are regional.