Fit check
Is Broken Lines worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want a story-driven tactical RPG with branching campaign endings
- WWII strategy fans interested in an alternate-history Eastern European setting
- Squad tactics players who want supernatural enemies alongside human opponents
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking conventional turn-based movement where each soldier moves immediately after receiving a command
- Players wanting a purely historical WWII campaign without undead enemies or occult elements
- Players looking for large-scale warfare rather than a campaign centered on one stranded squad
Our take on Broken Lines
The tactical RPG label may suggest conventional turn-by-turn movement, but soldiers move during an action phase. The war setting also gives less prominence to the included expansion’s supernatural shift toward undead forces, occult mysteries, and inhuman bosses.
What is Broken Lines?
Broken Lines is a tactical role-playing game set during an alternate version of World War II.
After their aircraft comes down in Eastern Europe, a squad stranded beyond opposing forces must return home without intelligence or command assistance. Battles use turn-based tactics, with movement limited to the action phase. Decisions change the narrative and may lead to varied campaign conclusions. The included Dead and the Drunk expansion introduces a three-way conflict between human and undead combatants, occult questions, and monstrous bosses. Battlefield scouting lets soldiers draw the undead into fights with enemy troops before attacking the survivors. Drinking grants soldiers additional perks and abilities, combining squad tactics, narrative choices, and supernatural warfare.
How Broken Lines plays
- 01Branching Campaign
- Player decisions affect the story and can produce different campaign endings.
- 02Action-Phase Movement
- Soldiers move only when the action phase starts during combat.
- 03Undead Expansion
- The included expansion adds undead forces, occult mysteries, and inhuman bosses.
- 04Battlefield Manipulation
- Players can lure undead toward opposing forces before attacking weakened survivors.
- 05Drink-Based Abilities
- Soldiers gain perks and abilities as they drink.
Broken Lines compared to similar games
Men of War: Assault Squad focuses on large-scale WWII battles with direct control over individual units, while Broken Lines follows one stranded squad through a branching story and adds supernatural combat. Xenonauts centers on a multinational organization defending Earth from aliens and recovering technology, rather than Broken Lines’ alternate-history WWII setting and narrative campaign.
Broken Lines: platforms & release
Is Broken Lines worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want a story-driven tactical RPG with branching campaign endings. Skip it if: players seeking conventional turn-based movement where each soldier moves immediately after receiving a command.
Where can I download Broken Lines?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Broken Lines's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Broken Lines on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
