“Are you sure about that... ...is this safe?” “It is perfectly safe, Mills. Don’t worry about it!” You execute your cunning battle plan and see private Mills run along the road, only to be cut down by machinegun fire - again. How many times do you force him down this path, before you let him rest in peace? Will you cut your losses and accept defeat, before your delusions of reliving the war over and over again drives you truly insane?

Broken Lines is a story-rich simultaneous turn-based tactical game, with a rogue-inspired structure.

In this alternate version of WWII, enemies are both mysterious military units and the soldiers’ own hopes and fears as they confront the mental and physical horrors of war during their struggle to return to friendly territory.

Broken Lines combines a tactical-RPG playstyle with a “pause and play” format. This offers players more fluid and realistic gameplay with the action automatically pausing when new dangers appear, allowing the player to respond to the new tactical situation.

Play the campaign with randomized missions and non-linear stories with a lot of atmosphere (a bit like FTL/Sunless Sea/Darkest Dungeon). Select and equip your squad, train them in unique combat skills and perks, plan your turn in pause mode and see it play out in real time. Use cover and flanking to overcome the opposition, rewind the level to achieve a better score and loot, manage resources and survive until the rescue-team can extract you.

You play a newly appointed lieutenant leading a disorderly squad, fighting for survival in a fictive war in Eastern Europe. Shellshocked and without combat experience, you struggle with leading your men while keeping your marbles. In your mind you experiences the combat scenarios again and again, allowing you to correct your mistakes, but also driving you further towards madness. Should you sacrifice your sanity to save your men or stay sane and watch them die?

This new video focuses on the game’s narrative elements, showcasing character interactions and their effects on both the game world and the characters themselves: a squad of British soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines in an alternate-history WWII.

You need to make the hard choices for these brave souls, as they battle both the enemies in front of them and the enemies within themselves. Whether they are battle-hardened veterans or green recruits, each soldier brings their own attitudes, beliefs, and personal baggage to the battlefield. You must deal with these, and make the most of their combat skills, as you fight to bring them home.

Key Features:

• Turn based planning with simultaneous execution
• Tactical depth - suppression, destructible cover, camouflage, stat checks etc.
• Pay sanity and rewind/retry levels to get higher scores and better loot drops.
• Many special unlockable weapons and abilities (smoke, flashbangs, mines, decoys, mortar strikes, spotter dogs, portable cover etc.)
• Rogue-like structure with ongoing story

Broken Lines will launch in Q1 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PC, (no further details on the previously announced PS4 and Xbox One versions).