[2] Breach 3 is a real-time tactics game, in which the player navigates an armed squad through discrete missions.

It follows a pausable real-time structure,[1] and has been compared to titles such as Jagged Alliance and UFO: Enemy Unknown.

[3] Writing for PC Entertainment, Christopher Lindquist argued, "Breach 3's big problem is that the merc-gaming world has become much richer in the past couple of years, but Breach has not.

"[1] T. Liam McDonald of PC Gamer US was more positive.

Although he agreed that "not enough has been done" to update the series to then-current standards, he found Breach 3 "an entertaining return to the days when this was groundbreaking gameplay.