"Mecha BREAK is a decent mech game, albeit one that suffers from a failing community and a ghastly portrayal of female characters."
Amazing Seasun Games are not the first, and certainly will not be the last, publisher to make the mistake of trying to attract the worst elements of gaming in an effort to secure the success of their title. Unfortunately, the gaming industry is volatile, and trying to launch a live service title is not only costly but potentially ruinous.
This means developers are forced to try and improve their odds of success by appealing to certain demographics. Sometimes this can be achieved in good ways, such as focusing on an underrepresented region or culture, which can result in above-average sales in what would have otherwise been a less important release.
Unfortunately, at other times, it means appealing to less savoury demographics, be it perverts, racists, sexists, or white supremacists.
While Amazing Seasun Games have made no moves to appeal to three of the four of the above less savoury elements, they have unfortunately leaned heavily into making the female characters as sexual as possible, to the point that they are distractingly out of place.
A perfect example is the difference between the male and female pilot uniforms. Males wear more traditional sci-fi pilot gear, while female pilots wear suits that are so tight they literally appear painted on, to the point the developers have had to apply “discreet patches” of micro-armour over genitals to avoid a much higher age rating.
On that note, I have no idea how Mecha BREAK managed to get away with a PEGI 12 rating considering the hyper-sexualised nature of its female characters. However, when you see that titles such as The First Descendant and Vindictus somehow managed the same rating, it is hardly that surprising.
As someone who has a lot of respect for PEGI, I am not sure why so many live service titles get away with including content in PEGI 12 games that would traditionally warrant a much higher rating if they were sold as singleplayer titles.
I genuinely feel sorry for the developers at Amazing Seasun Games. They have gambled (and lost) on the perverted neckbeard audience, and as a result, lost the vast majority of normal gamers who would have otherwise enjoyed playing Mecha BREAK.
I am not a prude, and I am not opposed to “sexy character skins,” but when every character is portrayed like a walking sex doll, and the game includes gratuitous fanservice, including a literal shower scene showing the player character naked behind misted glass, I cannot help but feel they have put all their eggs in the wrong basket.
Especially when a quick look at the abysmally low player counts shows that no matter how amazing a game is, the vast majority of players do not wish to play or support a title that portrays 50% of the human race as cosplaying strippers.
While some would dismiss this as “boys being boys” or “harmless fun,” causing people to become addicted to sexual content is never a joke, and it is something that Jesus Christ Himself addressed in The Gospels.
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. - Matthew 5:28-30
Further, He addresses the issue of tempting children to sin (Matthew 18:6) by saying that it would be better to drown than to lead a child astray.
Even if you are not religious, anyone with even an ounce of decency must admit that protecting minors from such content is desirable, something which is incredibly difficult when games such as Mecha BREAK somehow are awarded a PEGI 12+ rating despite containing far more sexualised female character outfits than many PEGI 18 games.
Mecha BREAK looks fantastic, and gameplay is buttery smooth, which makes its abysmal portrayal of female characters all the more disappointing. It is the type of game I would love to play and recommend to others; however, I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone, especially female friends, when it reduces women to boobs, butts, and a pretty face.
While Mecha BREAK is not dead yet, and the developer could still turn it around by introducing clothing options for female characters that are less exploitative, at this point in time Mecha BREAK is firmly locked into a death spiral. Which is a pity, as the gameplay is fun, and while it’s hardly unique and mostly rehashes modes common to the shooter genre, each Striker (mech suit) feels different enough that almost every playstyle is supported.
In a perfect world, Season 2 would place more emphasis on cool sci-fi costumes for both male and female characters and less on making women as sexy as possible. Combined with more free customisation options and a few new maps, Amazing Seasun Games would have a good chance of making Mecha BREAK a viable product. However, if that does not happen, I am not sure Mecha BREAK will even be a blip on the radar 12 months from now.
Mecha BREAK is a free-to-play first person shooter game developed and published by Amazing Seasun Games, it released on 1 July 2025, and is available on PC and Xbox Series X|S.
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Mecha BREAK is a difficult title to review. The mech-based gameplay is rock-solid, and the visuals are fantastic, yet the way it portrays female characters is abysmal, and its community has all but evaporated, with the launch-day peaks of 100k+ players feeling like a distant memory as Mecha BREAK struggles to reach 9k on Steam with the launch of Season 1 in September 2025.
While the Steam community is only part of the equation, and the perks offered to Xbox Game Pass subscribers may have resulted in an abnormal number of players using the Xbox PC app over Steam, there is little reason to believe that is the case, especially when you take into consideration how long it takes to find full matches when playing ranked modes.
Ultimately, it’s not a bad game, and matchmaking for now is still pretty quick for unranked modes, but with player counts dwindling at worst and stagnating at best, I cannot see Mecha BREAK being supported much past the end of 2026 unless something changes, and that’s assuming it even makes it that far.
We found Mecha BREAK to be a good game, meaning it is likely to be enjoyable for most players, despite having a few areas that could be improved upon.
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