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Mecha Break is a third-person multiplayer game where players control mechs called Strikers in Ace Arena (3v3 PvP), Operation VERGE (6v6 PvP), and Operation STORM (PvPvE). Strikers engage in fast, frenetic, and pulse-pounding high-octane combat both in the air and on the ground in a world on the brink of collapse.
Mecha Break is free-to-play, featuring a character creator to allow players to create their perfect pilot. The game also boasts legendary pilots that are unlockable with their own backstories, motivations, and unique looks. Mecha BREAK launched with an all-time peak of 132,816 players on Steam, which was a substantially higher peak than Overwatch 2 saw when it was available on the same platform.
Mecha Break provides examples of the following tropes[]
- Ace Pilot: The "protagonist" pilots that each player gets to create aren't too shabby, but Mecha Break features unlockable "Ace Recruitment" pilots. The first one released, Leonie Fèvre, is an established Falcon pilot in the game's universe.
- Best Known for the Fanservice: A little zigzagged. The game is primarily about high-energy mech battles, but at the same time, a lot of people noticed how easy it was to make a hot pilot with the character creator.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: No one's going to mistake Mecha Break for Mortal Kombat. Hot girls may die in horrific and violent Striker explosions, but it's not like the beauties are shown being ripped apart in those explosions.
- Bloodless Carnage: Since the Strikers are just giant mechs, even when a pilot is killed inside of one, there's just a massive explosion which disintegrates the body completely.
- Character Customization: Mecha Break features an extensive character creator that can create gorgeous pilots, freakish abominations, and everything in between.
- Charged Attack: A good chunk of the available Strikers have attacks they can charge.
- Combat Stilettos: All the girls get a noticeable heel on their shoes. Fortunately, they'll be fighting in Strikers, so they don't need to worry so much about the practicality of wearing high heels into a battle.
- Ejection Seat: So long as a Striker isn't destroyed by an execution, the pilot will be able to quickly eject, and it's probably better to avoid thinking about the pilots that don't eject.
- Excuse Plot: There's a little bit of plot at the start of the game, but it's the bare minimum attempt to provide context for the game during the tutorial. Once the tutorial is done, the plot is largely thrown to the side.
- Fan Disservice: A little more tame example since you can't actually see any of the hot girls with their boobs bouncing around as they're disintegrated from their Strikers exploding, but those hot girls are still dying violently nonetheless.
- Finishing Move: The executions in the game are exactly that. If a player defeats another player, they have the option to perform a flashy and brutal execution on the fight's loser, usually resulting in some form of dismemberment of the Striker before it explodes.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: The bodysuits are tight for both sexes, but when it comes to the girls, the suits look like they're vacuum sealed to every single curve the girl has, no matter how big her boobs or butt are, and they can be massive.
- Future Spandex: Mecha Break is set fairly far in the future, and that means everyone wears clingy spandex bodysuits as casual wear, apparently.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Striker executions are downright brutal and wouldn't look out of place in a game like Mortal Kombat. Since the focal point of the executions are the Strikers, the violence and brutality of them are perfectly okay. Considering the alternative would likely be a hot girl with a jiggling butt and bouncing boobs brutally killing another hot girl with a jiggling butt and bouncing boobs, leaving the explicit violence to the Strikers is probably for the best.
- Ms. Fanservice: If a player is making a girl for their pilot, the game defaults to a bunch of hotties with every curve nicely shown off thanks to the tight bodysuits. A male character can be made attractive as well, but it's not hard to tell where the developers put their focus.
- Jiggle Physics: The girls in the game all have noticeable jiggle physics in both their boobs and butts, aided by their skintight bodysuits.
- Never Say "Die": Zigzagged. The game does explicitly refer to defeating other players as kills, but if there's no execution performed, the defeated pilot safely ejects out of their Striker.
- When an execution is performed, no matter what, the Striker explodes and the pilot does not eject.
- Not Enough to Bury: Whenever a pilot's Striker is executed, no matter what happens to the cockpit, the Striker will explode and completely destroy the poor pilot inside.
- Technology Porn: The Strikers in the game look great, are incredibly detailed, and are technological marvels.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When one Striker executes another, it's usually done in a brutal fashion, like impaling the cockpit (which would completely obliterate the poor pilot anyway) and blasting the defeated Striker's limbs off, leaving the scrap to explode. It's safe to say none of those pilots are getting an open-casket funeral.
- Wedgie: The default suits for the girls are all practically molded to their butt cheeks, digging deep in their cracks at the same time. No, the men do not have to deal with them.
- Even Leonie, an ace Falcon pilot who has a unique and fancy outfit, never learned how to pull the spandex out of her butt after getting back to the Striker bay.
- World of Buxom: Apparently, a girl's Striker piloting is stored in her boobs with how big the default option is. While a girl's boob size can be adjusted, setting the slider into the negatives still gives the pilot a rack big enough to cause back pain, and it isn't until the very end of the slider where a girl's boobs look more standard.