Breakaway (upcoming video game)

Breakaway
Developer(s)	Double Helix Games
Publisher(s)	Amazon Game Studios
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	TBA
Genre(s)	Brawler
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Breakaway is an upcoming team-based, multiplayer brawler video game in development at Amazon Game Studios.

Breakaway is a multiplayer brawler game in which two teams of four attempt to move a ball (the relic) to their opponent's goal. Each team member (hero) has unique abilities towards these ends, similar to the heroes of the MOBA genre. Each hero can build two structures, such as turrets, healing shrines, and walls. The player can upgrade their structures mid-game with gold earned through the match. Heroes span several class types—such as tanks, swordsmen, and mages—and archetypal themes (e.g., a knight and Spartacus). The game is fought on battlefields with themes such as El Dorado and Atlantis.

The game includes several features aimed to promote streaming on Twitch, the streaming service purchased by Amazon. Broadcast Match Builder invites streamer followers to games. Broadcaster Spotlight lets players know when their match is being streamed. Metastream overlays game stats atop streamer video. Stream+ lets streamers run polls and place bets with in-game currency.

Amazon acquired Double Helix in early 2014. Two years later, Amazon announced its first computer games, including Breakaway, at the September 2016 TwitchCon.

The game combines elements of League of Legends, Power Stone, and Rocket League, and is designed for easy streaming on Twitch. The developers hosted an open alpha version in December 2016.Breakaway has no set release date.

Polygon was "pleasantly surprised" by the game's accessibility and depth. They were able to understand the game within an hour of coaching.Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote that the game, at first, appears to be "a cacophonous trend-vomiting combination" of its forebears, but added that Breakaway had the potential to match them.

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