BREAK ARTS III

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BREAK ARTS III is a single player and multiplayer tactical shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by MercuryStudio and was released on September 19, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

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86%

Audience ScoreBased on 193 reviews

gameplay8 positive mentions

optimization15 negative mentions

Extremely deep and extensive mech customization system allowing for the creation of unique, highly personalized designs.
Fast-paced, thrilling racing and combat gameplay that offers a high skill ceiling and satisfying mastery experience.
Multiple game modes including racing, battle, hybrid battle racing, and co-op, providing varied and engaging gameplay.

Performance and optimization issues causing frequent stutters, frame drops, and occasional crashes, especially on certain maps.
Steep learning curve and complex controls, which can be challenging for new players without a dedicated tutorial.
Combat mechanics and lock-on system are clunky and sometimes frustrating; racing track design can be narrow and punishing.

optimization
67 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers excellent mech customization and gameplay but is consistently plagued by poor optimization, causing frequent stutters, frame drops, and occasional freezes—especially on certain maps and during intense effects. While performance may be acceptable on high-end PCs, many users experience significant issues that hinder enjoyment. Ongoing updates show promise, but optimization remains a critical flaw needing urgent improvement.
- “Optimization could be better, gameplay and customization is pristine.”
- “The customization from BA2 is streamlined while staying in depth, turning corners is easier, there's new parts, a new mode, the visuals are amazing and I'm having no performance issues compared to the demo.”
- “So far really fun experience, occasional freezes on loading screens and menus during big particle dumps, but besides that good performance.”
- “Performance stutters and bugs pop up, especially online; needs optimization asap.”
- “The building is fun, the racing feels awesome, and the speed is intoxicating... but it's kinda hard to enjoy it all when the game can't go 30 seconds without stuttering like an epileptic with 10,000 volts coursing through their unmentionables.”
- “Update: the more you play the game, the worse it runs because it's not optimized to all hell, but it's still fun; just expect to freeze every five times you detonate or do a turn on ocean or that dust map.”
gameplay
30 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Gameplay is praised for its deep customization and engaging mech combat, offering a fast-paced, well-balanced experience reminiscent of classic mech games. While some find the controls and physics occasionally stiff or janky, the core gameplay loop and variety of multiplayer modes keep it enjoyable and rewarding for players who invest time mastering mechanics. Minor technical issues and a slightly cluttered UI are noted, but overall the gameplay is considered one of the best in recent mech games.
- “Genuinely one of the best mech games this decade in terms of gameplay and customization.”
- “The gameplay is enjoyable, but the real joy comes from building your own mech the very way you like.”
- “The core gameplay loop is like nothing else.”
- “After twenty or so hours, when you realize that this is all there is to it, you'll either keep playing it for the cool customization or stop playing from how repetitive and undiversified the actual gameplay moments are.”
- “It's just so held back by its janky physics, controls, and stiff gameplay.”
- “Controlling the mechs feels unnatural and slow, which works against its fast gameplay with high speeds and battles.”
graphics
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics are visually appealing and can look impressive at times, but the game suffers from inconsistent performance, including stability issues, poor optimization, and heavy resource usage—especially with ray tracing in menus. Users report problems with lighting, lack of graphics options, and occasional unplayable levels on certain hardware, requiring adjustments to lower settings for smoother play. Overall, while the art style is unique, optimization and stability need improvement.
- “The customization from ba2 is streamlined while staying in depth, turning corners is easier there's new parts a new mode, the visuals are amazing and I'm having no performance issues compared to the demo.”
- “The graphics look pretty good, although there are some issues with lighting in certain maps.”
- “For me at least, I've rarely had stutters and frame drops and I play with max graphics (for reference I have a 3070 and 16GB RAM).”
- “Warning to people with AMD graphics cards: this game is likely to overheat your PC if you stay in the main menu due to heavy raytracing usage there. Anywhere else is fine, but note that it's the menu specifically causing this issue.”
- “There are some levels in this game that are simply unplayable with modern graphics cards.”
- “Unoptimized graphics with excessive background rendering.”
story
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features minimal narrative elements, with no cutscenes and story details primarily accessible through in-game text, leaving much of the story up to player interpretation. While fans appreciate the gameplay and mech customization, many note the lack of a structured story, missions, or deeper content as a downside. Overall, the story aspect is sparse and minimalistic, focusing more on gameplay than narrative development.
- “Overall, the game is a ton of fun and very minimalistic given its scope. If you like racing and giant mechs fighting each other, this is it. But if you're looking for story, it's all hidden in text in the 'knowledge' menu with no cutscenes. The story is entirely yours to create.”
- “Besides the first mission, the game leaves the tutorials out of the way in order not to bombard you with paragraphs of text explaining everything. Once you have the basics and want to learn the nitpicky stuff, like how overheating your mech makes you faster between 80% to 100%, you can start right in the first menu called 'knowledge', and it will explain everything in detail.”
- “Overall the game is a ton of fun and very minimalistic given its scope. If you're looking for story, it's all hidden in text in the knowledge menu with no cutscenes; the story is entirely yours to create.”
- “Would love more content, a story, missions, etc., but those are my expectations and the product we have is what it is.”
- “Like Armored Core but without the story, focusing instead on better gameplay.”
stability
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers impressive mech customization and fun gameplay but suffers from numerous bugs, glitches, freezes, and occasional crashes, affecting overall stability. Performance issues worsen in later stages, though frequent updates show ongoing efforts to improve optimization. Despite these problems, many players find the experience enjoyable but hope for better polish in future patches.
- “Great idea and concept, by far the best mech customization, but currently way too buggy to really enjoy :(”
- “However the game fails to launch now, freezes, and bricks my PC, forcing me to restart my PC every time.”
- “29th Sept - performance gets super bad late in the game's story: frequent freezes and bots feel unlimited, always fighting the camera which flips you. Races become impossible with opponents moving at light speed and completing laps before you finish the first. Game punishes you for going too fast, probably due to frame rate issues. Overall, it needs significant optimization work.”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is widely praised for its energetic and well-crafted soundtrack, perfectly complementing the mech racing experience and enhancing the overall atmosphere. Despite the soundtrack being relatively small, it effectively pumps up players from start to finish.
- “First and foremost, the music is brilliant.”
- “The soundtrack, the blur, the feel, everything feels crafted to perfection to give you the experience of mech racing.”
- “The music gets you pumped from the moment a level starts, love it from start to finish.”
- “- Decent soundtrack”
humor
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's humor shines through its amusing bugs, chaotic mech antics, and quirky online features like shared mech piloting and gravity-flipping. Players find the unpredictable glitches and over-the-top combat moments both funny and entertaining, adding a lighthearted charm to the experience.
- “Tldr: funny mech meme game with speeeed, goes spinnnnnnnnn and brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.”
- “Online lets you flip gravity, tweak energy, and even run a hilarious co-op where multiple pilots share one mech.”
- “This beyblade-esque monstrosity lit up the entire map in lasers and was really funny to fight against.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users praise the game's atmosphere for its intense and immersive qualities, highlighting how environmental elements, like the air, contribute to a powerful and dynamic sensory experience.
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players find the grinding aspect highly engaging and immersive, often spending extensive time optimizing their mechs and replaying score attacks. The experience is addictive but can become intense due to its demanding nature.
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features no microtransactions, providing a monetization model free from in-app purchases.
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users express a strong emotional connection to the game's improvements, appreciating the streamlined customization, new features like the heat system, and enhanced controls that address previous frustrations. The beautiful maps and expanded game modes further contribute to a deeply satisfying and immersive experience.