Poster for Breach: The Archangel Job
"Welcome to Chicago."
— Michael, Breach: The Archangel Job, Chapter 1, Part 2
Created by Michael Maxwell and Ben Luigi, Breach: The Archangel Series is an interactive crime series released under Choice of Games' Hosted Games.
It follows the adventures of the Player Character who is accepted into the ranks of the vigilante group calling themselves the Archangels.
As Raphael, you are tasked in undertaking a series of heists to bring down the Chicago Mafia, although your loyalties can be up for debate; you can become a criminal vigilante alongside your team, or ultimately betray them as an informant of the FBI.
The choice is yours, but every action comes with a price. Roll the dice, and survive the deadly consequences of your actions. If you can.
The series is planned to have three books. The first game of the series, Breach: The Archangel Job, was released in November 2019 across several platforms. The second game is currently in the works.
Has a character sheet.
This page includes the tropes for:
- Breach: The Archangel Job, the first game of the series.
- 900 Miles to Barcelona, Carly's short story.
- Blood Trails, Rook and Bishop's short story.
- Shadow of Titans, the main trio's short story.
This series contains the following tropes:
- Action Girl: All female characters in the game.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Quoted word by word in the game when Gabriel offers you to join the Archangel. If you're a criminal, the FBI will hunt you down, and if you're an undercover cop, your assignment is to accept the offer. The game forces you to accept it by greying out the option to refuse after you grumble about it.
- Anyone Can Die: Mostly averted in the first game.
Word of God confirmed this will no longer be the case in Book 2.
- Badass Normal: The members of the Archangels all have different talents and superb fighting capabilities, but despite the occasional case of Plot Armor they're all very much human.
- Black Comedy: The game's choke-full of them. One of the most outstanding example is when Rook and Bishop extracting information from Vincent by using his belt to leash in on his neck, tie him to his taco van's rear bumper and then driving the van quick enough that Vincent's pants and underwear were yanked off his legs. You can have a friendly chat with Rook and Bishop, sipping the bourbon Rook offered to you, while Vincent screams in agony from the road scraping his crotch.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Pre-beta version had gorier content in the Andrew torture scene, but was scrapped sometime after but before being published. Word of God confirms that the second book will be written with gorier scenes.
- Boom, Headshot!: Can happen to Megan House depending on your choices and several other characters throughout the Book.
- Car Fu: Carly, Charlie and potentially the MC if they served as Leadfoot can engage in this a lot.
- Character Death: The Raphael and others can die throughout Book One.
- Deadpan Snarker: Gabriel, Michael, Mouse, your MC, Anthony... almost everyone in the game have their deadpan snarker moments.
- Dirty Business: The MC can feel this at various points throughout the game.
- Face–Heel Turn: Depending on your definition of face and heel, the protagonist can be this if they either start as criminal turn into an FBI informant, or start as a cop and defect to become a full criminal. You can even be a Heel-Face Revolving Door if you start as a criminal, become an informant, before sticking to the Archangels.
- Finger in the Mail: Can happen to Andrew if you let him live with his left middle finger otherwise his tongue is sent instead if he’s killed.
- "Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Happens to the Raphael at the beginning of the game, who can suspect that the arrest was a plot to get them to join the Archangel because of how easy it was to jailbreak.
- Gun Accessories: The game offers tons of customization options for your gun, ranging from magazines, laser sight, silencers to extra color options, all of which can be mixed and matched with eachh other.
- Literal Metaphor: “I’ll rather dig my own grave!” and then proceeds to dig own grave.
- Oh, Crap!: Multiple instances, most notably when Michael informs Gabriel that the agent they carried to their base carried a tracker that allowed the FBI to locate it.
- Relationship Upgrade: Applies to all romance options.
- Safe Cracking: In Book One, you carry out at least two heists that involve literal safes.
- Storming the Castle: Happens with the Archangels and the Vam Corp heist and then happens to the Mill by the FBI raid.
- Surprisingly Super-Tough Thing: The Vam Corp door. Nuff said.
- Talking Your Way Out: A player with high persuasion can smooth talk their way out by convincing their opponents it's in their best interest to cooperate.
- Technical Pacifist: You can play as a criminal who avoids any unnecessary killing and even convince your allies to let some of their captives go.
- The Cartel: The Unity Cartels, Los Unidad, based in Los Angeles, is one of this and is an opponent against the Archangels together with the Outfit.
- The Chase: One of the main goals of the main trio is to chase out and kill the leader of the Outfit.
- The Mafia: The Outfit, with a leader Don Lavadechi having an Italian name.
- The Victim Must Be Confused: Occurs during Rook's final hangout when he, Bishop, and the Raphael go to rescue Alix.
- To Win Without Fighting : Persuasion and intimidation checks
- Tongue Trauma: Lotta tongues are cut!
- Torture Always Works: Mostly played straight as the main trios and Rook are all very good at coming up with creative torture methods to successfully force information out of their captives. In one instance, the protagonist can let Raquel "do her thing" with Andrew, which makes it easier for them to either persuade or intimidate Andrew to spill out his secret.
- Vehicular Assault: Happens routinely whenever you are fleeing from either the FBI or the Outfit. The opponent can shoot you from their vehicles or perform a PIT maneuver on you, and if you are skilled enough, you can in turn do this against your opponent.
- Victory Through Intimidation: A player with high intimidation can regularly force their opponents to submission by either verbal threats or physical violence.
- Vigilante Hero: The main trio had rooted out the Five Families of New York and was now trying to do the same to the Outfit. The protagonist can also be this.
Michael: [to Don Lavadechi] Gabriel and I, we used to kill assholes like you for fun, but now we're doing it because the world's better off without dirtbags like you.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Rook and Bishop, and to a lesser extent, Gabriel and Michael.
