SteamWorld has been kicking around for 13 years now, when the humble little SteamWorld Tower Defense landed on the Nintendo DSi via DSiWare. It has become a surprisingly robust if generally unheralded IP since then, dipping into genres as broad as RPG, XCOM clone and Mr Driller-like. SteamWorld Build is…
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SteamWorld has, over the past decade, built up to become a highly eclectic series. It started with a humble DSiWare tower defence, which was quickly forgotten, but had a breakout hit with the first SteamWorld Dig, which was something of a Mr. Driller iteration. Since then there has been a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Be careful what you wish for. The SteamWorld series, by developer Image & Form, has always offered stellar production values and tight, engaging gameplay, across the many genres that it has crossed over the years. There’s been a tower defence, two platformers, and a 2D XCom…
Read MoreImage & Form’s SteamWorld franchise has been steadily growing into a quality indie IP. From humble beginnings as a simple, but effective tower defense title in SteamWorld: Tower Defense on the DSiWare downloadable platform, to SteamWorld Dig, which was a breakaway success across almost every platform out there, we now…
Read MoreImage & Form has released 3DS-specific screenshots of its upcoming cross-many-platforms 2D strategy game, SteamWorld Heist. One look at them will be enough to convince you that this will be the superior version. As you can see from the screenshots below, SteamWorld Heist on the 3DS makes heavy use of…
Read MoreImage & Form’s SteamWorld franchise is rapidly developing into a versatile indie darling. Way back on DSiWare (remember that?), there was a SteamWorld tower defence game, which showed potential, but then there was SteamWorld Dig that has proven to be a remarkably popular game that has now appeared on all…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. SteamWorld Dig was a title that, regardless of its general lack of a plot, we had trouble powering off once we discovered our first glistening mound of precious minerals: “Just one more dig!” screamed Brad L., rejecting the Sand Man’s attempts to put him to bed…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. “Just one more dig!” was a common sentence I uttered during my time with SteamWorld Dig. Not since Diablo II have I played a game that caused me to stay up longer than I’m accustomed to, just for the sheer fact that I was completely hooked…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I was truly impressed by SteamWorld Dig when I reviewed the original release of it on the Nintendo 3DS last year. It was a hugely creative little game that successfully merged platformer and Mr Driller-style play together, and mixed in a really neat steam punk theme…
Read MoreA few weeks back developer Image & Form released a rather spectacular little platformer on the 3DS eShop. SteamWorld Dig is a hugely creative and charming game, and promises some great things for the SteamWorld franchise into the future. While Image & Form doesn’t restrict itself to Nintendo platforms, it…
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