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SteamWorld Heist 2 revealed, bringing a ragtag crew of seafaring robots to PC this AugustSimultaneously announced and revealed at the Nintendo Indie World Showcase
Simultaneously announced and revealed at the Nintendo Indie World Showcase
Image credit:Thunderful Publishing
Image credit:Thunderful Publishing
SteamWorld Heist 2 is, if you hadn’t guessed, a sequel toSteamWorld Heist, which came to PC in 2016. The first was a side-on tactics game where you, leading a team of robots, shot teams of other (bad) robots in turn-based skill-heavy tactical battles. While that all took place in space, the sequel has achieved splashdown, and you’ll be chuntering about the seas with a new lead character (Captain Leeway) and a new bunch of crewmates. It’s a robot pirate game, in other words.
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The new setting comes with some other new stuff, including a job system to customise abilities and equipment, which sounds similar to theFinal FantasyXIV/some-of-the-Yakuza-games system of assigning classes. There’s also a big world map where you can sail around between missions to explore and do some real-time naval shootin'. The meat of the game is once you’ve boarded an enemy ship for a mission, though, which is when you do the turn-based strategy bit. Key to success is setting up trick shots, where you can ricochet bullets off the environment to hit your bad guy of choice.
Both of the SteamWorld Heist games are part of a larger SteamWorld universe, notably includingSteamWorld Digand the more recentSteamWorld Build. I don’t really have much experience of the extended Steam universe, but I’ll get on board with robot pirates. That’s sort of the only place to be in a seafaring situation, afer all. SteamWorld Heist 2 is onSteamnow, and releases on August 8th. Kat Baileyat IGNhas some more details from an interview with producer Petter Magnusson.
