After a pair weeks as a Switch unique, card-battling RPG SteamWorld Quest: Hand Of Gilgamech is hopping over to PC on May 31st. The fourth in Image & Form’s persistently glorious SteamWorld sequence, the games have thus far included two mining–heavy platformers and one turn-based squad combat game with a focus on trick-shooting. Naturally, the subsequent step for the sequence is a Slay The Spire-styled JRPG with some Paper Mario aptitude. The Switch model is an actual charmer, with compelling deck-building backed up by lovable artwork. Take a take a look at the brand new PC trailer under.
From what I’ve seen on Switch, SteamWorld Quest: Hand Of Gilgamech is a superb introduction to deck-building card-battlers, particularly for these postpone by Slay The Spire’s typically merciless issue. While the cardboard fight is roughly related, having mostly-scripted encounters and a celebration of three characters offers you much more room for error. It’s not an particularly robust game, or an extended one (most estimates I’ve seen clock it round fifteen hours), nevertheless it’s persistently participating, throwing new wrinkles into the combination all over. As you’d count on of a SteamWorld game, actually.
As with the opposite SteamWorld games, there’s no grand canon linking these games collectively, however they share a universe stuffed with steam-powered robotic individuals, this time on a medieval fantasy-themed world. That means cyber-dragons and (lovable) witch-bots, and a factor for animal masks for some purpose. While I’d not name it laugh-out-loud humorous, the game steadily made me smile, and a number of the incidental particulars are nice. Fans of The Adventure Zone podcast ought to look fastidiously across the service provider’s background artwork. That, and the shopkeeper’s orange, feline options. Hrrm.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand Of Gilgamech hits Steam on May 31st, printed by Thunderful. It’ll value £22.49/€24.99 /$24.99.
