One other SteamWorld sport is on the horizon, as Thunderful has introduced SteamWorld Heist 2 is coming very quickly. The sequel to the turn-based tactical sport will launch on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X, and Nintendo Swap on August 8.
Like the primary installment, SteamWorld Heist 2 stars a ragtag group of Steambots who do battle in slim, multi-level 2D corridors with a novel ricochet trick-shot mechanic to take out enemies. This time you are led by Captain Leeway and his crewmates. The heroes are trying right into a disaster that corrupts the water and corrodes their mechanical limbs. They’re going to combat towards factions just like the high-powered (and blinged out) Navy or the cultist Rattlers who’ve began changing their mechanical components with natural bones that will not rust.
SteamWorld Heist 2 will characteristic an interactive world map that has you exploring the tropical excessive seas in a submarine-like vessel and coming into encounters with enemy ships, together with naval battles with its personal gear to customise. Thunderful instructed GameSpot that an interactive map was one of many concepts it had initially deliberate for the primary SteamWorld Heist, nevertheless it in the end needed to be reduce. As within the first, the ship can be your private home and improve hub.
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Heist 2 will embody a brand new job system composed of jobs like Sniper with lengthy aiming reticles or Reapers focusing on taking out a number of foes. You’ll be able to be taught expertise from the assorted jobs after which preserve them geared up as you transition to different lessons to combine and match your talents. As one instance, Thunderful confirmed us how the Sniper’s “Excellent Purpose” talent might be utilized to the explosive Boomer class, which might then present you full element on the world of impact in your rocket rounds.
“Thousands and thousands of gamers have gravitated towards SteamWorld Heist’s distinctive gameplay and artwork type, and fallen in love with its authentic story, characters and music,” stated franchise director Brjánn Sigurgeirsson, within the announcement. “We’re excited to convey our devoted fanbase on a brand new journey with us in SteamWorld Heist II, the place gamers will expertise a hilarious growth of the unique set within the excessive seas.”
The unique SteamWorld Heist has an 86 on GameSpot sister website Metacritic and obtained an 8/10 in GameSpot’s assessment. Matt Espineli referred to as it an “absorbing tactical expertise with well-crafted mechanics and techniques.”
The SteamWorld collection has a number of entries now, however the model encompasses very completely different genres just like the action-platformer SteamWorld Dig video games and the turn-based RPG SteamWorld Quest. SteamWorld Heist will probably be solely the second sport to get a direct sequel, after SteamWorld Dig 2. The newest launch within the collection, SteamWorld Construct, is a metropolis administration sim that was launched in 2023. Thunderful, in the meantime, was certainly one of many publishers thatrecently introduced layoffsto its workforce, citing difficult market situations.