SteamWorld is an anthology series of created by Image & Form. All games depict the adventures of a race of steam-driven robots in a post-apocalyptic steampunk world, with different genres for each game, ranging from action and strategy to role-playing and simulation.
In SteamWorld Dig 2, a young robot girl called Dorothy who is Rusty's friend, looks for Rusty's whereabouts and discover that he was captured by the Humans, who intend to take control of the Vectron technology to reclaim the surface. However, the Vectron reactor in their possession overloads, causing a chain reaction that destroys Earth, with Rusty and Dorothy surviving by boarding one among several rockets created to evacuate the bots from the planet. The creation of one of these rockets is shown in SteamWorld Build, where a mysterious robot called Core guiding a bot population to settle near an old mine where they dig up parts of a rocket. Once the rocket is completed, Core reveals himself as part of the Vectron Hivemind who infiltrates the rocket's systems as they take the city's inhabitants to safety.
| Real-time strategy, tower defense | ||
| Platformer, action-adventure, metroidvania | ||
| PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U | ||
| Xbox One | ||
| Nintendo Switch | ||
| Google Stadia | ||
| SteamWorld Heist | Nintendo 3DS | Turn-based strategy, action-adventure |
| Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, iOS | ||
| Nintendo Switch | ||
| Google Stadia | ||
| SteamWorld Dig 2 | Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita | Platformer, action-adventure, metroidvania |
| Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One | ||
| Google Stadia | ||
| SteamWorld Quest | Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux | Role-playing, deck-building |
| Google Stadia | ||
| Construction and management simulation | ||
| Turn-based strategy, action-adventure | ||
| Action-adventure |
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