SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a turn-based role-playing game and deck-building game hybrid that is part of the SteamWorld series of . It was developed by Image & Form and published by Thunderful Publishing. The game was released for Nintendo Switch on April 25, 2019, for Windows, macOS, and Linux on May 31, 2019, for Google Stadia on March 3, 2020, and for Amazon Luna on October 20, 2020.
The game follows a team of sentient steam-powered as they travel across a steampunk fantasy world fighting evil.
Plot
SteamWorld Quest is presented as a
fairy tale told within the otherwise
science fiction universe of
SteamWorld Heist and is not directly linked story-wise to the previous games.
It follows Armilly and Copernica, two friends who set out on a journey that spirals into a much larger one.
Gameplay
SteamWorld Quest is a
side-scrolling video game and is separated into small explorable areas that the player is encouraged to loot for treasure. The player may encounter enemies and become engaged in battle. Attacks are performed by collecting
that the robots can use to execute
Computer program. The game uses role-playing game elements, with steam pressure representing mana. The player must build their own deck of attacks using character-specific cards.
Reception
SteamWorld Quest received an aggregate score of 81 on
Metacritic.
Matt Masem of
RPGamer rated the game 4.5/5, calling it an "excellent adventure" with "beautiful" animation, and calling the story "wonderfully executed" despite being "standard RPG fare".
Tom Marks of
IGN gave the game 8.6/10, saying the combat system offers an "insane amount of choice".
Nadia Oxford of
USgamer rated the game 4/5, criticizing the game as "light on character and worldbuilding" but calling it a "fun, airy RPG".
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