We love the SteamWorld franchise, particularly the Xbox releases of the SteamWorld Dig collection. Very quickly although we’ll be constructing like by no means earlier than, with the newly introduced SteamWorld Construct.
Mixing Anno and Dungeon Keeper-styled gameplay with a SteamWorld twist, SteamWorld Construct from Thunderful and The Station will likely be trying to broaden the minds of Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Change and PC gamers later in 2023; taking a well-known style and dropping in some correct selection.
SteamWorld Construct does simply that, delivering a multi-level city-building expertise that duties you with establishing a thriving city above floor, whereas mining sources and coping with monsters under. It definitely guarantees to take us locations that neither SteamWorld Dig or SteamWorld Dig 2 might do.
Developed for PC and console concurrently, the groups behind it have ensured that SteamWorld Construct may have a UX and UI, in addition to gameplay mechanics that work neatly with a controller in hand; replicating the standard mouse and keyboard expertise to a tee. It additionally guarantees to be on level for each newcomers to the style in addition to those that are properly versed with town constructing scene, refined additional by three problem ranges.
In SteamWorld Construct, you’re the architect of a SteamWorld mining city. Break floor and lift homes on your steambot residents, maintain them fed and supply some rootin’-tootin’ leisure. You’ll additionally enterprise into the deserted mine sitting underneath your city, rumoured to be stuffed with historic tech that holds the important thing to escaping impending doom. Use the pure sources above floor and the plentiful ores buried within the mine to broaden your city. Stimulate new residential tiers to affix the search to dig deeper, unearth untold riches and finally assist them to hightail it off the planet!
“When The Station joined Thunderful in 2020 and advised us that they needed to make a metropolis builder, we thought it supplied a fantastic alternative for SteamWorld and Thunderful to maneuver into one other new style,” mentioned Brjánn Sigurgeirsson. “They know what it means to work on massive IPs because of their expertise growing for LittleBigPlanet, together with crossovers with God of Battle, Darkish Souls and lots of extra. After shedding loads of hours getting sucked into the wonderful gameplay loop they’ve created between overground city-building and underground mining, I can inform you that I’m actually pleased with what they’ve managed to do throughout the SteamWorld universe.”
“Having the chance to work on an award-winning franchise that’s liked by followers was an actual honour for us,” mentioned Adam Vassee, producer at The Station. “We’ve put a number of effort into ensuring the sport retains the charming character of earlier entries, however we’re additionally fortunate in that the SteamWorld collection is all about making an attempt new issues. That’s been liberating in permitting us to place our personal twist on SteamWorld and town builder style to craft an intuitive Anno meets Dungeon Keeper model system that we predict is not like anything on the market.”
We’re already trying ahead to seeing SteamWorld Construct rocking up onto Xbox, PlayStation, Change and PC in 2023, tempted much more by the Steam demo that’s out there.
Tell us your ideas – the feedback are under the announcement trailer.
