SteamWorld Heist
Join Captain Piper Faraday, smuggler and occasional pirate, as she recruits a rag-tag team of steam-driven robots and sets out on a daring adventure. With your hearty crew you’ll board, loot and shoot your way…
SteamWorld Heist is an adventure developed by Image & Form, released 9 December 2015 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It currently starts at $2.99 at GOG.
What SteamWorld Heist is
SteamWorld Heist is an adventure game developed by Image & Form and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Google Stadia, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on sdl2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
SteamWorld Heist is a turn-based tactics shooter video game developed and published by Image & Form. The third installment of the SteamWorld series and the sequel to SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Heist has the player control Captain Piper Faraday, a smuggler and occasional pirate, as she recruits a ragtag team of robots and sets out on a space adventure. The objective of the game is for players to board, loot, and shoot their way through enemy spaceships.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
SteamWorld Heist holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 116 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz, SSE2 support, 1024 MB RAM and OpenGL 2.1-compatible, 512 MB video memory, framebuffer object support. E.g. Intel HD 4600 or better.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
SteamWorld Heist launched on 9 December 2015, within three weeks of Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege and Bloodborne: The Old Hunters. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege, Bloodborne: The Old Hunters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for SteamWorld Heist yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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