SteamWorld Dig followup SteamWorld Heist announced
Platforms still to be determined.
SteamWorld Dig developer Image & Form has announced SteamWorld Heist, a game about “space adventures and survival” due out for undetermined platforms in spring 2015.
The game is set “some time” afer SteamWorld Dig, after a cataclysmic event shattered the planet, forcing the population into steam-driven spaceships. Water is now a valuable resource, and heisting other ships and bases is, unfortunately, the only way to remain in operation.
“Heist isn’t a sequel to SteamWorld Dig,” says CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson. “It’s set in the same world and the cowbots are still the heroes. But a lot has happened to SteamWorld since then, and we want to make a game that is radically different. Partly because we really wanted to make a turn-based strategy game, but also because it felt like a clever move. The obvious follow-up would’ve been Dig 2; we wanted to surprise instead.”
Here’s the official blurb:
SteamWorld Heist is a game about space adventures and survival. Recruit a team of ragtag robots to explore and scavenge the remains of a destroyed world. Board enemy ships and command your crew in a unique variety of turn-based combat.
Watch the teaser trailer below. View some images at the gallery.
SteamWorld Dig is currently available across PlayStation 4, Wii U, PS Vita, 3DS, and PC.
