Image & Form wrote: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.

Taking place some time after SteamWorld Dig, a cataclysmic event has shattered the planet and forced its population into steam-driven spaceships. It’s a robot-eat-robot world out there, and water is desperately hard to come by. Heisting other ships and bases – bad guys fortunately, the lot of them – is their only way to remain in operation.

Play as a captain going on a massive raid in space

Go from base to base with your ship

Side-scrolling turn-based strategy game

Defeat enemies, collect the loot, and get out of the base

Need to strategize to get out of each scenario with your crew intact

Each character can only move a set amount of steps and can only do so much once they are settled

If your steps remain within a certain buffer area, you are able to fire at your opponents

Each character can use an array of guns

These fall into a wide variety of shot types

Some only shoot one strong bullet, while others shoot three weaker ones

Combine these skills with abilities

Abilities example: let bullets bounce against the walls

More than just guns

Can throw grenades and use other special items to get to the loot and harm enemies

Outside of battle, you have to go to various bars and recruit new crew members

Once the initial payment is done, they become part of your team until they are defeated

Need to make sure your captain doesn’t get defeated because that makes you lose all of your crew

In those rougher places, multiple paths come into play and you have to use your team wisely to explore every nook and cranny

View maps on the touch screen

Massive overview map lets you travel to the specific locations