Image & Form

SteamWorld: Headhunter

An upcoming third-person co-operative title in the SteamWorld Dig universe. This installment will make the leap to the third dimension for the first time in the history of the SteamWorld franchise.

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Developers: Image & Form
Publishers: Thunderful
Modes: Co-op Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action

About

SteamWorld is an anthology series of video games created by Image & Form. All games depict the adventures of a race of steam-driven robots in a post-apocalyptic steampunk world, with different genres for each game, ranging from action and strategy to role-playing and simulation.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

The story of SteamWorld begins in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where human society has fallen into collapse. SteamWorld Tower Defense tells the story of a huge war between humans and robots for the control of Earth. After a long conflict, the robots prevented the human invasion and the surviving humans took refuge in the underground. Since then the bots began forming a civilization reminiscent of the American Old West, with the upper classes composed of bots running on petrol, while the lower classes run on coal to survive.

In SteamWorld Dig, a robot miner called Rusty inherits his uncle's mine and begins digging all the way to the ruins of an ancient race of electronic bots called the "Vectron", who is reactivated with his arrival. To prevent the Vectron from taking over the surface, Rusty defeats them, but disappears.