SteamWorld

{{Short description|Video game series}}

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{{Infobox video game series

| title = SteamWorld

| image = File:Steamworld series logo.png

| platforms = Nintendo DSi
Nintendo 3DS
Windows
OS X
Linux
PlayStation 4
PlayStation Vita
Wii U
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
Stadia
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X/S

| developer = Image & Form
Thunderful Development
The Station

| publisher = Image & Form
Thunderful Publishing

|first release version=SteamWorld Tower Defense

|first release date=July 5, 2010

|latest release version=SteamWorld Heist II

|latest release date=August 8, 2024

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/how-steamworld-bucked-the-easy-route-and-became-a-series-without-a-genre/|title=How SteamWorld bucked 'the easy route' and became a series without a genre|first=Austin|last=Wood|work=PC Gamer|date=December 6, 2017|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}

Story overview

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.

In SteamWorld Dig 2, a young robot girl called Dorothy who is Rusty's friend, looks for Rusty's whereabouts and discover that he was captured by the Humans, who intend to take control of the Vectron technology to reclaim the surface. However, the Vectron reactor in their possession overloads, causing a chain reaction that destroys Earth, with Rusty and Dorothy surviving by boarding one among several rockets created to evacuate the bots from the planet. The creation of one of these rockets is shown in SteamWorld Build, where a mysterious robot called Core guiding a bot population to settle near an old mine where they dig up parts of a rocket. Once the rocket is completed, Core reveals himself as part of the Vectron Hivemind who infiltrates the rocket's systems as they take the city's inhabitants to safety.

List of ''SteamWorld'' games

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! Title !! Year !! Platform(s) !!Genre(s)

SteamWorld Tower Defense2010Nintendo DSiReal-time strategy, tower defense
rowspan=5 | SteamWorld Dig{{cite web|url=https://www.vg247.com/steamworld-dig-release-date-announced-by-image-form|title=SteamWorld Dig release date announced by Image & Form|first=Stephany|last=Nunneley-Jackson|date=March 4, 2014|accessdate=April 18, 2024|work=VG247}}2013Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linuxrowspan=5 | Platformer, action-adventure, metroidvania
| 2014PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U
2015Xbox One
2018Nintendo Switch
2020Stadia
rowspan=4| SteamWorld Heist{{cite web|url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/12/steamworld_heist_release_date_and_pricing_confirmed|title=SteamWorld Heist Release Date and Pricing Confirmed|first=Thomas|last=Whitehead|work=Nintendo Life|date=December 1, 2015|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}

| 2015

Nintendo 3DS

| rowspan=4|Turn-based strategy, action-adventure

2016Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, iOS
2017Nintendo Switch
2020Stadia
rowspan=3| SteamWorld Dig 2{{cite web|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/steamworld-dig-2-is-coming-to-pc-on-september-22/|title=SteamWorld Dig 2 is coming to PC on September 22|first=Fraser|last=Brown|work=PC Gamer|date=September 14, 2017|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}

| 2017

Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita

| rowspan=3| Platformer, action-adventure, metroidvania

2018Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One
2020Stadia
rowspan=2|SteamWorld Quest{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/26/steamworld-quest-gets-a-release-date|title=SteamWorld Quest Gets a Release Date|first=Colin|last=Stevens|work=IGN|date=March 27, 2019|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}

| 2019

Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux

| rowspan=2|Role-playing, deck-building

2020Stadia
SteamWorld Build{{cite web|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steamworld-build-announced-for-2023-release-demo-available-now/1100-6510759/|title=SteamWorld Build Announced For 2023 Release, Demo Available Now|first=Steve|last=Watts|work=GameSpot|date=January 23, 2023|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}2023Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SConstruction and management simulation
SteamWorld Heist II{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/steamworld-heist-2-announced-we-talk-to-thunderful-after-the-sequels-indie-world-showcase-reveal|title=Steamworld Heist 2 Announced: We Talk to Thunderful After the Sequel's Indie World Showcase Reveal|first=Kat|last=Bailey|work=IGN|date=April 18, 2024|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}2024Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/STurn-based strategy, action-adventure
SteamWorld: HeadhunterOn hold{{cite web|url=https://www.gamereactor.eu/steamworld-headhunter-might-have-been-cancelled-1362163/|title=SteamWorld Headhunter might have been cancelled|first=Jonas|last= Mäki|work=Gamereactor|date=February 23, 2024|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}TBAAction-adventure

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