SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech Trailers
SteamWorld Quest - Official Trailer - Out Now on Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS/iPadOS and Stadia!
SteamWorld Quest Exclusive Gameplay - Nintendo Minute
SteamWorld Quest - Announcement Trailer - Nintendo Switch
Critic Reviews for SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
SteamWorld Quest's card-based RPG combat offers an insane amount of choice, making it as flexible as it is fun.
Cobbling together the right assortment of cards, combat, and characters is fun. However, shortcomings in progression, story, and complexity create a sterile experience
SteamWorld Quest's accessible take on card-based combat is undermined by an uneven difficulty curve that frustrates more than it encourages.
When taken as an overall package, there's no getting away from expressing how brilliant and addictive the card-based approach to RPG combat is here.
Remarkably solid and satisfying, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a card battler with an abundance of charm in its art, mechanics and writing. The presentation is slick, the dialogue's witty and the gameplay's addictive, although nothing about it feels particularly special – not in the way SteamWorld Dig 2 felt special. It does what it does well, though, and it's still a thoroughly enjoyable time in that universe. As long as you're not expecting anything revolutionary, we recommend anybody who likes turn-based battling or who enjoyed any previous games in the series check it out.
I never should have doubted Image & Form, and I hope the studio knows that my expectations are now sky high for whatever it does next.
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