#Steam steamworld heist plus

#Steam steamworld heist plus

Plus it manages to extract the same amazing joy of performing trick shots in pool or snooker and putting them into a strategy game. SteamWorld Heist perfectly combines both skill and strategy into each level. While some guns have handy laser sights the real skill in SteamWorld Heist comes in weighing up taking that risky shot or not. However, it can just as easily miss the mark and just ping across the map.

This can result in amazing trick shots where the bullet ricochets off of several walls before landing a perfect headshot. Whenever a shot is fired if there is a wall, ceiling or floor in its trajectory then it will bounce. This game is welcoming, simple and great fun, but can have a mean streak. If you leave your team out of cover, flanked or within grenade lobbing distance then prepare for some pain.

If you point your gun in a given direction a bullet (or bullets) are going to fly from that gun and continue in the direction until they collide with something. What you end up with is a hilarious, yet skilful strategy game. SteamWorld Heist takes the grand strategy of the likes of XCOM and it’s ilk, does away with the percentage variables and instead adds tricks shots.

Although it’s set in the same universe as its pickaxe wielding predecessor, instead of collecting ore and going caving, you are in space taking part in turn-based 2D squad combat. Jumping back to the present and we have SteamWorld Heist. It was a joy to play and stands out as my favourite underground game – I’m sorry Spelunky. This article is was originally written in 2015 for the now defunct GamerTime UK website.īrief history lesson: SteamWorld Dig was a 2D platformer that saw players digging deep into subterranean caverns.