It’s not exactly Fire Emblem but I appreciated being able to briefly chat with my crew members between battles. These are not randomized XCOM soldiers but more akin to slightly-fleshed out characters in an SRPG. Like all good space stories, SteamWorld Heist stars a rag-tag crew of heroes on spaceship, assembled by Captain Piper. But instead of another action-platformerer, it’s freakin’ 2D XCOM, and it works brilliantly. SteamWorld Heist is a spin-off of the SteamWorld Dig series that takes place in the same steampunk-robots-in-space universe. My workload as a freelance writer continues to increase (and part of my job is to play new games), and 2017 in particular had a bunch of long games that have taken up a big chunk of my personal play time, such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Divinity: Original Sin 2 (consequently, the #1-3 games on my Top Ten list).īut thanks to waiting in line every day to pick my daughter up from school, I’ve been slowly plugging away on my Nintendo 3DS, finishing a lot of recently released games like Pokémon Moon, Metroid: Samus Returns, and Monster Hunter Stories.Īfter those I fired up an older game that had been sitting in my digital library for so long that I accidentally purchased it again during a Steam sale at some point: SteamWorld Heist. It’s been far too long since I was able to properly start and finish an older game from my backlog. Adventuring through my backlog of games, one game at a time.Īvailable On: 3DS, PC, PS4, Vita, Wii U, iOS, Switch
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