| SteamWorld Heist | |
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| Developer(s) | Image & Form |
| Publisher(s) | Image & Form |
| Composer(s) | Steam Powered Giraffe |
| Series | SteamWorld |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Stadia |
| Release | Nintendo 3DS
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| Genre(s) | Turn-based tactics, action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
SteamWorld Heist is a turn-based tactics shooter video game developed and published by Image & Form. The third installment of the SteamWorld series and the sequel to SteamWorld Dig,[1] SteamWorld Heist has the player control Captain Piper Faraday, a smuggler and occasional pirate, as she recruits a ragtag team of robots and sets out on a space adventure. The objective of the game is for players to board, loot, and shoot their way through enemy spaceships.
SteamWorld Heist was released on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS in Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand on December 10, 2015. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux through Steam on June 7, 2016, for the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita via the PlayStation Store on June 7, 2016, in North America and on June 8, 2016, in Europe and Australia.[2] It was released both physically and digitally (through the Nintendo eShop) for the Wii U on September 30, 2016, in Europe and Australia and in North America on October 20, 2016. It was released worldwide on the iOS App store on November 9, 2016. On December 28, 2017, the game was released worldwide for the Nintendo Switch (via Nintendo eShop) under the subtitle Ultimate Edition.[3] It was released on Google's cloud gaming service Stadia on March 10, 2020, and on Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna on October 20, 2020.[4][5]
A sequel, SteamWorld Heist II, was released on August 8, 2024.
- ^ Image & Form (September 10, 2015), The SteamWorld Timeline – The Engine Room #1, retrieved February 2, 2016
- ^ "SteamWorld Heist Hits Steam and PS4/Vita on June 7th". Image & Form. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ^ Olney, Alex (December 12, 2017). "SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition Storms onto Nintendo Switch This Year". Nintendo Life. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
- ^ Aguilos, Pia (March 4, 2020). "Two SteamWorld Games Are Now Available On Stadia". whatoplay. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
- ^ Gartenberg, Chaim (October 20, 2020). "Hands-on with Amazon's Luna game streaming service". The Verge. Retrieved December 19, 2022.