SteamWorld Heist 2015

Is it still worth playing?

Captain Piper Faraday and her crew of steam driven robots board ships in this turn based tactics game from December 2015, seen from the side, first on the 3DS and on most systems since. The Scrappers' ship comes first, then the Royalists' under the Red Queen, and at last the hive mind Vectron's. Shooting is aimed by hand, with no percentages: you line up the shot yourself, and a bullet off a wall and round a corner is a trick shot that gets past a shield. Hats are the loot that matters, since shooting one off an enemy's head lets you wear it. Ships are laid out afresh each mission, and loot is water, the currency, with new guns. It shares a universe with SteamWorld Dig, and its dialogue is gibberish with vocal music tracks. The ricochet still makes the clever shot the one you aimed, not the one the dice gave you.