As many of you are likely aware, SteamWorld Dig is due to receive a sequel in the near future. Taking a vastly different approach than the Metroidvania-esque gameplay of the first game, SteamWorld Heist is an interesting shooter/turn based strategy hybrid that carries a lot of promise with its spacefaring setting. It's a release that we're definitely looking forward to, and if we're lucky, it'll be releasing before the year is out.
Gamer Professionals recently conducted an interview with Brjánn Sigurgeirsson – the CEO of Image & Form – and a question naturally arose about the game's release date. Unfortunately, Sigurgeirsson didn't have a firm date to announce, but he did say that they are aiming for an early December release. Here's the quote:
Our goal is to aim for a release in early December… but I won't make promises.
Hopefully they can hit this window, as this would be an excellent pre-Holiday treat. Here's a video of the game in action from this year's PAX:
What do you think? Will this be better than Dig? Where do you think the series will go next? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source gamerpros.co]
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Thank you so much for posting the interview. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to do so. It's much appreciated and hope we can work together again!
I really had no interest in Dig but I got it in the Nindie bundle so decided to give it a try. I'm abut 4 or 5 hours in adn have been really enjoying it. Even w/ all my Game Over screens - I'm really not playing it all that well - I'm still having fun. Just when it gets to repetitive new transports open up and new tools arrive. Very well done.
@rjejr Took me by surprise too.It was one of the first games I got for my Wii U and the first one I beat but I only picked it up as it was on sale and wanted to bulk up my library,otherwise I mightn't have ever got round to it.Gave it a go and was hooked straight away,great game.
Really looking forward to this, I love how the combat looks.
Dig is great I really enjoyed it, @rjejr is right, they absolutely nailed the introduction of new stuff and upgrades, it's didn't ever get stale.
@rjejr @SethNintendo Well if he plays games anything like me my first run took about 10 hours. I like to take my time and explore.
@rjejr @SethNintendo Well if he plays games anything like me my first run took about 10 hours. I like to take my time and explore.
I'm not so patiently waiting for this and December seems so far away.......
@Spoony_Tech What, no faux surprise at my actually liking something? If there's a final boss that takes me 13 tries to be beat I could be playing awhile. And I think the first guy missed the part about all of my game over screens. I could be near the bottom - just reached the big bomb throwing drunkards straight out of Plants VA Zombies - but I still need to get thru a couple of caves, big Blick pyramid and spike pits between the walls. And I keep forgetting I have the drill. And I don't buy a lit of transports so I spend A LOT of time backtracking. Still, it's zen fun once I got past my first game over screen, I feared a Star fox game over screen, as it starting from 0, I wouldn't be having any fun then.
@rjejr Well it's merely on Nintendo systems and technically not a Nintendo game so I'm not too surprised.
@Spoony_Tech But I like Nintedo games - that's why I spend so much time on this website - it's everything else that Ntineod does I have a problem w/, and that's why 80% of my comments are negative, b/c 80% of the stuff on here is non-game related, it's all - where's the price drop, where's the next ND, where's the tv commercials, where's the Zelda U footage, where's the next Club Nintneod, where's the amiibo stock. If Nintneod would give me some games maybe I could enjoy them. OK, maybe they were blind-sided by how poorly Wii U was received, and the loss of a president is going to disrupt any company, but at some point you need to put on your big boy pants and release some games, or at least some game news. They haven't even talked about their new DeNA game yet, only that it's due out this year; not the IP, no screenshots, nothing, only that it's due out this year, like Starfox and Zelda U. Oh wait.
And Projects Guard and Giant Robot.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/project_giant_robot_will_be_out_sooner_than_you_probably_expect
OK, sorry about that, got a Wii bit carried away.
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