Image & Form’s SteamWorld franchise began back with SteamWorld Tower Defense which was a DSiware title. The franchise finally had a breakthrough hit with SteamWorld Dig that was released on Nintendo 3DS before seeing multiple ports following. Since then, the Swedish studio released two of my favourite indie games of all time with SteamWorld Dig 2 and SteamWorld Heist so I had high expectations when I played SteamWorld Quest on Nintendo Switch.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech ($9.99) was one of the biggest surprises for me when I played it on Nintendo Switch. The game’s overall quality wasn’t surprising given Image & Form’s track record with the SteamWorld games but the sheer polish in the gameplay and visuals was above anything the team had done before and the studio’s first attempt at a card battler ended up being amazing. Fast forward to last month and the card battling RPG SteamWorld Quest has hit iOS as a universal premium game bringing the complete adventure to mobile for the first time.
SteamWorld Quest is Image & Form’s first major iOS game since the awesome SteamWorld Heist hit the platform back in 2016. Read Shaun’s review of that here. SteamWorld Heist felt like a perfect fit for touchscreens with its strategic turn based gameplay and I thought of the same thing when I played SteamWorld Quest on Nintendo Switch. I was actually surprised that SteamWorld Quest on Nintendo Switch had no touchscreen su...