Steamworld Build is beautiful and charming, but couldn't quite hook me. The gameplay loop seems to consist of building and harvesting resources so you can build better buildings and harvest better resources. The problem is that there isn't much strategy to building and harvesting. You build where it seems obvious to do so, then do it again. There isn't that sense of long term thinking or engine generation. I didn't feel like I was carefully engineering a well-oiled machine; rather, I was adding on to an agglutinative monstrosity. This isn't a genre I often gravitate to, but I was hoping that Steamworld could make that leap for me.

Reviewed on Dec 13, 2023


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