SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (2019)

SteamWorld Quest is the roleplaying card game you’ve been waiting for! Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a hand-drawn world and build, craft and upgrade your party’s decks in order to stop an ancient menace…

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure Fantasy Science fiction collectible card game jrpg steampunk kid friendly narration fairytale hand-drawn auto-saving drm free previously on - luna plus previously on - prime gaming previously on - stadia proGoogle Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch

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God is a GeekNick GillhamApr 20199/10
A delightfully whimsical steampunk-RPG romp and you'd have to be malfunctioning to miss out on it.
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Handsome PhantomBen SmithApr 201910/10
SteamWorld Quest is a marvel in its own right, and a victory in a genre full of eternally popular bestsellers and beloved franchises.
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OnlySPRebecca Hills-DutyApr 20195/5 stars
SteamWorld Quest: The Hand of Gilgamech is a wonderful, fun RPG adventure that has a lot of depth to delve into, secrets to explore, and story to uncover. The game looks beautiful, sounds brilliant, and has a smooth and absorbing gameplay flow. SteamWorld Quest, is surprisingly easy to get completely sucked in to, with the card game elements providing an impressive amount of complexity to the combat. Any RPG fan should give serious consideration to adding the title to their Nintendo Switch library and fans of previous SteamWorld games will find a lot to enjoy in the art and lore, too.
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Metro GameCentralApr 20196/10
The weakest of the recent SteamWorld games but still an enjoyable, if rather unfair, mix of role-playing game and card-battler.
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GameSpotAlessandro BarbosaApr 20197/10
SteamWorld Quest's accessible take on card-based combat is undermined by an uneven difficulty curve that frustrates more than it encourages.
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About the game

Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Image & Form
Publisher: Thunderful
Released: April 25, 2019
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Side view
Engine: Custom Engine

IGDB rating 8.0/10 from 43 ratings.

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