SteamWorld Build - Between mayor and mine manager

Hunter of lost treasures - In the game SteamWorld Build, you can try your hand at being the mayor of your own little SteamWorld. Houses have to be built and stores have to be stomped out of the barren desert ground. However, you and your fellow settlers don't just do it for the fun of building. The aim is to reopen an old mine in order to find something old and supposedly valuable deep underground.

Small creatures, big dreams

The story of SteamWorld Build revolves around a small group of robots in search of a new home. They have had enough from the sand and dust of the planet. After all, the air is not good for the joints and the robots have to lubricate themselves far too often in order to function at all. That's why they strive to fly into space and find a new home there. When a robot called Pa arrives in Desert sand comes across an AI core that is half-buried in the ground, the industrious robot digs it up.

In return, the AI tells him that there is a real treasure trove of old technology hidden in the depths of SteamWorld. It is precisely this technology that the robots could use to finally leave SteamWorld. Pa therefore gathers some motivated colleagues around him to found a new settlement with them and explore the deeper layers of the planet through a disused mine.

Mayoral duties in SteamWorld Build

For the latest installment in the SteamWorld saga, the Thunderful Development Team has this time chosen the Genre of construction simulation made. Before you can start your big mining adventure, you first have to build a thriving little steam western town. After all, you need energetic workers to be able to let off steam underground later on. For beginners in construction simulations, the game offers a nice little tutorial that allows you to learn the basic mechanics of your mayor's job without driving the settlement to the brink of its existence.

In good You first have to build houses for the workers and collect resources such as stones or oil. To keep the workers happy, a brewery and a saloon are built, for example, but this can also lead to fights and crime. You must therefore adapt to the different situations and develop your city so that you have happy and productive workers around you.

The intoxication of gold

As soon as you have a functioning city labor-hungry robots built Once you've completed the first level, you can get the old mine up and running again and explore the second level of the game from publisher Thunderful Publishing. Underground, SteamWorld Build mutates and becomes a mining simulator. You can find ores such as gold and copper here, which can be turned into money on the upper world. But the ores can also be used to develop new tools and machines, so you have to weigh up carefully what you do with the glittering stones.

Really exciting mine exploration then in the deeper layers. Not only precious metals await your miners here, but also a whole host of dangers. Among other things, the tunnels are unstable and could collapse at any second. They must be supported and secured accordingly. There also appear to be life forms underground that are anything but friendly to you and your workers. Accordingly, you will have to take defensive measures if your workers are caught searching for the lost technologies. be successful in SteamWorld Build should.

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A game key for SteamWorld Build was kindly sent to us via keymailer.co made available.