Steamburg

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Steamburg is a character-based Puzzle game that takes place in an alternate past where Earth was invaded by giant alien robots. Their only weakness is giant Tesla coils that have been erected around the city. Throughout the game, it is your job to clear a path for the robots to approach these towers, and then lure them there.

The game’s presentation is pretty good here, with the unique Tesla/Steampunk aesthetic well realized throughout the game and its story. Graphically, the game isn’t much to look at, but the way the game looks and sounds works well enough.

As for the gameplay, I felt that there were problems that kept this game from being more fun than it is. Firstly, your character’s walking speed in the game is agonizingly slow, which makes playing through these levels far more tedious than it should be. On top of this, while in each level you’re given electrical charges you can set to lure the robots, you’re only given a limited number, and if you screw up the placement of one, you may be stuck restarting the level. Also, the Tesla towers are lethal to your character as well, and it’s not easy to tell how close characters have to be to them to set them off.

The result of these issues is a game with a good concept, but one that’s just not very fun to play. Steamburg has some good ideas at work here, but it’s hard to get past its frustrations.

tl;dr – Steamburg is a character-based Puzzle game that has you luring giant robots to Tesla towers to be destroyed. It’s a game with a great theme and good puzzle ideas, but it’s undone by numerous problems that make it a tedious slog to play.

Grade: C+

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