This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games. This time, SteamWorld Heist [official site].
SteamWorld Heist is a tactics game about boarding procedural spaceships with a squad of desperado robots and grabbing all the swag you can before they re turned to scrap. It s also a cross-genre oddity, a turn-based platformer, with presentation and polish that comes across a bit like a Nintendo fan fell in love with XCOM.
But while that observation is essentially true and it s a big part of Heist s rust-bucket charm, it ignores the real reason why it s so great. And the reason why SteamWorld Heist so great? It s down to a single simple-sounding feature:
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