SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

love the whole steam world franchise but this is my favorite entry so far.

What is this game?

"Steamworld Quest" is an RPG card battler with a heavy emphasis on story.

Price/replay value

Horrible - Bad - Decent - Good - Amazing

Achievement hunting

These achievements heavily vary in difficulty and rng requirements. Some require you to do basic grinds, e.g. 100k damage of a specific element, whilst others require you to do 20k dmg in a single hit. - Thing is that because of the way hands draw you're heavily required to rely on rng for the 20k dmg, meaning you'll have to try countless times to get that one.

Pros/cons

Pros

• Great music and visuals
  
• Decent story
  
• A lot of deck variety
  

Cons

• Late game feels half baked (grinding xp, gold, materials... Midas cup...)
  
• Final few bosses go from incredibly unfair to way too easy
  
[*]Forced to skip through all dialogue upon chapter replay

Overall opinion

Like every other Steamworld game, I enjoyed my time. But this one stuck out to me due to its repetitive post game, making it quite tedious to complete.

-The main story is alright, it isn't a masterpiece of writing, but it's engaging enough to see where it goes next.
-The variety in cards, decks, and team combos is great, and it allows you to make some interesting strategies. And everything until chapter 18 felt worthwhile in my opinion.

-The final boss was a pushover for some reason, whilst the one before it could randomly 2 shot your max geared team if they felt like it.
-The Midas cup felt like a cool idea, but poorly executed. You essentially fight all previous story bosses, but they're buffed massively, and you only get 7 turns before instantly dying. These bosses usually rely on rng as a simple confusion proc could end your entire run. Add to the fact it's like 5 battles long, and you get an infuriating post game.

tldr;

Alright as a genre introduction, don't recommend achievement hunting.

Should you buy it?

If it's on sale, yeah. Full price? No.

Steamworld games rock! Please add support for all your games on GEFORCE NOW!!!

It really is a unique experience just like the other Steam-world games. With every new card game trying to be the next big rouge-lite this hand crafted gem has a lot of thought and love put into it. from the characters, music and backgrounds, which are just beautiful to the cards themselves where there are so many decks and party combinations to try out. the fact that the game is not a rouge-lite makes it so easy to experiment with new concepts without restarting runs.
In conclusion: if you like card games and want a new and very fun take on the genre I would highly recommend this title especially if its on sale.

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The first of the many SteamWorld games that felt like it started to wear out its welcome a little bit by the end. The combat system is fun, but party/deck variety is quite limited. With new cards being pretty rare (and often not worth experimenting with), you're likely to arrive at your ideal deck somewhat early on, and once you do, battles can start to feel rather repetitive. And it certainly doesn't help the repetitious feeling that you have to fight the same bosses over and over again. But there's still a lot to admire here and I hope Quest eventually gets a direct sequel like Dig and Heist did to smooth out its rough edges and increase the depth.

not that hard or deep - game play is pretty solid - story a bit dry but I enjoyed it

I came here expecting a Slay the Spire inspired Steamworld game but it works almost like Odin Sphere meets Inscryption (though not on the level of quality of either of them). This is a card battler RPG where you explore closed off, hand drawn rooms that sometimes have secrets and lead to uncharted, secret rooms, and sometimes you do battle! You need to create energy with free cards so you can use cards that costs said energy. You can only play 3 per turn across all characters (though there are limited exceptions) and cards have synergies all across all playable characters. You unlock new cards by forging them through acquired materials, finding them in chests or acquiring them through story events. There's status effects, buffs, debuffs, all you can imagine an RPG having. It's not very complicated but I'm having so much fun, the world is so beautiful and the music is so good that I don't even care I'm not finished yet. I'm at chapter 13 out of 19 total and I know I'm going to love the rest of the game, so I heartily recommend it if you want a game that's just pleasant and will challenge you just enough to not be frustrating in my opinion (though, a needed disclaimer: I'm playing on Normal difficulty).