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It\u2019s kind of an odd shift for a sequel to go from an outer space setting to a nautical one, but SteamWorld games have never shied away from being kind of odd. In fact, it\u2019s their whole thing. There are direct connections between the silly swashbuckling story of SteamWorld Heist 2 and the original from 2015, but those take a while to show up \u2013 instead, much of Heist 2 feels completely separate as it gives you control of a submarine and a crew full of goofy robots in a colorfully cartoony ocean. This adventure takes place on a surprisingly large overworld map that\u2019s packed with so many tough and tactically deep turn-based missions and lighter side activities that burning through them all took me around 40 hours. <\/p>\n

The plot that ensues is appropriately light and fun, revolving around our borderline-competent one-armed captain, Quincy Leeway. He\u2019s trying to escape the shadow of his famous mother and gathering a crew to discover the source of a rusty corruption that\u2019s poisoning the water. I wouldn\u2019t call any of the surprises shocking or its characters especially memorable (I suspect they\u2019d be easier to love if their dialogue were fully voiced) but its robotic heart is firmly in the right place. <\/p>\n

What we said about SteamWorld Heist<\/h2>\n

SteamWorld Heist stole my heart. The characters are charming, the combat is addictive, and the Firefly-style adventure made every battle a blast. Besides some annoying instances of post-battle maintenance, I rarely felt the need to power down these robots. – Dave Rudden, December 16, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

Score:<\/strong> 8.8<\/h2>\n

Read the full SteamWorld Heist review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is<\/em> memorable is the music, for which the relentlessly charming band Steam Powered Giraffe returns with 15 delightfully catchy original songs that play when you\u2019re visiting taverns between missions. I often found myself hanging around a little longer than I needed to in order to let them finish a verse about how nice it is to be a robot before heading back to my ship.<\/p>\n

SteamWorld Heist 2\u2019s 2D turn-based tactical gameplay is very similar to the original, but the controls are notably smoother (albeit still a little wonky on mouse and keyboard). Moving your team of one to five bots (depending on the mission) around a side-scrolling level to line up shots and snag loot within their two-action turns is a tricky challenge of efficiency, and having to escape an endlessly increasing stream of enemies as you complete a specific objective rather than just trying to clear the map gives a lot of missions a thrilling finale.<\/p>\n

Manual aiming gives it a little more life than a lot of turn-based games.<\/p>\n

The fact that all of the aiming is done manually by raising or lowering the angle of your bots\u2019 gun arms \u2013 in the style of the classic Worms games \u2013 gives it a little more life than a lot of turn-based games. It\u2019s pretty hilarious to watch the projected path of a shot from a piercing sniper rifle as you slide it around until it passes through several enemies, then let it fly at the right moment of its gently wobbling sway. That said, you\u2019d have to be a geometric savant to predict what multiple bank shots you\u2019ll be able to line up without moving somewhere first and seeing where the guideline ends up pointing, so a lot of those feel like random lucky rewards rather than something earned. I do feel pretty proud of myself when I successfully land a ricochet shot to hit an enemy behind cover using a weapon that doesn\u2019t have the guideline, though.<\/p>\n

Each character starts with a native class that you level up, but you\u2019re strongly encouraged to turn them all into hybrid beasts that mix and match abilities from the six different trees. It\u2019s a very smart and flexible system once you get going, though a lot of that unlocking process, which requires a bot to run missions with each class\u2019s signature weapon type, feels obligatory. You\u2019d be foolish, for instance, to not unlock the first-tier powers of the Sniper and the Boomer on just about everybody: the former allows you to use a Perfect Aim ability that puts a prediction line on any weapon and removes sway, and the latter lets you equip a third inventory item. And I must say, an upgrade you can buy relatively early on that unlocks the first two full tiers of a class\u2019s skills after using it for just one mission made me seriously regret how I\u2019d chosen to spread my experience points thin up to that point. <\/p>\n

Once things get rolling and you can combine the best skills from each tree with the 10 bots\u2019 unique special abilities, there are a lot of extremely powerful and satisfying tricks you can pull. Moving around the 2D maps is a snap when Beacon can teleport anywhere you\u2019ve seen (with a three-turn cooldown timer), and pairing that with a good brawler\u2019s hammer means there\u2019s no one he can\u2019t smash for high damage. Chimney\u2019s Tit for Tat ability deals damage to anyone who hits her, and that goes very well with the Pain Amulet item that does the same thing because the effects stack. Hightower\u2019s Abs of Steel ability makes him invulnerable and forces every enemy to attack him that turn \u2013 which is excellent for, among other things, buying some time for your crew to make a getaway.<\/p>\n

Notably, SteamWorld Heist 2 does away with some of the original\u2019s annoyances, such as a tightly limited inventory system and procedurally generated levels that felt samey after a bit. These multi-chambered stages are all hand-built around their objectives, and you can keep as much of your loot on hand as you like (though there\u2019s no way to level up early-game items, so a lot of it becomes obsolete junk you have to sell off). There are a good amount of legendary weapons that come with unique modifiers, like a melee hammer that gives you extra damage to your sidearm pistol or a sniper rifle that inflicts burning damage, and I often found myself changing up my tactics to take advantage of a new one. <\/p>\n

There are a lot of variables to consider and threats to prioritize on every mission.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of the campaign I\u2019d cranked up the difficulty a couple of notches to keep the enemies competitive with my heavy-hitting teams. (Difficulty can be fine-tuned to your liking on the fly with different sliders for the tactical and real-time modes, as well as a few other options.) Of course, each mission is thoughtfully designed with layers to it beyond simply accomplishing the main objective with your last bot limping out the door with a sliver of health, enemies nipping at their heels. Getting the maximum rating means you\u2019ll have to come back for another run and go for getting all your bots out alive, then do that while also grabbing all of the loot bags (including the one bit of epic loot), and then <\/em>do the bonus objective \u2013 which can be things like hitting multiple switches during the same turn, killing three enemies by dropping stuff on them, or taking out turrets it\u2019d be easier to dash past on your way to the door. Boss fights also put clever spins on the mechanics and challenge you to deal with multiple problems at once as you\u2019re disabling defenses and bashing away to inflict as much damage as possible.<\/p>\n

Enemy variety is another strong point. The Rattlers are especially neat looking, in that their designs are differentiated from the more typical junkyard androids of the Navy by the fact that they\u2019ve replaced their metal parts with rust-proof ones made of bone (it is unclear where the bones came from). It can be a little tricky to distinguish some of your own bots from the similarly steam-powered Navy enemies until you get to know them better, but with several sets of melee, ranged, and special enemies (like the Rattler who drops totems that can hit your team with elemental damage every turn if you don\u2019t take them out) there are a lot of variables to consider and threats to prioritize on every mission.<\/p>\n

If that sounds overwhelming, know that there are zero consequences for failing a mission \u2013 you just try again (with no fee to repair your bots like in the first SteamWorld Heist). You can also reload a checkpoint from two turns back, so while you can save-scum your way through a mission it\u2019s not quite as easy as undoing the one bad move you just made. Considering there\u2019s no real way to know and plan for what type of bot will be best suited for a mission before you dive in, it\u2019s for the best that failure is very much an option.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s basically a whole second, totally different game built around that idea, which you play as you travel from mission to mission. Where the first SteamWorld Heist\u2019s overworld map is something akin to Super Mario World\u2019s connected nodes, this one is an open-world game unto itself, if a relatively simple and two-dimensional one. The map itself is surprisingly large, and there are plenty of side challenges to engage in to reach treasure chests in which you have to navigate currents or run gauntlets with guns firing on you from both sides. Puttering around this expansive maze of waterways is a nice, lighter break from the turn-based tactics; tangling with enemy watercraft, running occasional obstacle courses, and unlocking routes and shortcuts with new abilities is quite a bit shallower than the main event, but it definitely has a few tense moments because you can\u2019t replenish your sub\u2019s health without docking and ending your day, and getting sunk means losing all your booty. I especially like occasionally coming across battles between fleets of ships from the two main enemy factions going at it and cleaning up the wreckage after I finish them off \u2013 that kind of thing puts a little bit of life and spontaneity into what\u2019s otherwise a pretty static world.<\/p>\n

You can only cruise around for so long, though, because each bot is good for one mission per day. In order to maximize your return before coming in to dock for the night you\u2019ll want to look for mission combos that let you use up everybody on your current roster, which might mean replaying a mission or two. That said, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a time limit or anything, so if you wanted to you could simply do one mission every day and just use the same squad for nearly everything. But that\u2019d be boring (and would leave some of your crew underleveled).<\/p>\n

Combat with boats and other subs is along the lines of \u201cbullet heaven\u201d games like Vampire Survivors, in that your sub fires automatically (as long as a target is within its weapon arcs) while you focus on steering out of the way of incoming cannonballs and torpedoes. There\u2019s certainly some skill to approaching enemies outside of their gun arcs and spinning to line up all of yours, and it gets a little deeper once you unlock the ability to boost your engines and submerge (see what I did there?). SteamWorld Heist 2 does a reliable job of rolling out upgrades to prevent both combat and the satisfying act of uncovering the map\u2019s fog of war from becoming too one-note over the course of three dozen hours. There aren\u2019t a ton of different enemy types to battle out here, but you\u2019ll see enough destroyers, battleships, skiffs, and subs \u2013 and find better guns, engine boosters, armor, and the like to upgrade your sub with \u2013 to keep things interesting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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