SteamWorld Build is a new city-builder with Anno and Dungeon Keeper DNA

Thunderful’s series of SteamWorld games have bounced from genre to genre, starting with the original SteamWorld DigThis is a Metroid-inspire platform mining adventure. We are expanding. SteamWorld HeistA tactical, turn-based pirate shootout SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (a card-based role-playing game). With a brand new city-builder, The Station and Thunderful, an internal studio of The Station, are taking SteamWorld in completely different directions. SteamWorld Build.

SteamWorld BuildIt has a unique twist. In addition to being a city builder game, where players are tasked with constructing a thriving mining town above ground, they’ll also have to gather resources underground while contending with mine-dwelling monsters. Thunderful released a statement describing the experience. SteamWorld Build as a blend of Anno, the 25-year-old real-time strategy economic sim that’s now published by Ubisoft, and Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog’s dungeon-management sim.

Here’s a sample of what you can do. SteamWorld Build’s style of double duty building-sim management looks like in its announcement trailer above. Or catch up on Monday’s SteamWorld Telegraph broadcast, which dives deeper into SteamWorld Build.

SteamWorld BuildThe release is scheduled for 2023 and will be available for Nintendo Switch (PS4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC), Xbox One (Xbox One), and Xbox Series X. Developer says it will be available in 2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox 5, as well as Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. Construction is being developed with both PC and consoles in mind, “ensuring that the game’s design, UX and UI all work just as well with a controller in hand, as they do with mouse and keyboard.”

A demo for SteamWorld BuildYou can now get it on Steam.