In lower levels, there are monsters you need to protect your workers against by building defences and weapons. Below ground, you direct the robots to mine for resources and expand the shafts, building support pillars and machinery to help them. While it starts simply, soon careful planning of your town's layout is required to maintain efficiency.Īs you progress you realise that your robots have complex needs that require further buildings and resources keeping all your subjects satisfied is another part of the challenge. The materials you gather enable you to create more buildings and unlock new robots and so the cycle continues. Play is about building infrastructure chains and directing the robots to complete tasks and gather resources. You slowly expand your settlement with more robots, delving ever deeper and expanding ever outwards as you slowly acquire the resources and tools you need. You manage a small colony of steam-powered robots setting up an outpost over an old mineshaft and start building a rocket to save you from the disaster. It stands out for this multi-level gameplay and how your designs on the surface and those underground must complement each other by providing the necessary equipment and items.Ī strange (and doomed) alien world is covered by an arid desert and ancient ruins. You place buildings, fortify defences, lay roads and then direct civilians to do jobs above ground and in the mines below. Steamworld Build is a strategy simulation game where you build and manage a city and underground mine with monsters lurking in the deep.

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