The game follows a team of sentient steam-poweredhumanoid robots as they travel across a steampunkfantasy world fighting evil.[3] It received generally positive reviews, with critics citing the graphics and gameplay as strong points.
SteamWorld Quest is presented as a fairy tale told within the otherwise science fictionuniverseofSteamWorld Heist and is not directly linked story-wise to the previous games.[4] It follows Armilly and Copernica, two friends who set out on a journey that spirals into a much larger one.[3]
SteamWorld Quest is a side-scrollingvideo game and is separated into small explorable areas that the player is encouraged to loot for treasure. The player may encounter enemies and become engaged in battle. Attacks are performed by collecting punch cards that the robots can use to execute programs. The game uses role-playing game elements, with steam pressure representing mana. The player must build their own deck of attacks using character-specific cards.[3]
SteamWorld Quest received an aggregate score of 81 on Metacritic.[5] Matt Masem of RPGamer rated the game 4.5/5, calling it an "excellent adventure" with "beautiful" animation, and calling the story "wonderfully executed" despite being "standard RPG fare".[3] Tom Marks of IGN gave the game 8.6/10, saying the combat system offers an "insane amount of choice".[13] Nadia Oxford of USgamer rated the game 4/5, criticizing the game as "light on character and worldbuilding" but calling it a "fun, airy RPG".[4]
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