Steamburg

Steamburg is a laurel-winning puzzle quest with unique gameplay and a storyline tied to finding objects. The game was developed by Telehorse, a company that works on creating games in the steampunk genre. In March 2017, Steamburg was recognized as the most anticipated game at the International Mobile Game Awards (IMGA) in San Francisco.

The main character, Professor Vincent Moore, fights robots that have captured the city of Steamburg. The gameplay can be called unique, because Vincent is unarmed and must carefully think through every step. His arsenal includes only small electric bombs that attract and briefly slow down robots. Vincent must move along the streets in such a way as to lure the robots into a trap – a Tesla transformer that can destroy them. The game gradually becomes more complex: Vincent faces several robots at once, and they become faster and faster, and some of them can fly and react to every move of the hero.

The way the plot is presented deserves special attention. In 2016, at the international business conference White Nights in Helsinki, Steamburg received an award for the best storytelling technique. From the dialogues, the player learns that Vincent is a scientist who was assigned to test a new weapon in Steamburg. In addition, he is busy looking for his fiancée, who was presumably in the city when it was attacked by robots. Some elements of the plot are directly related to the gameplay. The player can also collect letters and photographs that will tell the love story of Vincent and his fiancée.