SteamWorld Heist II

Make the call based on whether precise, turn-based firefights with ricochet shots and real-time naval battles appeal to you. At $3.81 from Eneba, the offer is at its tracked low, and the mix of crew planning and ship combat defines the adventure. The player rating, 93% positive from 2,228 reviews, adds another point of reference. At $3.81 from Eneba, this is the tracked low; the blend of tactical missions and naval battles, alongside 93% positive from 2,228 reviews, can help you judge the fit.

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93%Steam Reviews2.2K reviews81Metacritic/10082OpenCritic/100

Released: Aug 8, 2024

Funny · Turn-Based Tactics · Singleplayer · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based

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01About SteamWorld Heist II

As Captain Leeway, lead a crew of steambots through a water crisis threatening machine life. Plan turn-based firefights by positioning crew and aiming carefully; bullets can ricochet off walls. At sea, take on real-time ship battles, and tailor your crew with weapons, items, and upgrades. Steam PC player rating: 93% positive from 2,228 reviews. Supported interfaces: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian.

Credits

Developer

Thunderful Development

Publisher

Thunderful Publishing

Steam player reviews

93%positiveVery Positive2,228 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$4.592026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	Yes	—
Italian	Yes	Yes	—
German	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish	Yes	Yes	—
Japanese	Yes	Yes	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	Yes	—
Russian	Yes	Yes	—
Polish	Yes	Yes	—
Ukrainian	Yes	Yes	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-22

02Before you buy

Combat and controls

The Steam PC version combines turn-based firefights with ricochet shots and real-time naval battles. Full controller support is listed.

Language

English is supported for interface and full audio on Steam PC. Other supported languages are listed with subtitles.

03Frequently asked questions

What is SteamWorld Heist II about?

You lead Captain Leeway's steambots to uncover the source of a water crisis threatening machine life.

Can shots ricochet?

Yes. Shots can bounce off walls, letting you line up trick shots during turn-based combat.

Are there naval battles?

Yes. The game includes real-time naval combat alongside its turn-based missions.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

08/08/2024

I played every single SteamWorld game (even the forgotten one for DSi/3DS, SteamWorld Tower Defense) and I have to admit: While the original SteamWorld Dig was my all-time favourite for a long time, SteamWorld Heist II (SWH2) is the game that finally took its place. The graphics are beautiful. With the addition of dynamic lighting, it really adds more depth to the even more improved 2D style. The map is a very nice upgrade to the first Heist, as it really feels like you are on the shard / overworld and not just on a map. The steering is a bit wonky, but adds to the challenge. I also like the fact that there are lots of secrets to uncover. The new job system is easy to learn, but also easy to miss. One mission brings it up, and it's really worth taking time to get into it, as it really adds much depth - and extremely fun and almost OP techniques - to your trick shots. One time I was able to shoot 42 times with ONE character during ONE TURN because I used the right combination of skills from different jobs on that character. Gives you some real #BigSteveEnergy! Without using the new job-system, some levels might be very hard even on lower difficulties. It takes some time to level jobs, and you will have to replay some levels you already completed for sure, but it's very much worth the time! I beat the game (story wise) at a playtime of 28 hours and I still have to complete all levels on full stars as well as collecting all the hats and level-up all teammates to the max. It has lots of replay value for sure! I was shocked when I thought the game was almost over, and I was actually only halfway in. At first, I was very skeptical about the new cast of playable characters, as Heist players like me are very used to Piper and her Crew. But I got to love them really quickly and following their individual background stories as well as the games' story, I really felt like they grew together like a family. Especially after the one VERY spoilery event that made things kinda emotionally on Captain Leeway's side. #CharacterDevelopmentDoneRight The story is brilliant. It's nothing that deep and nothing extraordinarily new, sure. But it fits really well into the SteamWorld lore and adds a lot of new context to what happened in space after the Earth exploded at the end of SteamWorld Dig 2 / SteamWorld Build. It also captures the SteamWorld humour very well. SWH2 has cool references (that I won't spoil) to the first Heist, as well as some other titles. One was a very QUESTy surprise at the very end of the game, so keep playing!Show moreShow less

53.5 hours at review138 people found this helpful

Received for free

Not recommendedSteam player

08/22/2024

I was hyped as hell for this after loving the first installment - it comes as a shock that I'd feel the need to give a thumbs down for this after 9 hours of playing. More isn't necessarily better, something that too many studios fail to appropriately grasp: - The overworld is tedious, as it's essentially here to inflate gameplay time through not-so-good real time combat. The whole point of the game is the turn-based tactics, adding anything else that isn't 10/10 in between makes the whole experience more annoying. It makes going back to earlier levels a chore, too. - I don't remember the first installment having so much constant reinforcement right from the get go. Suddenly, it's not about strategizing against a specific enemy setup, but rather managing to survive long enough against an unending onslaught of enemies. What that does, is make you feel that the issue isn't so much the strategy you used, but rather the fact you haven't farmed enough to get better gear for your characters and level them up. It leads to a vicious circle as the difficulty makes you flee the level before you can grab all the loot (and sometimes even the epic one), which means less stuff to improve your characters, which means the next level is gonna feel even tougher, and so on and so forth. Of course, the solution for me would be to lower the difficulty. But once you do that, you absolutely stomp the enemies and there's no challenge/thinking needed anymore. Some of the enemies' powers (damage, stuff they spawn) are literally halved between the third highest difficulty and the second highest. This leads an absolutely gorgeous game full of personality and promise to be a tiring experience that felt like a chore right as I was entering the second zone. This isn't a bad game per se of course, but the result in terms of fun vs. what it could be unfortunately warrants this negative review.Show moreShow less

9.1 hours at review32 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

08/08/2024

They have a professionally produced song from a real band about how you can wear hats on your head made for the sole purpose of playing inside hat storesShow moreShow less

71 hours at review71 people found this helpful

Received for free

Not recommendedSteam player

08/12/2024

Ugh, I really want to give this game a good review. It gets a lot right for a tactics type game, but it falls into the worst and most major sin: Reinforcements. I get it. You want your game to be challenging, and giving players too much time means they can crawl their way through. But why, why in god's name would you think the solution is to spam adds at random throughout the stage? The entire game is about positioning and reinforcements literally flip over the chess board. You can do everything right, but too bad, the game spawned a shotgun guy behind you and now you're dead. It also bloats the turn-end as you monotonously watch the AI cycle through orders for dozens of enemies, half of which you don't care about. It doesn't even solve the main issue, because I'm just going to reload and account for this lazy garbage. It changes nothing at all about the problem. There was every opportunity to do better here, with the way the game works making beefier enemies with more skills would have worked. Even a rising water level, you set it up perfectly with the polluted water story! But no. Random adds. Disappointing.Show moreShow less

5.5 hours at review32 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

09/02/2024

I really loved the first game, and I the sequel is excellent as well! I beat the game in 42 hours (higher than what Steam reports as I played a good bit offline on my Steam Deck), which included getting full stars on all missions, unlocking all upgrades, and unlocking all crew. Pros + Great combat, which is like a combination of turn-based tactics and the Worms games :) + Beautiful visuals + Fun story + Very satisfying to have a turn where multiple abilities work together to let you get a lot of kills/deal a lot of damage + Hats! 🎩 + Moving around the overworld in the submarine and having some real-time combat was fun and a change of pace between missions Neutral * Job system -- I'm a little mixed here. You level up a character's "job" based on their currently equipped weapon type (e.g. sniper). All abilities are active for their current job, and you can enable abilities from their other jobs they have leveled up using a limited amount of "cogs". What seemed to make sense to me was get each character's main job up to level 5, but also cycle through the other jobs to get characters to level 2-3 for most other jobs (otherwise you are missing out on other abilities/synergies and sitting on unused "cogs"). So it's good that it forces a little experimentation and lets you unlock abilities, but through the mid to late game I felt like I was constantly swapping weapons around to try to get characters leveled up, so they were rarely being used for their "best" job. There were some really neat combinations I found, but most I didn't discover until the game was about over. Cons - No way to inspect your characters, enemies, etc. which is unfortunate. This is pretty much expected in most tactics/strategy games (for example, to see what status effects a character has and what they mean, the movement range of enemies, etc). - UI for some of the floor hazards could use some work. For example, if a player ends a turn on some tiles they will get a negative status effect. Most of the time you get warned with a big ⚠️ symbol on your move cursor, but if that tile also has an item or interactive element, it will just display the ⚙️symbol indicating interaction. IMO, it should display both symbols to avoid a user moving to a tile not realizing they would take the negative status effect. - Alarms/countdown timers -- It seems that just about every mission is forcing you to be aggressive because of "alarms" that will increasingly spawn more enemies or achieve the objective in X turns. You can mitigate this a good bit by using custom difficulty and turning "mission urgency" all the way down. While I don't mind this concept entirely, I found its frequency annoying (way more than the first game from what I can recall) - I was surprised to never unlock any kind of fast travel ability. While I overall liked the overworld and submarine combat, I would have found it useful a few times in the 2nd half of the game to be able to warp between bars or something. Overall a great game! 4/5Show moreShow less

34.6 hours at review47 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

12/02/2024

Comparing this to games like XCOM is not fair. Those games rely on a strictly RNG based system, where you move a piece into a position where they can see an enemy and then they attempt to take a shot, usually giving you a % chance of success, and a % chance of a critical success. This game doesn't do that, instead after you move your pieces to where you want them to be you have to manually aim your shot and take it, this completely changes the formula of these games. Instead of a 90% shot missing and killing your favourite piece basically rendering the mission unwinnable instead you are the reason you missed, and you can improve on that aim. Rather than an entire game based on micro and macro risk-management you're instead encouraged to work on your aim alongside your positioning. Also this has the bonus effect of allowing for some crazy outcomes when shots miss there mark, possibly hitting other enemies or scenery or even friends, which isn't always a bad thing! Also this game has a deep and rewarding class based system. Usually games go piece 1 is class A, locking them into a tree of skills, sometimes even locking down what weapon they can use and in some cases making them useless because your class A pile is huge and full of max levels but your piece C pile is basically empty. Others allow you to select whatever classes you want and you quickly and easily find a formula which suits you and renders the entire game effortless. This game manages to split the difference with a very clever system. When you recruit a new character this character will come with a weapon and, usually, a personality befitting one of the class archetypes. You may keep this weapon and follow this character's archetype or you can change the weapon and, depending on what family of weapon you give them (Shotgun, rifle, pistol etc) the class they are will change as well, and all of the class abilities they have access to. That's not all, with the levels from all of the other classes that you have levelled on this piece you can pick up skills from those class trees, nowhere near as many as if you were that class, but enough to really boost the power of your character. Alongside this you have weapons of different tier and rarities, a legendary level 1 pistol probably won't be as good as a tier 12 pistol for example, and you can only bring classes that you have the weapons for, AND each character has their own character skill. Combine this all together and you have a really interesting choice when organizing your team for each mission, do I bring piece A and piece B; they both want a shotgun since that's their main class but I only really have one good shotgun, and if I bring them with a rifle they could level up enough to gain access to this skill which makes their shotgunning so much better! This rewarding experience encourages the player to branch out and take risks when making their team. When added the together the overarching story of levelling up each character and moulding them into the soldier you want them to be, and the rewarding gameplay which makes the act of doing that moulding just fun to engage in. Add on top of that a fun (but not anything groundbreaking (unless you've played a lot of the Steamworld games in which case it's a lovely little tale)) storyline, great art and fantastic music (and sound design in general) and you have one of my favourite games of 2024. An absolute gem which does the original proud and a truly wonderful experience. P.S: I didn't even mention the overworld actions which are absolutely great little breaks between the intense missions.Show moreShow less

31.7 hours at review45 people found this helpful

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.