Thunderful says no genre is off the table for new SteamWorld games
Thunderful has said that no genre is off the table for future SteamWorld games.
In an interview with Xbox Expansion Pass, SteamWorld franchise director Brjann Sigurgeirsson said Thunderful wants to keep taking the series in new directions, although it isn’t ruling out more direct sequels to existing games either.
Since the series launched in 2010, five games covering a variety of genres have been released: SteamWorld Tower Defense, SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Heist, SteamWorld Dig 2 and SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech.
There are currently several unannounced SteamWorld titles in development alongside SteamWorld Headhunter, which was announced in November 2021, and SteamWorld Build, which was revealed last month.
“Is there any genre that we feel yeah, let’s not go there? No, not really,” Sigurgeirsson told Xbox Expansion Pass, although he added that he finds horror games difficult to stomach, so making a scary game isn’t top of his list.
“I really love the idea that SteamWorld is open in every direction. I mean, now it’s a card game, it’s a town builder slash a dungeon crawler, there are two Dig games, there’s a turn-based tactics game, there’s a tower defence game. It’s like, wouldn’t it be great to be able to surprise with every, or every other announcement? For me that just sounds so good.
“Imagine the alternative, that we were locked into this genre and we were just making sequels. How boring would it be to talk to us every time? ‘So tell us, SteamWorld Dig 35, how is it different from number 34?’. I think this is infinitely better to do, so we’re not scared of any genre, we’re ready to take on anything that makes sense.”
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