Steam King Hacked

Steam King wants to be a goofy, fun, silly game, and it is, but it does feel like its pacing is holding it back. You have to be upgrades in specific orders, which makes it frustrating to have to spend precious, slowly amassed cogs on upgrades you might not want just to get to one you do. The levels tend to be nice and big, allowing plenty of opportunities to replenish your cogs, though they're also a little slow to showcase variety initially. Stick with it, however, and Steam King ups the ante nicely, with a lot of different enemies, hazards, boulders to push, power-ups to find, and more. It plays like a very classic platformer, allowing you to hop and blast away at most enemies incapable of stepping down off a ledge after you and only letting you fire in a straight line, but that's sort of part of the charm. It's a game I found myself having to warm up to because of how simplistic and easy it initially seems, but the more I played it, the more I found myself liking it. It's still a little clunky in movement and control compared to some other games in the genre, but its style and increasingly creative, sprawling levels, and classic boss battles earn a lot of marks in its favour. You could probably do without the annoying enemy knock-back when the flying enemies start bouncing you around like a pinball when they show up in number, and it make take a while to start really showing off, but Steam King is a quirky and challenging classic platformer that is a welcome addition to the genre.