SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider
"SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider is the game’s first DLC pack. Captain Piper stumbles upon a new ally with a past shrouded in mystery. Dive into the action with new playable character and take on new missions…
SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider is an adventure developed by Image & Form, released 28 April 2016 on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Linux.
What SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider is
SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider is an adventure game developed by Image & Form and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider is the game’s first DLC pack. Captain Piper stumbles upon a new ally with a past shrouded in mystery. Dive into the action with new playable character and take on new missions with brand-new weapons, gear and a shipload of hats! All new content blends seamlessly into the game. Aside from starting afresh, you can pick up earlier save files and discover who the outsider is pretty much immediately…"
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
SteamWorld Heist: The Outsider launched on 28 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
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