History VideoGame / SteamWorldHeist

* CargoCult[=/=]AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: The Ancient Steam, a rare treasure you might find on Vectron missions, is a clothes iron. It is believed by the bots to be the first steambot, defending itself with its electrical whip (its plug) and flying with its steam jets (the part where steam comes out to iron the clothes).

* CharacterCustomization: Hats hats hats. To get more hats, you have to shoot them off your enemies' heads, merely killing them will not make their hat obtainable. There's also a hat store!

* XMeetsY: It's VideoGame/XCom in a {{Steampunk}} rendition of Series/{{Firefly}}.

* IncendiaryExponent: Oil. It drips from certain valves, it spills from breakable barrels, it comes in grenade form and certain enemies can douse your 'bots in it (they will also spill some when they die). If shot with anything, it goes up in flames, doing damage to anything in it or next to it.

** Bonus points when you learn [[spoiler: most of the Scrappers are zombie robots assembled from pieces of Steambots killed by their brethren.]]

* ConArtist: Payroll. He's also one of approximately two crew members we hire rather than save or convince into joining.

* EarWorm: The songs, performed by [[Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe]]. All of them.

* EarWorm: The songs. All of them.

** And when the credits roll? "SteamWorld Heist: [[Television/{{Firefly}} You can't take the swag from me.]]"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Whenever Bea gets shot, you can see her saying "Whiskey foxtrot tango', which is 'WTF' in the phonetic alphabet.

The game utilizes a side-view akin to a side-scroller, but handles similarly to the rebooted XCom in terms of equipment, movement, cover and combat phases.

* FilkSong: The bars play songs from SteamPoweredGiraffe. There are also special songs for when you defeat a zone boss.

* WilliamTelling: You can only gain a hat worn by an enemy if you shoot it off first. Especially important for bosses. Thankfully, if a hat is ever shot off one of your 'bots, you won't lose it from the equipment list (but you can go back it put it on agai if you find where it fell!).

A TurnBasedStrategy game for the Nintendo3DS released on December 10th, 2015, taking place in the SharedUniverse as the preceding Steamworld title, SteamWorldDig.

* Expy: Several of these.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Bea's multi-shot passive when coupled with a multi-shot weapon like the Desolator inundates the already-cramped spaceships with things that go boom. While invaluable during boss fights or to cull the RespawningEnemies overcrowding you. Be mindful of oil patches and FriendlyFire.

** There's a gun in the Royals model line named [[Music/{{Prince}} Princely]] the description to which promises [[PurpleRain purple pain]].

* SpacePirates: Technically speaking, Piper and her crew, although Seabrass, with his peg leg and MobyDickShtick, is the brightest example of the three.

* FantasticRacism: Steambots vs Dieselbots.
* FilkSong: The bars play songs from SteamPoweredGiraffes. There are also special songs for when you defeat a zone boss.

* AmazonBrigade: Once your team grows enough, you can easily deploy an all-girl team. In fact, the lineup for said team (Piper, Sally, Beatrix) is very balanced between brutality and accuracy.

The Earth, as it was in Dig, is no more. Kaputski. An EarthShatteringKaboom has turned it into a bajillion pieces floating in space, and so the Steambots now ride their steamboats across the vastness of the Cosmos and squabble over the preciois resources from its pieces.

The player takes command of space pirate captain Piper Faraday, and will lead her and her ever-growing crew into battle - first against the maniacal Scrappers that killed most of her old crew, and then against the [[EvilEmpire Queen's Royal Space Force]], the oppressive diesel-powered water-independant agressors that they are.