History Main / PhlebotinumInducedSteampunk

* The world of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' has rapidly advanced from early modern to steampunk-ish levels of technology in the span of roughly 50 years thanks to the invention of orbments, machines that extract "orbal energy" from crystalline circuits made out of naturally-occurring minerals. Note that while the ''Sky'' trilogy generally sticks fairly close to SteamPunk and ClockPunk, with a few exceptions here and there, though later entries in the wider ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' take things much farther, into DieselPunk and straight-up modern territory.

* ''Literature/{{Airborn}}'' makes use of hydrium, a fictional gas that’s as light as hydrogen… with none of the… explosive risks. The setting uses it to justify CoolAirships being the primary form of long-distance travel, instead of airplanes.

* In ''Anime/{{Levius}}'' the discovery of Agartha Water, which burns with much higher pressure than regular water when boiled and has a steam that can be controlled by the human mind to a certain extent, is the reason why steam-powered ArtificialLimbs have reached such an apogee.
* ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'' takes place in an alternate 19th century Europe where Albion discovered [[PublicDomainArtifact cavorite]], an anti-gravity mineral. It fueled a technological revolution in Albion that allowed the nation to build high-technology airships and become a world superpower. Albion itself looks very steampunk, with all the trappings of Victorian London.

* ''GameMod/RedAlert3Paradox'': The [[ChurchMilitant Order of the Talon]]'s steam-powered tech is capable of going toe-to-toe with the WeirdScience of the Allies and the Mecha of Japan and coming out on top thanks to the impossibly tough "Talon Steel". With Talon Steel, the Order's steam boilers can be at incredibly high heat and pressure without issue, and the same resilience allow Talon Steel clockwork to be wound to ridiculous levels of Tension. It also doesn't hurt that using it for ''armor'' makes their units ''stupidly'' tough.

* In ''Animation/WarOfTheWorldsGoliath,'' we have a steampunk futuristic past from reverse-engineered Martian war machines, including [[MileLongShip kilometer-and-a-half long]] {{zeppelins|FromAnotherWorld}}, HumongousMecha, and {{Energy Weapon}}s.

* ''Dinotopia'' features steampunk dinosaur mechs and trilobite-shaped (functionally) [[Film/BladeRunner spinners]] in the prequel ''First Flight'' and second book ''The World Beneath'', powered by [[PowerCrystal sunstones]], stolen by the mythological equivalent of Prometheus.
* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': The Nautilus is powered by electricity, then a new and exotic power source. Unfortunately, Verne overestimated what electric power was actually capable of, so the Nautilus as described in the book wouldn't function. Presumably, this is why it runs on nuclear power in [[Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea the Disney version]], since at the time the movie was made, nuclear power was the cool new power source.
* "Literature/GeistSeries": The Industrial Revolution seems to have arrived early in ''Geist'' and was accelerated by the discovery of [[{{Unobtainium}} azoth]], the mineral residue of the [[TheLifestream Symphonia Mundi]].
* ''Hermeticon'' by Vadim Panov is a steampunk space opera where all steam-powered engines are based on an alchemical reaction between mysterious Philosopher's Crystals and Royal Vinegar (an extremely powerful [[HollywoodAcid acid]] mixture). Internal combustion engines similar to real ones also exist but cannot (yet) surpass the wonderful alchemy-based technology. Moreover, there is astrelium, a strange and rare metal that allows [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppels]] to [[FasterThanLightTravel travel between planets]]. The source and principles behind the Philosopher's Crystals and astrelium are only known to alchemists from planet Hermeticon.

* In ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' (strongly inspired by the ''Dishonored'' series), the industrial revolution was kicked off by the discovery that the blood of the demonic leviathans roaming the Void Sea can be used to produce electric power. By the time the game takes place, its setting is roughly in the Victorian age, with most technology powered by electricity extracted from leviathan blood (although some older tech also uses steam power).
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', the steampunk mechanisms are fueled by a miracle fuel, ghost rock, which is a supernatural mineral made by the [[BigBadEnsemble Big Bads]] from damned souls.
* The ''[[TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}} Jadeclaw]]'' 1st edition adventure module "Loot the Burning House" featured a province of Zhongguo rediscovering steam power and examples of ancient steam engines powered by alchemically treated metal octagons instead of wood or coal.
* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the plane of Kaladesh focuses on an industrial revolution caused by the harvesting of aether (essentially the essence of the cosmos itself, made workable thanks to the multiverse-shaking event known as the Mending). WordOfGod states that it is the franchise's take on the steampunk genre, with rogue inventors, government oppression, and airships, albeit eschewing the traditional Victorian setting, clunkiness, and grime for a FantasyCounterpartCulture of India, technology that prides form as much as it does function, and a distinct touch of SolarPunk (thanks to aether being a zero-emission, ethically-harvestable energy source).

* ''VideoGame/AnotherSight'' ''almost'' has this. The phlebotinum is there, and there's certainly a lot of steampunk, but the people who use and study the Node are extremely worried that mishandling it could have dire circumstances; even Nikola Tesla is wary of using it for anything more than powering his machines (although he is studying it to make more sense of it). [[spoiler:One ending has this trope played completely straight after Thomas Edison gets his hands on the Node; we see a quick glimpse of a city of skyscrapers with massive gears and smokestacks.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' expansion ''Gods & Kings'' included the Empires of the Smoky Skies scenario, a steampunk campaign that featured new types of resources to create its fantastical technology, such as aetherium and luboric.

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* The Steamballs of ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}''. Not only are three of them able to keep a giant castle floating in the air and provide almost unlimited quantities of steam at high pressure, they remain at room temperature the entire time. This has something to do with a mineral dissolved in the water they're filled with. That's all they say about the matter.

* ''Literature/Dinotopia'' features steampunk dinosaur mechs and trilobite-shaped (functionally) [[Film/BladeRunner spinners]] in the prequel ''First Flight'' and second book ''The World Beneath'', powered by [[PowerCrystal sunstones]], stolen by the mythological equivalent of Prometheus.