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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only your wits and a handful of cards. Take on whatever threat comes your way by crafting your own deck choosing from over 100 unique punch-cards!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Just finished the campaign story, after forty-hours of gametime. SWQ kept me coming back pretty consistently, because I enjoyed the deck-building combat mechanics, similar to Slay the Spire, without the stress of randomness. This was a chill experience that passed the time…”
— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played“Another masterpiece from Image & Form Games. Somehow they manage to make entire new games and still make them as good or better than the previous. Pros - Amazing music - Crisp and clean graphics - Fast combat if you so prefer, this isn't really a slow snoozefest turn-based game…”
— a player, Steam review · 117 hrs played“SteamWorld Quest is an RPG that uses card deckbuilding mechanics during turn based combat. The SteamWorld franchise (including SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Heist) uses a steampunk setting where many characters are robots, and Quest combines this with a swords and sorcery style…”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Card Battler · Turn-Based · Card Game · Party-Based RPG · RPG · 2D · Deckbuilding · Turn-Based Combat · Steampunk · Cartoony · Colorful · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 44 |
| Official site | https://www.imageform.se/game/steamworld-quest/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2 GHz, SSE2 support Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.1-compatible, 512 MB video memory, framebuffer object support. E.g. Intel HD 4600 or better. Storage: 750 MB available space Additional Notes: You may need to update your graphics drivers for OpenGL 2.1 support.