Steampunk for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Steampunk genre

Thief: The Dark Project Remastered - a game in the Steampunk genre

Action, Adventure, Stealth, First-person view, Exploration, Old school, Medieval era, Steampunk

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → зима 2026-2027

The game brings back the iconic stealth-action Thief: The Dark Project from 1998 in a refreshed form, preserving the atmosphere and features of the original. As...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 December 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Steampunk

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 10 December 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The events of the game take place in the city of Steam Bison, located in America, one year after Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. The city is highly...

The Room

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 October 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Room is an indie puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 February 2018

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

Circus Electrique

Tactics, Role-playing game, Steampunk, Turn-based, Side view, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 September 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Circus Electrique is a turn-based tactical role-playing game in the steampunk genre. Ordinary Londoners have suddenly turned into evil killers, and only the...

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Adventure role-playing game, which is a direct sequel to Sunless Sea. The setting is not murky water-filled spaces like in Sunless Sea, but the sunlit sky. The...

Airborne Kingdom

Business / Management, Strategy, Steampunk, Isometric, In real time, City Building, Exploration, Construction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 November 2021

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Airborne Kingdom is a real-time management strategy with an isometric camera in a steampunk setting. In the game you will go on a fantastic journey — fly...

SteamWorld Build

Business / Management, Isometric, Steampunk, Strategy, City Building, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 December 2023

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The player develops a dilapidated mining town inhabited by steam robots. Beneath the city is a mine rumored to contain rare resources and ancient technology. The...

Dex

Role-playing game, Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 July 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Dex is a 2D open-world cyberpunk RPG that focuses on exploration and non-linear...

SteamWorld Dig 2

Arcade, Platformer, Steampunk, Side view, Adventure, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 September 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

SteamWorld Dig 2 is a continuation of the side-view arcade platformer in steampunk style. The main character of the game this time will not be Rusty, but a certain...

SteamWorld Heist

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Combat robots, Tactics, Steampunk

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 December 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 86/100

SteamWorld Heist is a stylish and fun strategic shooter in the steampunk genre about pirates and robots. The main character is pirate Piper Faraday, who gathers a...

Forgotton Anne

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Steampunk, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 November 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Forgotton Anne is a side-scrolling adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will take you to a magical dimension where forgotten things are...

Close to the Sun

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2019

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Close to the Sun is an adventure horror game with a first-person view in a steampunk style. The game will take you to the beginning of the 20th century on a ship...

Tin Hearts

Arcade, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Platformer, Steampunk, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 April 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Albert Butterworth is a brilliant Victorian inventor who creates amazing tin soldiers and various bizarre mechanisms. In one moment, all his creations come to life...

80 days

Adventure, Indie, Steampunk, Strategy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

80 days is an interactive text adventure from indie developers Inkle Studios. Traveling around the world takes place in map mode, on which cities of most countries...

SteamDolls - Order of Chaos

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Steam: 90/100

SteamDolls — Order Of Chaos is a side-scrolling stealth action adventure game in the Metroidvania format, made in a steampunk style. The game takes place in a...

Black Skylands

Arcade, Top-down view, Simulation, Indie, Action, Steampunk, Open world, Sandbox, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 August 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 81/100

After the cataclysm, the Earth turned into thousands of floating islands. The brave girl Eve battles the falcons of Cain — bandits who raided her home, as...

Crazy Justice

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk

Frozen: Nintendo Switch → 2019

Players: 1/10

Crazy Justice is a team shooter with a third-person view in a steampunk style. The game supports simultaneous multiplayer for 16 people, in which you need to...

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 July 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch is an atmospheric action platformer with a side view in a dieselpunk setting. In the game you will try on the role of a rabbit who...

Invisible, Inc.

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Isometric

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 June 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Invisible, Inc. — a tactical strategy with turn-based battles in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell about a secret organization of special agents who...

Vaporum

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Puzzle, Steampunk, Dungeons

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 April 2019

Players: 6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Vaporum is a hardcore action RPG with a first-person view in a steampunk style, inspired by the classic games Eye of Beholder and Dangeon Master from 1983. A...

Ironcast

Role-playing game, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 August 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Ironcast is an engaging role-playing strategy game with elements of a match-three puzzle set in a Victorian steampunk environment. To protect Great Britain, the...

Steampunk Tower 2

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 December 2020

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 72/100

Steampunk Tower 2 is a unique side-view action strategy game set in an alternative steampunk universe. There is a protracted world war with an unprecedented enemy...

Vaporum: Lockdown

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Steampunk, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 March 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Vaporum: Lockdown — a hardcore role-playing action game with a first-person view in a steampunk style, which is a prequel to the original game Vaporum. The events...

Teslagrad 2

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer, Steampunk, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 April 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

The young Teslamancer Lumina found herself in a difficult situation after her airship crashed far to the north, on the territory of the unpredictable Wyrmheim. The...

SteamWorld Heist 2

Strategy, Turn-based, Side view, Tactics, Steampunk, Comedy, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 August 2024

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Turn-based tactics in steampunk style. Not everything is smooth in the blue sea, a crisis is brewing there — a water crisis! A precious resource has suddenly...

39 Days to Mars

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 May 2019

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

39 Days to Mars is a side-scrolling co-op steampunk puzzle adventure. The game will tell the story of Sir Albert Weeks and his pilot Clarence Baxter, who decided to...

Gestalt: Steam & Cinder

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania, Role-playing game

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The game takes place in the steampunk city of Canaan, where the brave Aletheia is trying to defeat an army of clockwork golems and destroy the terrible plans of a...

Another Sight

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Steampunk, Indie, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 June 2019

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Another Sight is a fantasy adventure inspired by Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, set in late 20th century London. The game will tell the story of a blind girl, Kit, and a...

Earth Atlantis

Arcade, Shooter, Indie, Steampunk, Action, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 October 2017

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Earth Atlantis is a side-scrolling arcade shooter in a steampunk style for mobile platforms. You will go to the depths of the ocean, where there are strange...

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise

Action, Roguelike, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Steampunk, Point & Click, , Exploration, Dungeons, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 June 2022

Steam: 94/100

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise is a side-scrolling action-adventure roguelike set in a fantasy setting. As Noah, you will travel to ancient ruins to uncover their...

Steel Empire

Shooter, Beat them all, Steampunk, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 January 2024

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Steel Empire is an old-school side-scrolling shooter in steampunk style. You have to repel the attack of the powerful Motorhead empire, which has enslaved almost...

The Watchmaker

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Steampunk, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2020

Steam: 51/100

The Watchmaker is an action-adventure game in a steampunk setting. The action takes place in a world of huge clock mechanisms, where time has gone crazy. You have...

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Best Games in the Steampunk genre for Nintendo Switch