{"id":11014,"date":"2016-10-17T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:44:47","slug":"steamworld-heist-launches-for-wii-u-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/10\/steamworld-heist-launches-for-wii-u-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamWorld Heist launches for Wii U on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SteamWorld Heist<\/em> launches on Nintendo eShop on Wii U this week, with the game seeing a release on Thursday, October 20th, 2016. The release of the game will come with a two week special introductory price of $14.99 USD, before to changing to $19.99 USD afterwards. The game was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in December.<\/p>\n<p><em>SteamWorld Heist<\/em> is a game about space adventures and strategic shoot-outs. Play as Captain Piper and recruit a team of rag-tag robots to explore and scavenge the remains of a destroyed world. Board enemy spaceships and command your crew in a unique variety of turn-based combat, where the outcome is determined purely by your own skills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As an alternative to the special introductory price, players that already own <em>SteamWorld Dig<\/em> or <em>SteamWorld Heist<\/em> on Wii U or Nintendo 3DS get the game even cheaper with a loyalty discount. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime you can check out our review of the 3DS version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/review\/review-steamworld-heist\/\">SteamWorld Heist<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/review\/review-steamworld-dig\/\">SteamWorld Dig<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uyl8hX24ck4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteamWorld Heist launches on Nintendo eShop on Wii U this week, with the game seeing a release on Thursday, October 20th, 2016. The release of the game will come with a two week special introductory price of $14.99 USD, before to changing to $19.99 USD afterwards. The game was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75],"tags":[1403,717,1395,1040],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-wii-u","tag-eshop","tag-image-form","tag-nintendo-wii-u","tag-steamworld-heist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/steamworld_heist.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2RE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11043,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/10\/october-20th-nintendo-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":11014,"position":0},"title":"October 20th Nintendo Download","date":"October 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SteamWorld Heist \u2013 From the makers of\u00a0 SteamWorld Dig,\u00a0SteamWorld Heist\u00a0is a space adventure with turn-based tactical shootouts in which you aim in real time and perform awesome bullet-bouncing trick shots. 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