Steampunk games.

[Last Valiance]

Are there any? I'm racking my brain here, but I can't think of any that I truly consider to be Steampunk. Cyberpunk and Biopunk are absolutely everywhere largely because they inherently make for good gameplay.

The only ones I can think of are Bioshock and Fallout, but they have an art-deco thing going (well, Bioshock does, but I'm not sure what the weird 50's retro-futurist style in fallout is called, so we'll go with art-deco), instead of the pseudo-victorian-industrialisation era thing going on, which is pretty much what defines Steampunk.

 

[Axolotl]

Arcanum is supposed to be steampunk. Not played it myself.

 

[Highlandheadbanger]

Theres Damnation, a steampunk, alternative American history shooter. But I understand it wasn't very good.

 

[CoverYourHead]

Final Fantasy VI and IX have heavy steam punk influences along with magic. However, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Thief 2: The Metal Age had a steampunk setting.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

NeoSteam, which is an MMO, is most certainly a SteamPunk game

 

[plastic_window]

Edge of Twilight was supposed to be released last year, but it's been delayed indefinetly, as far as I'm aware. A shame, really, the trailer [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/someone-special-edge-of/51344] looks really promising.

 

[MetalheadParkey]

Well in Timesplitters Future Perfect there were a few steampunk levels and characters.

though since that game is about time travel, theres pretty much everything in there.

 

[Gabanuka]

I know plenty of book, but I don't think there are many games that use it as a setting. Aside from Bioshock.

 

[Otterpoet]

Several, actually... they even have a wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Steampunk_video_games

Now, the Victorian genre of steampunk... that's more rare.

A steampunk fanatic myself, I'm currently enjoying Resonance of Fate... which (if you get passed the silly JRPGness) is a very solid game.

 

[Zing]

Ratchet and Clank.

 

[Otterpoet]

Theres Damnation, a steampunk, alternative American history shooter. But I understand it wasn't very good.

Awful, actually (avergae review score: 4.2 out of 10)... I don't think they actually finished most of it before publication. Which is too bad, because I was really looking forward to it.

 

[Keava]

Thats really untapped setting when it comes to games. Arcanum, Rise of Nation: Rise of Legends and, despite the shiver going down my spine every time i hear about jRPGs, FF VI would be the clsoest to what i see as Steampunk.

Plenty of settings tried ot borrow from the ideas of Steampunk, to mention WoW from the most popular ones, however it was always just a minor appearance rather than main theme. Generally it seems developers avoid both steam and cyber -punk settings focusing rather on either high fantasy or high sci-fi worlds instead.

 

[Wayneguard]

Arcanum is largely steampunk. The Thief games are also heavily steampunk themed. But you are right, there aren't many steampunk games, much less good ones.

 

[The Shade]

Can't go wrong with the MYST series. At least the first two or three are very Steampunky. That theme started to fade a bit in the later games, though.

 

[shogunblade]

I definitely fell in love with Penny Arcade's On The Rainslick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One the other day. Haven't never played any real steampunk games, that one, is what I consider to be EPIC. Epic in humor and to a point, everything else.

 

[Maeshone]

Well... Aqua is pretty steampunk. Or atleast it's set in a steampunk world. It's availible from Xbox Live Arcade, but I don't know if you can find it elsewhere...