SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a turn-based role-play where you use cards to attack and defend yourself. You play as a team of sentient steam-powered robots travelling across a steampunk fantasy world.

Play involves exploring the side-scrolling world areas to find loot and treasure. You encounter enemies and battle them using the different cards in your deck. This combines with role-play upgrading of characters to help you progress and take on harder enemies. It's a turn-based challenge which moves the strategy from prioritisation and shooting to combining attack and defence abilities effectively.