Steam Powered Giraffe: Meet Toast
The robots are hiring again. Steam Powered Giraffe, San Diego's resident troupe of singing Victorian automatons, has commissioned a new unit: Toast, built 1896, rebuilt 2026, circus-style, plays flute, carries…
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September 2026
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Steampunk Rendezvous: Winthrop, Washington
A Wild West town. Steampunks. A gear swap and a potluck barbecue. This is not a convention, it is not a festival, it is a rendezvous, which is the correct…
Key City Steampunk: Worlds of Tomorrow
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Home of one of the bloodiest battles in American history, a hotel restaurant literally called the 1863, and, apparently, the East Coast's best excuse to put on goggles…
Boston’s Steampunk Gathering: Charlestown, September 18-20
This weekend, Charlestown, Massachusetts transforms into the Doctor's kind of town: gears on everything, corsets as far as the eye can see, and enough top hats to block out the…
Dieselpunk 1921
A free 125-page TTRPG rulebook just dropped on itch.io, and the Doctor is extremely here for it. Dieselpunk 1921 plants you in an alternate history where the shadow of the…
Steam Punk Festival: Aurora, Indiana
A brand-new steampunk festival just dropped on the map, ladies and gentlemen: Aurora, Indiana threw its first-ever Steam Punk Festival this past weekend, September 12-13, at Gabbard Riverfront Park on…
Cyberpunk TCG: Welcome to Night City
The beta events are happening right now, chooms. WeirdCo and CD PROJEKT RED launched the Official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game onto Kickstarter back in March and the internet promptly lost…
Veil of Ashes
Someone looked at Iron Harvest and Company of Heroes and said, "Yes, but what if we turned it up?" The result is Veil of Ashes, an incoming dieselpunk mecha RTS…
Colfax Railroad Days
Tomorrow, September 12th, downtown Colfax, California transforms into a living SteamPunk postcard, and it's completely free. Colfax Railroad Days 2026 celebrates the town's pivotal role as the primary supply terminus…
Clockwork Revolution
inXile Entertainment (the same mad geniuses behind Wasteland and Torment) have been building Clockwork Revolution long enough that I started to wonder if Lady Ironwood had used the Chronometer to…