The Magnanimous and Beneficent Doctor has been watching inXile Entertainment’s Clockwork Revolution with the patient intensity of a man who has literally survived the end of the world via alchemical formulae. Set in Avalon, a steam-powered metropolis where Lady Ironwood rules by rewriting the past to protect her grip on the future, this first-person RPG hands you the Chronometer: a device that lets you reach back into history, pull a thread, and watch everything downstream change. The Doctor approves of this mechanic on a deeply personal level.

At the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, inXile finally confirmed a 2027 release window on Xbox Series X/S, PC, Steam, cloud, and Game Pass day one. Is that “2027” vague enough to mean December 31st? Yes. Am I going to wishlist it anyway and haunt the Steam page like a brass-goggled poltergeist? Also yes. Brian Fargo says the game already has 750,000 words of dialogue written and will run at least 20 hours on the main story alone. The man does not do things small. This is the same studio that gave us Wasteland 3, and they are putting that chaos energy into a time-bending, class-warfare-soaked, gear-and-soot Victorian city where your choices don’t just matter, they haunt you retroactively. That is either the greatest RPG design philosophy I’ve ever heard, or the Doctor is about to lose three weeks of his life to a save-file spiral. Possibly both.

Nothing can beat old age and betrayal, Lady Ironwood. But the Doctor is coming for your timeline anyway. Wishlist it on Steam. Via: Xbox Wire

inXile Entertainment just dropped a new Clockwork Revolution trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, and the Doctor approves. We’re talking a first-person steampunk RPG set in Avalon, a Victorian metropolis ruled by a tyrant named Lady Ironwood who has been quietly rewriting history via time-travel device to keep her boot on everyone’s neck. You play Morgan Vanette, a street-gang scrapper from the wrong side of the tracks, who gets hold of a Chronometer and starts kicking the legs out from under her carefully curated timeline. BioShock Infinite called, it wants its DNA back, and inXile said: fine, we’ll take it.

The new footage shows off character creation, weapon blueprinting (you carry ONE gun the whole game and build it into a monster), steampunk gadgets as deployables, and the class-war subtext is about as subtle as a wrench to the faceplate. The Formula was applied to “first-person RPG” and the result is grand airships, clockwork automatons, and a city that changes shape depending on which moments you’ve gone back and corrupted. Time travel plus consequences plus gears equals a delivery mechanism for EXACTLY the kind of retrofuturist power fantasy this blog exists to document. It’s currently slated for 2027 on PC and Xbox Series, so yes, patience will be required. Nothing can beat old age and betrayal.

Via: Sortiraparis | Wishlist on Steam

There’s a new game on Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA) called Aqua, a SteamPunk naval-action shooter.  It’s not bad at all, except I would have done it with sky-pirates.

Aqua is a stylish steampunk naval-action shooter for Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game is driven by an entertaining story-campaign with beautiful hand-drawn comics and features a unique, distinctive neo-Victorian art-style. Steer your ship into the middle of a raging naval war, where masses of enemies and allies engage in real-time operations over large, multi-screen maps. Equip your ship, choose your tactics and form your own special squadron to support you in battle, issuing offensive and defensive orders to overcome huge fleets of enemy ships, submarines, airplanes and defensive installations.

Aqua is a good deal at 800 Microsoft Credits, or $9.99.  While it’s not as intense a game as Toy Soldiers, nor as mind-bending as Portal, it’s easy and fun.  The storyline and plot are straightforward, and the voice acting makes me feel like the game is aimed towards pre-teens, but I don’t care.  It’s nice to have a milder kind of game to play.  I give it 3 out of 5 Omegas.  The good news is that like any XBLA game, you can download the trial version and try it for free.

Visit the game’s official website: http://aqua-the-game.com