SYSTEM ONLINE AETHER PRESSURE · 8.4 ATM
EST. 1887 · HORTENSE STUDIOS
A Clockwork Adventure · Now in Open Beta

Steam Quest

Pilot a battered airship across a fractured sky-empire of brass cities and forgotten machines. Forge alliances. Build contraptions.

Release Window Q3 · 2026
Players 1 · 4 Co-op
Platforms PC · Console
Engine Aetherforge 2
◆ 6 Continents ◆ 14 Endings ◆ 240+ Parts ◆ Mod Tools Included ◆ Steam Workshop
Chapter 01 — The Setting

A world held by rivets & rumor

Centuries after The Great Settling, the floating continents are bound by skybridges, telegraph wires, and uneasy treaties.

The Aetherlands

You begin as a courier — bonded to a salvage barge, owing money to people who keep ledgers in iron. By the third chapter you are a fugitive. By the seventh, perhaps, something more.

Every region has its own clockwork — its own laws, its own gods, its own pressure gauge that you can break, repair, or tune to your purpose.

Hand-built clockwork worlds

Six floating continents, each with biomes, factions, and contraptions designed by hand — not procedurally.

Branching narrative

Choices echo across regions. The mayor you bribe today writes the law you break tomorrow.

Dynamic weather

Storms, smog tides, and aurora that affect navigation, combat, and crew morale.

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Brassreach
The Spires
Smog Tide
Iron Quarter
Aurora Reach
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Chapter 02 — The Loop

Three things you'll do a lot

Steam Quest is a sandbox tied to a story. You are never told to be efficient — only to be interesting.
— I —

Tinker

Salvage parts. Bolt together absurd contraptions. Your workshop is your second protagonist — the one with the better arms.

Parts240+
Builds
— II —

Negotiate

Every faction has secrets. Trade favors, leak letters, or punch first — the world remembers, and so do the ledgers.

Factions09
Endings14
— III —

Sail

Pilot your airship through canyons, customs gates, and storms. Crew loyalty is earned. Mutiny is a feature.

Routes32
Crew1·12
Chapter 03 — The Footage

Take a look under the hood

Reveal trailer, four screenshots, zero filters. Captured in-engine on a leaky weeknight.
Chapter 04 — The Cast

Everyone wants something

Three of nine factions. Each has motives, songs, debts, and at least one person who thinks you're worth killing.
Mira Vex
— Protagonist —
Sky-courier · Captain

Mira Vex

Raised on a salvage barge. Owes too many people money. Carries a wrench named Hortense and grudges named everyone else.

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The Iron Magistrate
— Antagonist —
Faction Lead · Iron Order

The Iron Magistrate

Half man, half ledger. Believes order is a kind of mercy. Wears the city like a coat. Has not blinked since 1879.

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The Cog Choir
— Underground —
Underground · Heretic Engineers

The Cog Choir

Engineers, heretics, opera singers. They build things that shouldn't work, and they work. They sing while they solder.

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Ready · Set · Steam

Set the boilers roaring.

Step aboard the airship Hortense. Pick a side. Break the sky. Steam Quest is best played loud, late, and with a friend who owes you money.

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