Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson has told Gamasutra that the development team is hard at work on their next title in the SteamWorld franchise. Sigurgeirsson explained that it’s not the next SteamWorld Dig game, but instead it’s another game that’s set within the SteamWorld universe. The company says that it will announce the name of the new game shortly.

“I’m fortunate; I know what’s next for my team. Since December last year we’ve been working very hard on the next SteamWorld title. It’s not the next SteamWorld Dig game, it’s the next game that we’re putting out is in the SteamWorld universe. It’s the same type of characters that are the protagonists, they’re steam-driven robots, but the setting and the gameplay will be very different from SteamWorld Dig. The reason why we’re doing that instead of making SteamWorld Dig 2 is that we think that this game that we’re working on is…