[quote=@Cynder]
It sounds familiar. Is this an older gen game?
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Yeah. Not -too- old, but it definitely shows its age in parts. If you've played Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 on the PC or the first two Fallout games, they're a decent idea of what it's like. The combat is far more clunky than in any of those, however.

Additionally, there's also Rise of Legends, which is a fairly decent RTS that features one pretty interesting steampunk/clockpunk faction called the Vinci. The other factions are also pretty great, with one that is heavily inspired by Arabian Nights and the other is pretty much Ancient Astronauts Aztecs/Mesoamericans. They're not steampunk, however.

Windforge is yet another in a long string of Terraria knock-offs (Which is of itself a Minecraft knock-off, which is of itself an Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress rip-off, and so on), but features steampunk airship building shenanigans. I had a great deal of fun with it, but unfortunately it's a little limited content-wise. 

It's a little harder to recommend than the rest, but there's also Steambot Chronicles, a rather overlooked game for the PS2. It's Japanese and the steampunk aesthetic kinda comes and goes, but it's a pretty unique game. It plays kinda like Armored Core, but with far rougher (but surmountable) controls and far less depth. However, it compensates for this by having a semi-open world, a somewhat branching storyline (you can even join the baddies), oodles of side material, and actual dialogue choices (In a Japanese RPG of all things!) Aside from the aforementioned problems with controls, it has a fair amount of loading screens (I wasn't personally troubled, but many reviewers were), a storyline that's kinda crummy in places, a rather uninteresting cast of characters, and a soundtrack that I honestly think is a bit balls. I dug it enough to play it through, despite these failings.