Best Steampunk RPG ?

>>54915373
There really aren't many. The thing is, steampunk isn't really very popular. Nerds generally get infatuated with it for a time, and casuals find it an easy aesthetic to adopt because you can just throw some brass gears on the band of a tophat and say you're such a geek xD, but it's really not a strong genre with a lot of memorable media backing it up.

That's if you consider it really a genre at all, rather than just an aesthetic. Can you really point to ten iconic steampunk works and find a unifying set of themes to them? A single unifying theme? Class consciousness, anti-imperialist sentiments, deconstructing the social mores of the Victorian era, those were aspects of "The Difference Engine", but how about "Morlock Night" or the Myst games? It's really absurdly hard to definitively say something is really steampunk--which for purposes of this discussion, potentially knocks settings like Rippers or Deadlands out of the running and further limits the field.

So even though steampunk is well known enough to get mentioned on The Simpsons, it's actually a very small, unpopular idiom. That means that very few writers are willing or able to dedicate the work of making a new system to a steampunk RPG; most examples will be implementations of cross-genre systems, GURPS Steampunk, EABA's Verne, BRP's Clockwork and Chivalry, Etherscope, Dragonmech, and the original edition of Iron Kingdoms for D20. So you're definitely drawing from a limited pool with what you're asking.

What the fuck is up with the aversion to generic games?

Especially for a "style over substance" genre like steampunk.

I think Blades in the Dark is sorta steampunkish?

>>54915373
I've been reading Victoriana 3rd and 2nd edition books. It's not pure steampunk as it has magic along with the tech.

>>54915373
Iron Kingdoms mostly fits

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I really like Castle Falkenstein.
There is no "punk" element, though and it's more on the fantasy side

There's Tephra, but ehhhhhhh...