Games Asylum: “Even within the pages of charmingly garish ‘90s video game mags, HOT-B’s Steel Empire stood out. Shoot’em ups set in space were par for the course for the Mega Drive, yet here was something daring to be different, featuring a bi-plane and a zeppelin battling steam-powered contraptions using bullets and lightning-based bombs. Not even the few military-based shooters on the MD could compete with its unique steampunk setting, although there were some similarities – including bosses taking the form of tanks, trains, and submarines.”
