The growing influence of Steampunk can be seen in the genre’s increased use in entertainment media. One of the latest examples is Gaslight, a game for Android tablets and phones. I jumped into Gaslight thinking that it was a real time strategy (RTS) game. I envisioned maneuvering armies of steam tanks and building the economic bases needed to produce such units. But Gaslight is not an RTS. You do get to build a base that can produce military units, but those units are hidden away from the main map. I struggled for a little bit trying to understand just...









