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>if you move it out of the industrial revolution it's not steampunk anymore. putting fantasy and alt history in to that milieu is kinda the whole point.
Is it now? I'm not saying it's wrong or shouldn't exist, but I feel a certain way when people call "Arcane" or "Legend of Kora" steampunk. Steam punk has burrowed from sci-fi of Victorian era like the works of Jules Verne and H.G Wells and should be consistant with the time periods science.
>if it's just sci-fi but some guy wears big goggles, that's sci-fi.
Speculating on how technology could develop in an alternate 19th century IS sci-fi, not all sci-fi has to revolve around spaceships and laser guns.