I didn't watch the trailer or read any of the game description. I saw DangerouslyFunny's YT video of this and thought that I could be smarter than a YouTuber. I am not smarter than a YouTuber. This game is hard! xD Edit: I read the game description. It didn't help.

better then borderlands 4

Fun game, price is way too high for the amount of content and the very simplistic game-play loop.

Thought I'd really enjoy it, but the gameplay loop was pretty boring (in my opinion) and I didn't like that you start from zero each map, maybe a persistent skill tree would have made it more fun but starting from nothing each time rubbed me the wrong way. Also, if you don't play with the quotas the game takes waaaaay longer on peaceful mode, so maybe world modifiers to make the game less intense would have been nice. 15 bucks is also quite expensive for what this is

It's fun gameplay loop but it is too frustrating for me, currently. The premise of the game is that you have an ever increasing amount of coal to supply to keep playing. The first day it's 40, and on Day 15 it's 40,000. If you fail to provide the amount you lose and restart entirely from scratch (there's no general passives over multiple runs). What makes it fun? There's RNG in how each day's map is generated with the ore veins and powerups you can get for that run. Some maybe crazy powerful weapons, some may be passive bonuses for the player, and others may be bonuses for workers you can employ. In addition, there's a strategic element of purchasing upgrades to help you mine faster, hold more items, fly, upgrade workers, etc. all at a cost of gold. You get gold based on what ores you mine, with coal = 1 gold and a diamond 4,000 gold for example. If you fill your quota early, you can prioritize mining higher value resources to bring back. But there's a risk as anything not brought back in time doesn't count in the final tally! In the first map, progression works by going down into heavier concentrations of ores. These are harder to mine and require more damaging utensils. But the difference between the dirt layer on top and the red/orange layer further down is ~5 coal per block versus ~500. So the goal is to get deeper and deeper and access more and more resources. What makes it frustrating? After the several rounds, I hit my skill / strategy cap and I can't unlock any more of the game. I get to Day 15 and lose, again and again. I've tried different utensils (differing pickaxes, unlocks, guns); different employee configurations (trying to optimize miners with collectors), but I always lose on Day 15. To unlock the next profession after the shaman you need to beat day 15 with the starting role. So I'm stuck. There is not any feedback that I have found for how to do better. It also sucks having really powerful utensils and abilities and then spending 10 minutes getting halfway as strong as you just were again - only to repeat this (for someone like me) ad infinitum with no way to progress. My suggestion to the dev(s) is to: 1. Implement a skill tree for the player to spend experience on to allow them to tailor their experience in a certain way. Want to use pickaxes and do classic mining? Here's a way to start with ladders and a better pick. Purchases on these items are discounted. Want to organize your company? Here's a skill that replaces a pick with a command function to order your miners and collectors around. In this way you still have the RNG, but the premise of each dig is still under the control of the player. Instead of going through 8 days to really start specializing, this would allow the player to begin with a specialty to try from the beginning and then pivot or respec their skills if they don't enjoy it. 2. I'd recommend another pass at the buy menu for items and their costs. Not to make the game "easy" but where a doofus like myself can get to day 16 after 12 hours, because at this rate I'll never play again. The outcome will be the same. 3. Ladder interactions and a magnet item / ability. Ores get stuck in corners or pass through blocks and I spend almost a minute or more each round trying to jump off the ladder to the collection box at the top. I wish there was an easier dismount similar to Terraria. When you are on the ladder you should be on it. Any movement up or down is the player. Getting off should require a jump. If you move left or right then instead of jumping you move as normal. Up or no move is a jump as usual.

Game play loop gets old quick, was fun well it lasted. Buy upgrades, run to bottom of hole, grind out as much ore as you can. $15 was too much, probably worth 5.

bought game. played game. mined ores. now I fly in fly out from Aussie mines.... We yearn for the mines

This game is fucking hideous. The music is atrocious. The controller support sucks. The gameplay is a 10/10.

the children yearn for the mines and so do the employees

The graphics can best be described as: existing The gameplay loop is simple and sadly not really all that difficult. There is very little meta progression (unlocking characters and biomes) And yet... Somehow the mindless task of mining coal all day is kinda addicting. And it's suuprisingly well optimized. You can hire literally endless workers to help you, and it only starts to affects the framerate once you get past several thousand. And it stays somewhat playable until you get into the upper reaches of billions of workers. It plays as if it was stresstested by Let'sGameItOut. (If you are on the fence because of the pricetag, try the free demo first. It's what roped me in)

felt no growth in any way, loop was not fun. This is more of a chore. found it almost impossible to clear past a day or 2 always get stuck with no way up

yes

way too expensive for a simple game of this size and limited gameplay

Its not worth the price, you can finish the game in 3h (true ending), the gameplay won't change much between runs, there is a lot of classes and maps, but the endgame is always the same, spam miners/collectors

It needs some kind of permenant upgrades, as once you fail to fufill your quest, it's so tedious to play again from scratch. I understand the pain in 1st runs, but it really needs some help in futher to help with the start of the game, as it start to be so not fun, i don't even want to start over and mine those 30 coals per day......

BAD GAME.

The game is very fun, however, for the last several weeks, the game crashes pretty regularly. Which makes you lose all progress from that day and forcing your to start over. It is very frustrating and essentially makes the game unplayable at the moment. Again, very fun, I hope they fix this soon.

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You get a good 10 hours of fun play with this game. Probably a fun 1-2 hours of recap every month or so to play on a whim. That matches the game's price. It could have a lot more elements and be a lot prettier, but the game has an undeniable charm and clearly acheived what it set out to do.

I would trade my firstborn son to make quota

15$ No save games, looks bad. Shouldn't be bought.

The children yearn for the mines

Nice little autism game

demo seemed nice, the game it self isn't challenging in anyway, rather easy the different play styles aren't too enganging it's the same with just different tools the price tag is also discouraging almost 15 bucks for this? double that and get grounded a real game :y