I don't know why, but there is nothing more satisfying to me than games about mining. It's just such a simple but fun concept. I love gathering a whole bunch of random resources that I can use to gather even more resources even faster whilst digging deeper than feasibly possible.
The magma firing rocks can be mined if you get the miners to prioritise the rock in the direction you want them to mine it from, then you prioritise the magma firing rock and cancel the other rock they were mining. You also get hitpoint regen in their upgrade tree, you have to scroll down when accessing the tree to see it. You also get a vision upgrade for how far your little people can see, so they can see two layers of rocks, seeing potential magma rocks, or creature spawners, or minerals early too. Also, the magma rocks destroy the rocks in front of their jet, so you will be aware of where they are anyway. Meta progress allows you to get your guards firing up at the flying creatures.
I actually downloaded this demo the other day. It's funny that, with all the pop-up tutorials the game gives you, it doesn't describe the block types. Unless there's something on the main menu that I didn't look at. But honestly it seems like there's a lot of potential. My next game I want to try stacking those block-destroying buildings.
I think a benefit of adding some of those 'base features' behind an upgrade would be to make the game less overwhelming at first and to kind of keep your first run as a tutorial. HOWEVER it doesn't seem like you can even unlock those for your second run because you need to level up or something, which I think is a mistake, because otherwise you would have had enough currency to unlock all three of them. Very interesting game though!
I think this is different enough from its obvious spiritual predecessors to be a valid game. The tower defense/mining combo genre is a neat framework for new indie games
@@gatunhame The 1.0 release removed a LOT of the game's content and radically changed the storyline to be weak and short. Since then it's only received a single hotfix update and the devs have been mostly mum on the reasons why they gutted their game. You can see the rest of the playerbase complaining in the steam discussions
The 1.0 story was vastly more consistent. There were alot of issues and chwnged fhwt shouldn't have occured but the story change was needed. @@Sanquilon
Neat idea and look, but having basic game mechanics behind not just metacurrency but also a.. Level up requirement? That's pretty lame. But some of that's bound to change before full release, maybe.
Nice to see your take on this demo. No medbay... no way to heal workers... seems like a needed mechanic in the game. Even if it was expensive, it seems like it would be worth it.
I don't know why, but there is nothing more satisfying to me than games about mining. It's just such a simple but fun concept. I love gathering a whole bunch of random resources that I can use to gather even more resources even faster whilst digging deeper than feasibly possible.
The magma firing rocks can be mined if you get the miners to prioritise the rock in the direction you want them to mine it from, then you prioritise the magma firing rock and cancel the other rock they were mining.
You also get hitpoint regen in their upgrade tree, you have to scroll down when accessing the tree to see it.
You also get a vision upgrade for how far your little people can see, so they can see two layers of rocks, seeing potential magma rocks, or creature spawners, or minerals early too. Also, the magma rocks destroy the rocks in front of their jet, so you will be aware of where they are anyway.
Meta progress allows you to get your guards firing up at the flying creatures.
Interesting seeing all of the “Domekeeper” inspired games coming out now
What others have come out recently? Loved Dome Keeper, will have to check them out
loving the longer vids!!!!
I actually downloaded this demo the other day. It's funny that, with all the pop-up tutorials the game gives you, it doesn't describe the block types.
Unless there's something on the main menu that I didn't look at. But honestly it seems like there's a lot of potential. My next game I want to try stacking those block-destroying buildings.
Seems quite fun with a decent amount of versatility on what to do
I think a benefit of adding some of those 'base features' behind an upgrade would be to make the game less overwhelming at first and to kind of keep your first run as a tutorial. HOWEVER it doesn't seem like you can even unlock those for your second run because you need to level up or something, which I think is a mistake, because otherwise you would have had enough currency to unlock all three of them.
Very interesting game though!
I think this is different enough from its obvious spiritual predecessors to be a valid game. The tower defense/mining combo genre is a neat framework for new indie games
Kinda reminds me of the dome game you played in the past.
If the final shape wasn't dropping today I would totally be buying this
It's a free demo
My first thought is that this is a mix of Oxygen Not included and They are Billions. And I am deeply interested.
great vid
are you planing to go back to Trash of the titans?
If the miners don't do anything during an attack, and the attacks all come from above... Why do they need to stop mining?!
Giant underground worm would eat them
looks need, but the orange-filter is so overwhelming , kinda gives me headache .
This looks interesting but unfortunately I cannot trust Hungry Couch Games as a developer after how they handled Black Skylands
what happened to Black Skylands?
@@gatunhame The 1.0 release removed a LOT of the game's content and radically changed the storyline to be weak and short. Since then it's only received a single hotfix update and the devs have been mostly mum on the reasons why they gutted their game. You can see the rest of the playerbase complaining in the steam discussions
What happened?
The 1.0 story was vastly more consistent. There were alot of issues and chwnged fhwt shouldn't have occured but the story change was needed. @@Sanquilon
@@death299 what'd they change about the story?
I liked this one.
Neat idea and look, but having basic game mechanics behind not just metacurrency but also a.. Level up requirement? That's pretty lame. But some of that's bound to change before full release, maybe.
Nice to see your take on this demo. No medbay... no way to heal workers... seems like a needed mechanic in the game. Even if it was expensive, it seems like it would be worth it.
it will open in meta progression
Doesn't sound that this will be a series. Le sigh. I'm watching another dude play this game just because it's this game.
Why would it? It is just a demo! Maybe when it is out?
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The filter when you pause is sooo i annoying they really should remove it