I've played all of these guys games now, and perhaps unsurprisingly, their first game is the worst one.
Which is good, it shows that they've learned as they developed more.
First off, the digging, it's extremely slow, Even when you max out your drill, even the soil at the top is pretty slow. What I often do on these games is dig out every single bit of dirt I can and bask in the results. I will not do that with this one, oh my god. When you get further down, if you haven't upgraded your mech enough. You'll know. It'll let you dig, there's no way to abort digging, if you're really far down because you used bombs to get there, then started mining because you found an ore you want, you can be waiting for over a minute to dig through the thing...
That's annoying. Very annoying.
Once fully upgraded, it still doesn't feel fast, it just feels sluggish and boring.
The humour in this game is annoying. I've spilled my milk and I dropped a drumstick. There, you've read every bit of humour in this game, it gets repeated a few times. Your character also tells you what music they're listening to... multiple times... Shut up and let me dig, it's why I'm here, digging takes long enough.
The quest log doesn't log quests, it repeats the dialogue. So instead of getting the information like, you need 14 diamonds. You get the whole dialogue all over again.... even the annoying jokes. Shut up, give me the info I want.
Speaking of 14 diamonds. You need them all at once.
There's one quest where the NPC wants Jewellery, and says that he needs 8 at once to bulk send it. This is annoying as Jewellery is quite uncommon. But also.... why can't he keep it to the side? Why can't the game just remember? I reference it a lot, my profile picture is from it... World of Warcraft has been tracking quests since 2004. C'mon game, do better.
You eventually drill all the way down to the bottom.... And then you want to get all the achievements, because of course you do. This is going to take an average of 8-10 hours.
But if the mining was faster and the dialogue was less time wasting... You could probably do this in 2.
This game suffers from an issue a lot of games do where the length of the game feels artificially made. It's not earning those extra hours from you, it's wasting them. You're not having a fun time throughout all the game. This game has way too much boring in it.
If you want to try this developers games, skip this one. It's so much worse than the others.
It does do a couple things well, there's passive income and it's pretty decent, you align pipes up with mines underground and you make a little money over time.
There's different mechs you can unlock and upgrade their storage and drill speed. There's a couple of issues, in that with every mech you buy, it starts off as basic useless mech, you have to then buy it's upgrades, this takes a very long time as well. So you buy the best mech, 1 million, then you need to save up another million to finish upgrading the bloody thing. This is irritating as all hell.
There's also this annoying mechanic that's in all of their games... You dig up dirt. You then have to carry the dirt to the surface to dump it. Why can't I just dump it while I'm down there? There's plenty of holes I've made. There's even natural caverns down there. No, you have to go all the way back to the top and then all the way back down, which again, time wasting. Does not feel fun.
My final complaint. There's a barrier about 700 meters down. You have to find a gap in it. I dug all the way to one side, and you can see a gap there. But that's outside the range of where you can dig.... So you just see mud going around the outside of the barrier... This is absurdly stupid. Time to slowly dig the other direction.
This game is a waste of time, arguably all games are a waste of time, but this one is time not well spent. Skip it, play their next game instead.
Thanks for reading, or skipping to the end.
Whether or not you agree with me, have a lovely day. <3
