
The First Mine is a turn based building, strategy and puzzle game. You need to run a productive gold mine by placing, grouping and upgrading various resource tiles without being distracted by different tasks and random events.
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The First Mine is a turn based building, strategy and puzzle game. You need to run a productive gold mine with your population by placing, grouping and upgrading various resource tiles without being distracted by different tasks and random events.
Place, group and upgrade various tiles to collect resources
Run a productive mine with your population to mine gold
Don't let tasks and game events distract you

The goal of The First Mine is to mine as much gold as possible to achieve a high score at the end. There are different game sizes and difficulty levels to choose from, as well as several characters with unique traits for varied gameplay.
Each round you have to cleverly place and group a new random resource tile and upgrade your existing tiles as needed. Placing a new tile end the current round, mine gold in your mine and collect resources like wood, stone, wheat and fish.

To mine gold, you need people in your villages. To keep them, you need to provide enough wheat and fish each round. More people and a higher level increases the amount of gold produced per round. You need wood and stone to upgrade the level.
In order to increase your yield per round, you can observe different requirements and tasks when placing resource tiles. In addition, there are random game events like trade, raids or natural disasters that can influence the game in a positive or negative way.

What The First Mine offers:
Mix of strategy, building and puzzle mechanics
Different tasks and simple resource management
Random game events like trade, raids or natural disasters
Achievements, highscores and leaderboards
What The First Mine does not offer:
4X strategy
Citizen simulation
Advanced resource management
Advanced trading system
Combat and violence
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This game is criminally underrated. I am always on the hunt for games that can satisfy my hunger for a Dorfromantik-like gameplay loop, and this one does it just wonderful. Is it perfect? No. For example the performance on my (give or take 5 years old gaming) laptop isn't great, and I can't figure out why, because the graphics doesn't seem too demanding. But I am really intrigued, and I was immediately after playing the demo, and I still am. This is complex enough for just me wanting to try more rounds and improving more. But also simple enough for being able to squeeze in a quick round while listening to podcasts. Please consider giving this a try if you like games like Dorfromantik or Islanders.
Addictive game
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Languages: English, German
Hours played at review time, across 25 reviews with recorded playtime.
The First Mine surprend par sa simplicité redoutable et le défi qu’il impose, rappelant par bien des aspects un excellent jeu de société de placement de tuiles. Il a un bon goût de « Reviens-y » avec le départ asymétrique proposé par chacun des personnages. Le jeu est plus subtil qu'il en a l'air. Pour aller loin, il ne suffit pas de développer les tuiles dans tous les sens dès qu'on le peut. Il faut savoir où investir et quand s'arrêter de dépenser ses précieuses ressources. J'apprécie l'ambiance graphique du jeu, certes épurée, mais mignonne, ce qui colle bien avec le côté chill du jeu. Deux petits bémols : Le chrono qui met un peu la pression quand on veut jouer chill. (Chrono qui a peut être disparu depuis.) Et le fait que le jeu ne soit pas en français. (Mais ça, ce n'est pas gravissime, le vocabulaire reste abordable.) Rien de bien vilain, et puis bon, vu le prix du jeu, c'est cadeau ! :-) Pour un premier jeu de ce "one man studio", c'est prometteur.
A cozy little game
Quick number maximizing game, little to no stress. If you like watching your yields go up in Civilization, give this a go
A fun game reminiscent of tile-placement board games, with the various synergies and upgrades!
Cozy und schön sweet für zwischendurch.
Tile placement game with a western theme. It reminds me of playing board games like harmonies. Your goal is to make complete ecosystems of trees, plains, forest, and settlements while resources endlessly build and fall. There might have been some things in the background happening with the resources but I didn't really notice what was happening. Completed the game on normal and felt that there was no need to try hard. Not sure if I missed any content but the game felt a little barren in terms of mechanics. You really just place tiles and sometimes a random event will happen that has you go "oh well, anyway" and then you keep placing more tiles. I recommend me this game if you enjoy placing tiles but like in the desert.
A nice little game to play when you want something short and to the point. Definitely has a lot of replay value, and is easy to get the hang of. Haven't experienced any bugs, and it's a nice game to chill to between long games
Really fun puzzle game that I won in a giveaway, very quick to pick up and play but harder to master. There is a tutorial but it doesn't cover everything (such as the configuration needed for the three pieces together or the reshuffle option at the bottom of the screen) so I played a few of the short games to get used to the mechanics before tackling a longer game. Seems to work fine on the steam deck with the default controls, although the text is very small.
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