Mining Survivors

I can live with the basic flash graphics, but the game is very short compared to the price range. I expected much more upgrades, levels and challenges for that price. The game has potential to be much more and I hope the devs will add more features, levels and upgrades.

Played 5 hours in a row... Yes it does have good dopamine for autistic brains can confirm. I really like the mining and fighting core loop. I just wish there was more long term upgrades. Such as a the prestige mechanic to have more of a reason to do it. Such as adding a boss or some harder wave at the end. Just want some more reasons to play after completing the game as I really enjoyed it.

It's... fine. There's perhaps 4 or 5 hours worth of gameplay in the main mode. It felt a little more repetitive than other 'survivors' clones and lacks the depth of some, but enjoyable enough to tab in and out of when doing other things. The pacing felt a bit off for me, you have to repeat the first level or two a few too many times to make any progress and the gameplay itself could have been a little faster at that point. Then by the time you feel like you're advancing at a decent pace, it ends. Hopefully they add more stuff but it's not early access or anything, so who knows. There is a prestige system to reset and start over but it doesn't unlock anything new and there's not much point to it, you just have to play the tedious bit of the game again. I tried three runs at the roguelike mode and died around the same point from bad RNG each time. By the nature of roguelikes it's hard to say if that's bad balance or just bad luck, I didn't feel particularly compelled to go back and find out though. It's currently $5/£4.30 and probably a bit much for what it is. Buy it on sale. Or don't - you can make your own decisions in life and I believe in you.