If you can dig it, you’ll like this side-scroller Minecraft-like digging game. It’s the future, and robots have taken over Earth. What’s left of the human race can be found deep underground in the ‘Old World’.
You play as Rusty, a robot heading to a dusty small town to meet his Uncle who’s the town miner and the only source of income for this town. However, he hasn’t been seen in months and When you arrive, the ground drops from under you.
When you recover, you realize you’re trapped. But then comes someone that’s willing to help you out. All you need to do is find a pickaxe.
You find your uncle… he’s unfortunately passed away, leaving you in charge of his mining legacy! So go, dig through the earth, sell goods, upgrade your pickaxe. Get powerups. … And discover a hidden civilization.
Gameplay, it’s a mixture of mining ore and selling what you got and upgrading, and problem-solving. There’s no day/night cycle. There are monsters of increasing difficulty the deeper you go.
There’s also an achievement that you can get for completing the game from the start, either exactly at or less than 2 hours and 30 minutes. Aka, a speedrun.
Speaking of which, is there freeplay after the main questline? Well… Yes and No. As in.. No, you can’t go back to mining after completing the game, but you can reload a save to before doing so and continue to mine. So, it’s kind of like the way Fallout New Vegas does its ending.
This also has a hilarious easter egg. In one area of the game, you see several skeletons next to what appears to be a video game store, waiting for what looks like the release of Half-Life 3 and showing Gordon Freeman’s crowbar, a picture of what I can assume to be Gaben(CEO of Valve) and there’s a thing on the sign that says “Soon…” LMAO! Wow. Amazing. Kudos to the devs for this!
There’s even another funny one. An achievement titled “Half-Life 8 confirmed!”
And so, that’s it for this game. I like it, and I like the Half-Life themed things.