Golden Retriever
All That Glitters is Gold!
In this mining platformer, traverse your underground mine shafts to retrieve gold! Team up or compete against your friends or go solo into the mines and extract as much gold as you can. Setup your operation and reinvest your earnings into better gear and equipment. This line of work not only separates the gold from the dirt, but the pups from the dogs. With danger lurking in the ancient grounds, hungry Dinos awaken, searching for prey and loot. The wise miner doesn’t fear the Dino but sees it’s flesh and bones as a potential fuel source for their operations. Gold mining is a treasure hunt, so open your miner’s map, test some dirt, and find that stash of gold!
Mine to Save the Town from Fat Cat
Each unique map has new environmental hazards like forest fires, earthquakes, lava and new machines like helicopters and excavators! Every speck of gold you collect gets you closer to prevent Fat Cat from building his Cat-sino next door and paving over the town!
Beware of Dinos
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Dinos cause cave-ins when they get grumpy and stomp their feet
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Dinos eat all of the gold out of your bags of dirt.
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Dinos steal gold coins when they bite you!
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Canary in a Crater
Review is based on Version 1.03
It is a fun little game. Controls are solid and upgrades are useful. Achievements work and are simple enough to get.
You could probably finish the game in a few hours, definitely within a day if you’re trying for that. This is a GREAT game if you’re busy and would like to play a game for 20 minutes before work and feel like you accomplished something.
Game play is a simple loop. You dig down collecting upgrade orbs and treasures. Sell treasure. Pay for upgrades and resources to get down farther where higher priced treasure is. This can be a bit ‘grindy’ but that is what this style of game is meant to be. If you are not into that style of game this might not be for you.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
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Canary in a Crater is a clone of Miner Dig Deep, but it’s graphics are far better and in my view super cute! ^_^ Movement is smooth, but seems slower than Miner Dig Deep. There are upgrades and things in this game that Miner Dig Deep does not have, but I did not play enough to see them myself so I can not comment upon if those aspects make the game overall stronger then Miner Dig Deep.
The developer seems genuinely into improving the game and making it better then it is and is open to critical feedback.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
SantaCraft
I’m a big fan of Milkbag Games. They make fun, relaxing games with a lot of thought and creativity in them just for the player’s enjoyment! Santacraft was a lot of fun to play. I was hooked and couldn’t stop. My desire to completely clear the map will probably send me back into the game very soon! Music, characters, and pop culture references are all on point!
EDIT for 2021 update: Love all the new stuff added, including a way to keep building! Thank you so much, Owen and Matt for making SantaCraft even more fun!
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
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A perfectly witty and wholesome Christmas game just in time for the holidays! Definitely worth the $5!
On top of being fun for me, I’ve found that it is a great way to teach my 6 year old to use a mouse as he finds controllers too difficult and has given up on other games like Minecraft. This game is right up his alley with the cute characters as well as incorporating the crafting and building that he loves to do!
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Cloud Miners
Cloud Miners is a 2D couch co-op space mining and exploration game!
You and your shipmates have been attacked and your ship destroyed! A Cloud Corp ship was nearby and able to save the crew at the last minute, but now you are indebted to Cloud Corp. In order to buy a new ship, and your freedom back, you must toil away mining asteroids and planets of their valuable resources, running on suspicious missions for Cloud Corp and entertaining spectators in the C.L.A.A.S.H. Coliseum battle arena. Your lives now belong to Cloud Corp, and it’s up to you to take your power back!
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Playable with up to 4 people
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Choose from 4 different characters with different abilities and tools
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Use the crew’s ship and venture out on foot to complete missions
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A mix of procedurally generated and crafted levels
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Solve puzzles, fight battles, and use mined resources to complete missions
Faraway Islands
Good 2D survival/crafting game.Controls well and has good mechanics.Fun to play.Main thing missing is content.Maybe some kind of back story as well as current story and things that hamper surviving would make it better. Things like animals or some mobs that you have to fight/avoid or just watch out for would add a lot. This could lead to more reason to have variety of weapons and a leveling up of weapons.This really is a fun game in early access which I totallly forgot to mention….untill now.Price is not very much at all now……with proper good additions current price will be a steal. Developers seem nice and are wanting feeedback to help advance their game…..which is usely a good sign for a early access game in my experience. So overall I am not a professional game reviewer but I do know if I like playing a game or not and a few things I personaly would like to see in a game…….so I like playing Faraway Islands and recommend it to all types of gamers………I see it getting better with a little love.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
I Love this game and I want to see it get updated again I’m very happy with the development of the game the only problem I had was that I had put time into 2 different islands and that progress broke and I had to start from scratch. Otherwise a great game and I do recommend
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Idle Earth
Nice Idle game. Progress is fast enough and premium currency isn’t needed to enjoy the game.
I like that most of the clicking you can do to speed up progress isn’t just button mashing.
– Real player with 307.3 hrs in game
Finally got all the achievements. Fun little game to pass the time. Pick it up when it’s on sale.
– Real player with 205.0 hrs in game
Planet Centauri
This is a very entertaining game worth its full early access price. I am sure you already know what it reminds you of but it has its own charm. Some key advantages it has over -those- games you are thinking about is that the torch can be placed on hotbar to help you see in the dark areas without having it selected. This means you no longer need to place a thousand torches just to see where you are digging underground at the beginning like in Terraria. You get to capture pets in this game too and they can level up and learn passives. A few of these monsters can be used as mounts. You can put these pets into special pet houses where they will earn xp overtime. Decorating inside of their houses with the proper furniture will boost the rate. Monsters have tiers so finding the higher tier ones will get higher tier passives usually or more HP/attack bonuses. Put a male and female together in house and they will produce an egg granted they are same kind of monster. They will produce egg easier when they love their home more I think (represented by heart meter)
– Real player with 121.4 hrs in game
-The Good-
-Wonderful color rich world, with beautiful backgrounds.
-The chance to enslave chickens to power your machinery.
-Building, and tiles sets with sloping so anything you build becomes a creative work of art.
-an alien race you must rescue, to grow your village.
-A system that you gain HP and SP just by eating a new food for the first time
-Tamable monsters
-Mini challenges like ELIMINATION!
-A large variety of monsters and baddies to fight.
-The Alright-
– Real player with 76.7 hrs in game
Cavebound
cool game
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
This game is actually really well made. It’s challenging, fun, and polished. It’s a small game but with a lot of effort and love put in to it
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Miner Meltdown
I throughly enjoyed playing this game with my friends. It’s a qwearky game that gives you and your friends tons of laughs. This is a great game to play while waiting for all your friends to play a AAA game. Tje creator of the game is always adding new skins to the miners which is really neat and it’s also around holiday events. All of the weapons and items are quite fun to play with, I really enjoyed using the shotgun for up close and personal and the rocket launcher to clear out those pesky miners from a distance. The main map is quite huge which allows you to roam a bit and build up some precious gold to get those awesome weapons and items without the other team right on top of you. Oh, speaking of the map, the background images are very cool to see and the music gives you that 8-bit feel. As a fun for a laugh or to get you blood pumping, I recomend everyone to get this game and play with your friends especially for the low low price.
– Real player with 26.6 hrs in game
Ever since the alpha testing party back in June 2016 it’s been thrilling seeing the progress in development on this game. Back then this game was very early into it’s development and was a long way from what you see today in the game. One thing that hasn’t changed is the competitive feel to the game. Something about swinging around from a rope with various weapons at your disposal brings thrill do a 2d platformer and Miner Meltdown is no exception. With the pricepoint of this game you simply can’t go wrong.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
BLASTRONAUT
Mine resources! Upgrade your gear! Make Profit!
It is a dangerous but lucrative job. Explore this vast procedurally generated world with your jetpack. Extract the minerals with an explosive gel. Expand your mining platform. But most importantly: stay alive.
The game offers you:
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Mining and selling resources for profit
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Exploring an infinite procedurally generated world
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Upgrading your gear
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A lot of explosions
The depths of the planet hide many unique biomes and treasures, but also dangers. Every biome has its own way to harm you and having the right set of gear will make your life much easier.
On the ground, you can build your base of operation. Different machines allow you to process and trade the resources that you have brought from your last mining operation.
