I was worried about a lack of resolution options, but it seems like it just defaults to your desktop size. The game has made the transition from the 3DS rather well. Just another way for the town to squeeze a bit of cash out of his labours. SteamWorld Dig is a pretty friendly game, so if Rusty is incapacitated he’ll just leave his bag of goodies behind at the place where he fell and pay a minor repair fee.
In any case, death is not a huge hindrance. It’s possible to find light and water dropped by defeated enemies, as well as standing pools that can be slurped up into the storage tank, so you’re often weighing the risk of plunging onwards into the depths against a trek back to the top (or to the nearest teleporter.) Once this runs dry, tools like the drill become useless. Our robot buddy also requires water to run (or cool, or something) certain parts of his machinery. After all, that next block could send you tumbling into a cavern of critters.Īnother jolly capitalist, here to bleed poor Rusty dry. Running out of light doesn’t mean pitch darkness, but it does mean taking much greater risks and mining somewhat blind. He has a limited supply of light, which will gradually diminish and cleverly cut off how far it’s possible to see. It’s the old ‘Metroidvania’ concept in action (albeit in a lighter, more relaxed form.) Find a new tool, then return to previous haunts to access places you couldn’t reach earlier.Īside from the need to sell your uncovered treasures, there are a pair of resources that will periodically force Rusty to return to the surface. Throughout Rusty’s travels he’ll eventually pick up things like a drill or dynamite that not only make his progress smoother, but also open up new avenues of exploration in earlier caves. There are those that unlock at the surface shops as you earn more money, which tend to be refinements of your existing equipment (a hardier pick axe or more health, say.) Then there are additions to your toolset that can only be gained by entering certain caves found within each of the three distinct strata of earth. Upgrades in SteamWorld Dig come in two forms. The underworld is populated by psychotic, moonshine-loving humanoids. That means heading ever deeper into the earth in an effort to find out what happened to Joe and to fulfill your ever-present desire to exchange precious minerals for cash and then swap said cash for fancy robo upgrades. Since the rest of the delightful robot folk in town depend solely on what comes out of the hole in the ground to keep their economy functioning, they’re quite keen for Rusty to continue the family business.
Joe is written off during the tutorial (that’s the most minor of miner spoilers,) but he’s left his digging operation in Rusty’s capable metallic hands. SteamWorld Dig’s set-up for all this excavation is a robot named Rusty, who’s come to a robo Frontier town in search of his Uncle Joe. That can be bad news for you if you’re still under them, and just as terrible for any subterranean enemies who get in its path. Harder rocks will take more swipes of a pickaxe (or some special equipment) to mine through, and heavier boulders will tumble through the earth if you remove the support beneath them. They tend to share some of the same ideas though, and SteamWorld Dig is happy to make use of some of the classics.
I’ve got vague memories of several games of this type from the ZX Spectrum era, but I doubt any of them were the first. The digging-out-2D-blocks-for-minerals genre is a trickier one to trace than I was expecting.
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