Hold The Mine

Lovely game! Can get a bit repetitive, but worth the price on sale :)

Really good, but even after 7.4hrs, I still wish there were more.

Funny the 1st and 2nd run, and then it gets repetitive super fast.. And it's really annoying to dig into the dark and find that you lost many precious pickaxes because of that !

A small puzzle/strategy game with good music and art, and a very quick gameplay loop that is easy to get drawn into. This is not a deep game, there's not a lot of content either, but it is fun. Random whining because I can't help myself: I wish this game had leaned more into the puzzle bits than going for a roguelite loop. Meta progression in the form of straight upgrades doesn't really work with the idea of puzzle elements, since it makes the game get easier as you play instead of trickier or more complicated. The difficulty options seem to exist mainly for that reason (as in, either I'm bad at the game or the higher difficulties are impossible without upgrades), so why are those two features separate, and why even implement them like that when they're effectively just a content gate anyway and could have been introduced, like the item unlocks are, gradually, as a way to ramp up complexity?

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Grindy and not in a good way. Decent game if you have no other games to play.