Mine & Slash

Mine & Slash is a part mining game (obviously) and yes you guessed it slashing as well (the combat slashing of course) set in a colourful town next to a set of dark and dangerous dungeons to explore. The game looks, feels and play like a mobile / tablet game for the most part, but as its been ported to PC, a gamepad is highly recommended, you can also play with keyboard and mouse if you prefer. You start the game accepting a quest to rescue someone, enter a dungeon, mine as much as you can carry, fight some enemies then return to town to sell your resources, the combat & mining is very simple and returning to the town is frequent due to your bags becoming full, your character often tells you about upgraded bags but during the review stream I didn't see the option to buy or upgrade these, this would be essential as the frequent portal to town, then return to the mines does become repetitive and a bit frustrating after a short while. Despite the repetitive nature of the game, and the combat being fairly simple, it was also fun and never too difficult or that challenging in the mines, even the first boss fight was easy, as with most boss fights you earn lots of loot and money. It`…

Setting aside the whole vibe that this is a Steam game made by people who are used to developing pay-to-win stuff for mobile... Edit: upon further investigation, there [b]is actually[/b] a web version of this game on Y8, although I haven't gotten past the loading screen on that version. This game has been out for a year and a half and is chock-full of bugs; the last level is so broken it's unplayable. I've tried every combination of three levers, and each one either traps me or is useless...

pros: fun for the first few hour(s) cons: quickly gets repetetive (well...kinda the whole point of the game). full of bugs, some more annoying than others (well, most of them more actually), like the health bar disappearing cmonstantly. crashes 8/10 times on exit. broken achievements (REALLY annoying). find all relics (yes, i found them all) , sell XXX worth ores (yes, i mined and sold everything that can be mined in all levels in all modes) , unlock all skills (yes, i unlocked them all...) for example. the voice and the same 5-6 lines the main character has was fun for a minute but then quickly got boring and annoying. no penalty for death, afaik no replay value after you beat hard mode (not that there were much anyway once you beat the normal mode but absolutely zero after hard more. the game is playable and fun for awhile but feels more like an unfinnished mobile port than a finnished pc game.

It's a fun time sink, the arena is annoying though.

Addictive and fun. Great indie game, occasional UI bugs that correct if you reload but other than that feels pretty polished.

Just a crappy mobile game