Just Dig

3 hours in.. NOT ONE SECOND OF THIS GAME IS AN IDLER. Game doesn't even progress if the window is focused. <__< Can't describe is as a clicker either. It's just you, holding left click on the screen. FOR HOURS. Promising game otherwise. But only if you like games that don't tell you what stuff is for, or how to progress, or any kind of explanation really.Not even controls. Also what kind of game doesn't even account for "Esc" to close the damn windows. Also it would be intuitive to have 1/2/3/4/5/6 set as shortcuts for the screens but NOoOOOooOoo.

Unfortunately missed the notif. about AI crap being worked into the game - but even if it hadn't, this would suck. After 1.5 hours of really mostly staring at the drill while holding down the mouse button, all I have to show for "progress"is: - the most frustratingly tiny multipliers ever (think 3% crit-chance increase - and crit doesn't even do much) - a still painfully slow pace at mining anything but stone (9 seconds for 1 iron...) - zero proper idea what half of the mechanics are (you can make filaments. What for? No clue. You can activate auto-drilling with energy points. How do you get those? No clue. Wouldn't matter anyway because...) - AUTO-DRILLING DOESN'T WORK IF THE GAME IS MINIMIZED -> check the forums. Can't make some dev's ideas up, I swear. I play lots, and I mean LOTS of those kinds of games. I don't mind a bit of waiting, grinding, etc. - it's usually the point. But this is one of those typical "What do you mean, I should actually plan out player progress mathematically?"-titles that figured if you throw some AI-generated pixel art into an engine, you can ask money from people. I mean... they didn't even bother to add a few textboxes explaining their own item…

I hate to give this game a bad review because it did look good from the store page; however, looks can be deceiving. You're thrown into the game without a clue of what to do. Took me a second to figure out I had to hold my left mouse button to mine the blocks. Progression is atrociously slow even with Modules equip. Each drill head only gives you a Crit multiplier. Why not make a new drill head give mining speed, extra ore on mining and even more extra ore on Crit? Right now you're lucky to Crit for extra ore with a new drill head. [b]TL;DR[/b] SLOW at a snails pace forcing you to hold your mouse button down for hours, Idling is a feature you have to unlock down the road (don't know how far), buggy, and other features of the game are passives that you feed ore/other overtime. The biggest downfall for me is having to work for Auto Mining. This should be the first thing that's unlocked. I have to sit here, hold my mouse button down for a long time to unlock Auto Mining through Dark Matter. Game is marked as an idler but the idle part starts down the road. There's some bugs to cheese the game too. Toggling AutoCraft On and off while it is currently crafting won't take any Ore cost …

1st, I don't care that they made this game with AI. 2nd, this isn't a terrible game, it just isn't nearly complete. Extremely flat and it shows that the developer doesn't have the best of programming abilities as of yet, or they relied too much on the AI. Things like polling events for when a mouse button is released are way too delayed, a pretty typical "new to programming" mistake. Still, there is a decent framework and with some work (and help from someone with a bit more experience, or just more effort), this could be really good. 2/5 - If it is on sale and you want to take a chance, go for it. Otherwise, wait for some patches.

It's a fine game for what it is and how cheap it is, but in its current state I wouldn't recommend this game. There is no guidance on what to do or what each game mechanic does, you have to kind of learn through gameplay what each thing does, but you only get to "Learn" that if you are willing to ignore how bland the game can be. There are better games in the same vein. I would suggest adding: "Help" feature. Easier auto-mine unlock

Looks and feels like a cheap, poorly balanced idler. Totally makes sense as its an AI slop.