Miasma Caves

Miasma Caves is a colorful underground exploration adventure that puts discovery ahead of fighting. Developed and published by Windy Games, it casts players as Lesath, a young draconid determined to investigate the mysterious Miasma threatening her home of Radiant Ridge. Instead of filling its caves with aggressive monsters that must be defeated, the game makes navigation, environmental hazards, limited resources, treasure hunting, and the decision of when to retreat the main sources of tension. This approach gives it a more relaxed personality than a traditional dungeon crawler without completely removing the possibility of failure. Exploration is the central attraction. The caves use procedural generation and voxel-based environments, so expeditions are designed to provide a degree of unpredictability rather than sending players through exactly the same layout every time. Digging allows Lesath to move beyond obvious passages and search for hidden spaces, valuables, and alternative routes. This makes curiosity useful because suspicious walls and unusual formations can potentially conceal something worthwhile. The procedural nature of the environments cannot always provide the car…

This "game" is pretty much garbage. It's barebones, it's ugly as hell (I think PS2-era graphics but... not great). The UI looks like it was yoinked from some low-effort Xbox 360 game, it actually makes me both nostalgic and physically sick. Xbox360 games had this weird "milk" filter that I can't get over - this game has the same. The movement is so freaking snippy/janky, the animations are LOL, and the overworld looks like baby's first map project. Why is this on Steam? This should be on Itch.io or some other "aspiring dev" platform. Also, I found out this had a $ price. This. You serious? It's not even an H-game. Make in an H-game and you can charge $.

Miasma is the right word! "Miasma Caves" is a laughably bad 3D "voxel" based cave digging adventure/treasure hunt game with no real content (it's all procgen) and even less motivation to play it. What do you do in the game? Well, you're in a cave, and you run around and avoid slimes and search for treasures. I think it's hard to overstate just how BAD the game mechanics and polish in this game are... because it's voxel based you can "dig", but if you think you're getting even close to something like Red Factions awesome destructable levels, or Deep Rock Galactics frenetic co-op gameplay, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Digging is just a matter of the very poor quality character model waving her arms at the rocks and they disappear (and later a pickaxe). You can't make it up... but the funniest part is yet to come. Here's another case where Itch failed. They have like, ONE job... to act as containment to prevent poorly made amateur shovelware from leaking out onto platforms where gamers might see them and lose hope in the gaming industry. But here we are. The participation trophies and hi-5's from the group hug weren't enough and some of the amateur drivel they're…

its good a little confusing tho

Игра "Miasma Caves" – это уютное и захватывающее приключение в неизведанные пещеры. Игроку предстоит вжиться в роль юной шахтерши Маргарет, исследующей опасный, но прекрасный мир подземных глубин. Что понравилось: * Очаровательный визуальный стиль и атмосфера, передающая дух старой шахтерской колонии. * Интересная механика исследования пещер, где важно учитывать вес рюкзака, уровень миазмы и ресурсные запасы. Каждый поход – это небольшая тактическая задача. * Приятная система крафта и улучшения инструментов, позволяющая постепенно углубляться в более сложные области. * Милые и запоминающиеся персонажи, каждый со своей историей и ролью в развитии города. * Неторопливый геймплей, позволяющий насладиться исследованием и атмосферой игры. Недостатки: * Некоторым может показаться, что игра немного затянута и однообразна. * Боевая система с монстрами довольно простая. В целом, "Miasma Caves" – отличная игра для тех, кто ищет расслабляющее приключение с элементами выживания и исследования. Она предлагает погрузиться в интересный мир и почувствовать себя частью шахтерской общины. Рекомендую!

Tl;dr - get the soundtrack, skip the game because it is tedious and unfairly punishing any attempts at casual gameplay. Treat it as a "YouTube game" to avoid the tedium and to skip to the segments actually want to see (read: not much of that - most of it is repetitive digging). If the game had a casual godmode / explorer mode, I might recommend it. Death is extremely punishing and comes easily in this game, forcing anti-fun, paranoid play styles. The soundtrack alone is a good enough reason to play this one. ...Too bad the gameplay design is horrendous. Get this - every time you die, the game deletes your dungeon. This means you can NEVER RECOVER YOUR STUFF. Imagine losing most of your active items in a grindy game - NOT FUN. The game seems to be full of designs that kill you fast. You are on a constant timer because the invisible gas (separate from the visible gas that - you guessed it - kills you fast). You would have to save-scum in this game because the auto-save thing saves every five seconds or so, so if you fall and die (level design has lots of deep pits), you cannot just exit the game and re-do the run because you will spawn five seconds before you died. The idea of…