Orebound

Verdict: Avoid, even on sale. Orebound presents an appealing hook on paper: step into the boots of a dwarf arriving via airship on a royal mission to unearth ancient gemstones, build massive automated factories, and conquer the depths. Unfortunately, after spending over ten hours with this two-year early access title, the reality is a dead, tedious, and structurally broken experience that feels like a poorly slapped-together collection of generic asset store packs. The World and Exploration The world generation is completely lifeless, unnatural, and aggressively random. Instead of digging your way through the earth to build a factory, you are greeted by massive, immersion-breaking tunnel chasms scattered across a tiny, invisible-walled map consisting of just two bland biomes (forest and flat dirt plains) And I *think* there is also snow, but I haven't really been able to actually traverse that without running into an invisible wall. It doesn't really matter anyway since it's all just trees and dead landscape no matter what. Survival mechanics are treated as mindless afterthoughts: Pointless Hunger: An arbitrary hunger meter forces you to hunt local boars, though you only ne…

Overall a fun game. Took my time with it. Looking at the traps and defenses? Never used those en don't think I'll need them. No attack waves or any on the base and I also wouldn't know how to defend it with the outposts build at mining sites. It feels more like an automation game then a tower defense game if you ask me. Farming totally not needed for survival. Enough boars to eat so cooking also never got any further then roasted boar. The automated farms feel like a cheat. If your common with Satisfactory? Then you'll be missing some features thats makes your life easier with building. Minecarts want to visit every station on the track. Very annoying. Belts are 1 way only. Meaning i can't start the belt at the entrypoint of the machine back to the exit point of another. It has to be from exit to entry. Automation was tiresome. All the machines are massive and take alot of space. I only automated the starter items from the ores. Not the combining of items. Gold is easy earned that the mountains of it are more in the way then usefull. Only used the gold for unlocking tech but at the end I figured out I could also buy all the items at the shop and that way completed the game for…

Great fun, exactly as advertised.

I am absolutely loving this game!! Its a great little gem and I am looking forward to what is coming down the line!

Good game in EA, excited for future updates and 1.0+.

Somewhat janky still sure, but very fun, very charming, and very dwarvish in feel. Its a great game, and good pace on development. Cant wait to enjoy it in its finished, and fully realized state!