People keep recommending this, so I thought I’d give it a go. The first bit of good news is that it’s got a very generous Lite version. So generous that I didn’t finish it after playing for half an hour or so. Unfortunately, at that point I died and it looked like I might have lost all my progress and would have to restart from scratch… which seemed awful at the time, but just writing this has made me want to go back and have another crack at it. Odd. I wasn’t planning to ever play it again.


Anyway, it reminds me of Miner Dig Deep, an Xbox 360 community game I played a while ago. You drill down into the ground to get rocks to sell, then return to the surface to sell them. With the money you make you can refuel, repair and upgrade your mining vehicle. Controls are a bit fussy, but not unplayably so.

The main problem I had was that on each trip down into the ground I was only getting enough rocks to repair and refuel and never seemed to have any money left for upgrades. I was starting to run out of rocks I could reach when I got careless and died. I’m worried that it’s possible to get into an unwinnable state. I’m not sure if I was missing something, if the full game has features to combat this that the Lite doesn’t or if it’s really possible to play for ages and then find you need to restart from the beginning.

I better go back and check sometime, really, rather than indulge in idle speculation that might make me look like a fool.