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Have You Played… SteamWorld Dig 2?Left me in ore

Left me in ore

Image credit:Image & Form Games

Image credit:Image & Form Games

A small robot jet packs to a higher platform in SteamWorld Dig 2

SteamWorld Dig 2is a Metroidvania that sees you play as a little Steambot searching for their friend Rusty, who’s gone missing. As suspected, he’s buried somewhere underground, so it’s up to you to get digging and figure out where on earth (inearth, ha) he’s gone.

I’m not the biggest Metroidvania-liker, probably because I’m not very good at all the backtracking necessary to progress in these sorts of games, but SteamWorld Dig 2 is different. Objectives boil down to “dig down to this spot”, and I really appreciate the simplicity. I’m not going in circles walking through endless doorways, but just clinking my pickaxe against rocks towards a big X below me.

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