Super Mining Mechs Steam Charts & Stats

it's not fun

neat game to zone out and dig some ore

This was pretty fun. Unlimited digging, bombs, explosions and a huge pile of dirt. The upgrades kept it interesting and finding and hooking up the power source was my favourite job. I have absolutely no idea what the main story was about. But we probably saved the world?

If you liked the previous game, you will like this. If you did not like the previous game, you will not like this. While the game is good, generally it is more of the same. I personally really like this series of games, this kind of game. It reminds me a lot of my good memories with Motherlode. However, in this game there is no fuel tank, and no health bar. You can mine for as long as you want, and take massive falls down into your mine shaft without worry. There are also no earthquake mechanics ruining your progression. This makes it a very chill and laid back game that I could play and enjoy at my own pace without worry. I would just put on some music or a podcast or whatever and just relax. Some people may not like this, I love it. While the voice acting is appreciated, it is not necessary for this kind of game. I can see that the developer wanted to improve his games and take them a step further, but he really shouldn't have. Not because voice acting in games is bad, but because the voice acting in this game was bad. To be fair, the main characters (the mole, main mission lady, main character guy, and old man) were voiced pretty well. Everyone else was a mixed bag. Either they were bad, underutilised, or had some really weird and strange voice warping. Like, I think some people voice some of the same characters, but they just pitched up and down the voices? It sounds really bad and was always a big distraction. I can't tell for sure, because when you beat the main story there are no credits, and there are no credits on the main menu. If I am missing them somewhere, my apologies. Speaking of the story, there is a decent one now, with an interesting little bit of consequences/bonuses at the end. Earth is running out of resources so they send you to a star system with three planets in it. An Earth-like one, a volcanic one, and an ice one. I once again found the mechanics on these worlds (ice storm that freezes you, lava that overheats you) to be more annoying to deal with then interesting to deal with in any meaningful way. Yes, they added to the story, but overall the story was pretty weak. Both sides are cartoonishly stupid, which I guess vibes with the rest of the jokes and dialogue in the game, but I suppose I wasn't expecting it to be that bad? Just mine straight down from your pod, connect the power plants on the sides to the main shaft, and run a wire down your main corridor. Every 100 blocks throw down a heater or a lava pipe, connect mines you find in open ravines along the way, dig to the bottom as fast as you can and all done. Personally I liked the last game better because you had to actually dig and mine for your resources while the mines gave you a passive income. In this game, setting up mines allows you to select the ore that you want it to automatically mine for you; so you can easily just tell it to mine what you need to complete missions and different tiers for more/upgraded gear. In the end it was a cakewalk that took away from my joy of mining in the game. I suppose you can challenge yourself to go without the mines, but if the mechanics are added in, why not use them? An added mechanic in this game was passive upgrades and prestige levels. These were very appreciated and I enjoyed them, very nice. Not much more to say on this one. Customising your mech in this game did feel a little bit better and more expansive, but not by much. In the previous game you would pick different mechs that had different levels of stats (generally the more expensive they were, the better on the whole they were) and upgrade them with money. In this game you choose from several different modules to increase these stats. You have to mine specific resources to unlock them, then pay money to buy and install them. Not a huge change from the system in the previous game. Mainly just extra steps. What the other game had with the mechs over this one, was cohesiveness. Yes, some of them looked silly, but they were designed as a whole to look like something. A bug, a scorpion, etc. In this game you start with a heap of junk and spare parts that looks like a pile of literal garbage, and by the end you have a huge super powered mech that looks futuristic and fantastic. Oh, wait sorry no, at the end all of the best parts also look like a random assortment of parts you would find in a hoarders house. A shark mouth for a drill, a magnet to lift you up and down, and boxes and bags on the back to hold ore and dirt? Why? There was a laser drill and tank treads just a couple tiers earlier! And in this one your character sticks his head out the whole time. Normally this would be nice to show off your barely visible pixel art character you made and the hat you gave them; but the guy should be dead with all the lava he drank. I guess the approach to the mechs is also the weird and silly vibe the game is going for? I dunno, I just did not get it. Suffice to say, this game does not take itself seriously despite, seeming to want to be a more advanced, upgraded, and improved game that wants to be taken seriously? Again, I don't quite understand. In the end, the calm act of mining through the levels, upgrading my mech (such that it was), and expanding my reach and all my mines through the solar system was enough, for me personally. Again, a calm chill game to play to wind down and relax while I hunted for achievements was what I was looking for. I beat the story of the game and got all of the achievements about 35 hours in, very much taking my time. You can do it all quite a LOT faster if you want to. I got a little bit more out of it, but not much. The rest of the time on there is just AFK having to go and run and do something else (did help me wait for my mines to pump out the goods I needed to upgrade my mech though). The game is cheap, and I got it even cheaper on sale. If you are looking for a cheap, calm and relaxing game that is easy to get 100% achievements on and that will net you about 20-30 hours of game play, this is it. I would recommend it for what it is, despite the flaws. I am looking forward to what the developer will do next.

Super Mining Mechs is an expansion of the original Mining Mechs with a bigger story, new mechanics, and more materials. Unfortunately, this bigger scope doesn't change the game's main loop, but simply lengthens it. This is fundamentally the first game, but stretched out, and with voice acting of its terrible, cliched storyline. Normally I'd go into the various aspects of the game in a review -- story, graphics, audio, controls, etc. In this case, however, while none of them are problematic, none of them are worth commenting on. This is a game that starts simple, stays simple, and ends simple. It never fulfills what promise it might have had, substituting repetition for development. Even if you liked the first game, this one will be a disappointment.