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Ship Miner

Action mining game with retro aesthetics and roguelike elements. Collect minerals from procedurally generated asteroids, improve your ship and survive The Anomaly, an unknown entity threatening The Galaxy. Can a simple miner stop The Anomaly and save everyone?

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Pixel Core Games
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Pixel Core Games
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About the Game

You are a miner traveling from asteroid to asteroid collecting valuable minerals and lost technology for the Mining Corp. Improve your spacecraft and survive attacks from an unknown menace that threatens the universe.

COLLECT MINERALS

Travel to different asteroids and mine them to collect different resources and lost technologies.

    

IMPROVE

Use your collected minerals to upgrade your ship stats or install special technologies: from triple mining rays to photon thrusters. Build space stations and drones to help you in your task.

                        


SURVIVE

The Galaxy is in extreme danger, and so are you. Survive unknown threats from beyond The Anomaly. Upgrade your equipment and use your skills to complete The Mission.

                 

You are the last hope.  

Gameplay Description:

Ship Miner is a an action miner game, you control a mining ship with your twin stick controller or with keyboard and have to mine asteroids with your mining ray. You collect minerals and upgrade your ship and select new destinations, and repeat. From time to time some enemies appear in the asteroid and you have some combat. If destroyed you either restart from last save or start again from 0. The rest is up for the player to discover, I don't want to spoil everything in the description.

Key Features:

  • Exploration:

    No instructions. No help. No hand holding.

  • Nostalgia + Retro Aesthetics:

    For players with nostalgia for 80's and 90's games.

  • Randomly Generated Asteroids:

    Each travel and each run should offer new experiences.

  • Local COOP:

    Play and explore with your friends and family, if that's what you want.

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