Star Mining Co. (2025)

Developer: Barney Whiteman
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Strategy
Rating: 4.2 of 5, 30 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 2.7 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A fast-paced, strategic mining operation where each run is a desperate, procedural descent into an asteroid's core with permanent consequences for failure.

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What players say

Players find the mining roguelike fun but unbalanced, with runs that swing from brutally hard to trivially easy depending on RNG. The game is short, lasting only a few hours, and many report crashes when scaling up drills or mining the core.

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