AraCore Astromining Ventures

The game is focused on story, and expect you to be fluent on consuming it while also play the game. it is up to you how you manage that first or later tries. The game is rather short and wide instead, except you to explore the various scenarios that can only be attained by ingame choices and actions. The story is very similar to Paper's please when it comes to choices. Gameplay: is actually really relaxing and fun. No gravity, just sometimes anomalies that makes unexpected speed changes. It requires precision, patient, and continous forethought and keep in mind the map and where stuff flies, so not to knock things away you plan to interact with. Lot of secrets, leading to story element unlocks. Controls: Dev fixed all control releated issues. Perfectly controlable, while it could benifit from some more QoL options, the dev stated he wanted the controls to be hard and thats fine. One of those you have to lose, but miracles can happen i suppose. Reason for not recommending: There are soft locks in the game, and some story element inconsistencies. Dev claimed to play his own game, but their presence proves he did not. So if he ignores it, i cant suggest it either. If he ever fix it all, im not the one who will test it again. If you happens to go on brances in the story that dont have these you can still get your moneys worth. Good luck with that. My first impression below for reference: After beating it (once) I do not recommend the game. It is a VERY story oriented game, it literally won't let you play until the last mission, as it keeps throwing story and new development at you practically after every move. The "free mode" is not actually free. It is timed. You have 15 min and then its done. Which you DON'T want in this game. The fly around pick up stuff and stash them is just a backdrop and not even remotelly the focus of the game. The money distribution is also purelly stroy oriented, you never get the option to personally customise anything on the drone. The only option you get is pick between 2 drones in very limited moments. Also ALL gatherable materials are strategically placed on the map to serve an action to perform. You don't use your skills, you deploy them in the place they were design to be used and thats it. Yes game has many secrets, they all tied to the VERY VERY branching story. it is designed to be played multiple times if you interested in the very extremes of branches it can go. Which would be lovelly if the gameplay wouldn't be absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ due to a SINGLE problem. The rotation of the ship is tied to mouse movement and CANNOT be remaped to anything else. This causes you to fight the ships thrusters that follows the mouse EXTREAMLY STRONG practically singlehandedly axing any fun you might convince yourself to get out of the "physics" gameplay. No gravity cuz that would absolutelly ruin the predesigned placed collectibles, (however there are gravity wells that can change your course rapidly tied to background stuff) Only recommend to very story focused players with a controller, it is near unplayable with mouse especially if you aim for very strickt story elements. Music is broken, borderless fullscreen doesnt work, HDR is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you try to alt tab, mouse is actually missing on endscreen at each mission where you HAVE TO click on the confirm. I think the dev is good in some areas but practically clueless in other parts of game deving. If you are curious just buy it, check if you can remap turning from mouse, if not just refund, cuz that means dev is also ignorant.

this game is evil, my first mission I start mining and then he ends it before I finished, 2nd mision the contanior gets full before I've finished and I can't order over more, 3rd mission some crazy person in a huge miner destroyes my equitment and progress, I've failed the mission, gee I wonder why. free mode I mine and the time ruines out before I finish. this game was not made for mining but for lossing progress

Good Ol' Steam brought this up as a suggestion, and I can't thank them enough for finding a game that hits the spot for Retrorama of classic games that never were. It had no reviews and was kind of hard to re-find, as the name is kind of obscure... along the lines of other classics like "Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising", which have sadly, but esoterically astoundingly, flown under the radar into timeless classics. I think this has the potential for that hall of fame, as it's feel, sounds, retro-future style, and especially "Real Physics" model, and great soundtrack which hopefully will be released as a standalone soundtrack, soon, are spot on. There is a demo, and some bugs being reported in the demo, and some in the main game, but like true retro-gaming, is half the fun in navigating the work around, to get to the nitty-gritty at the heart of the game. To the developer, I would just say that the name is great, but the name is very obscure for people searching for it, so try to game the algorithm by putting in and seperating, "Mining", "Astro"... and that's about it. I'm sure there are others trying to find this, and can't re-find it on their searches. I only re-found it by searching for "El Crabo Grande". I hope this gives you some inspiration at least, because you're onto a great journey. Happy Travels :)