Mining Survivors

Dev is clueless on balancing, nor does he care

I played the demo awhile ago, and while it started slow, by the end of the demo things were speeding up and I was looking forward to playing new planets and getting new upgrades etc. I wishlisted it and waited for a sale. That sale happened recently (35% off I think it was) so I bought the game. Thing is my demo progress didn't carry over, I had to start from scratch and play through the slow 2 hours again. I could have refunded it at that point, but I wanted to see the late game and while I was not super happy about it, I played through the early stuff again. Sadly, it turns out the first 2 hours are the longest part of the game, after you finish the first world, you progress extremely fast. I clocked in at 4.2 hours total to finish the game, prestige (not by choice) and play a bit of the rogue dungeon. The final planet was so easy that I finished it the first time, and could have done so if there was 2x as many things to mine. There just wasn't much game to play after the demo and I feel ripped off. I was over 2 hours (obviously since the first world takes that long (or basically the demo), so can't refund it. I don't know if anyone will see this before purchasing, but I would not recommend buying this game. If I could have refunded it, even at $4, I would have. I am usually ok with paying $1 an hour for a game and consider anything over that a bonus, but in this case, even though you can play it for 4 hours, I feel like the slow first 2 hours extends the game (by making you move like molassas) and more importantly gives you a false sense of length before buying it. I also think the demo progress not carrying over may be on purpose or people would finish it before 2 hours were up and refund it. Very dissapointed. It's not alot of money, but shrug, it doesn't have to be. I have made small games in the past (all for free, coded on muds as well (for free) etc. And I get how much work goes into it. I am happy to support small teams or individual coders, but I feel like I was misled and forced to replay something I would have had no desire to do if I knew how much content was left after it. The demo shows 1 world out of 4...but the last world isn't a world (just a 5 minute max world that you finish right away). The second and third world fly by so fast it's silly. This just left a horrid taste in my mouth and was not satisfying at all. I love mining games and generally by them all, this is probably the worst purchase of that genre I have made and the most dissapointing. I never write bad reviews, I made an exception in this case.