Mining & Tunneling Simulator

Absolutrely terrible, save your money and play monopoly. The game is unplayable in anything but the lowest of graphiocs settings. The graphics are like 1980's quality and the game is so badly written that it cant run at more than 7FPS in certain parts of the "map" because the background City graphics lock up the GPU/CPU. It is ridiculous, I have a Radeon R9 290X (OC), Asus ROG Maximus VI Formula mobo, i7 4770 (Haswell) CPU, 16GB RAM, Win 7 Home Premium 64 all running off an OCZ Vertex III 120BG SSD/Samsung EVO 840 Pro 245GB SSD ...and it cannot run this game!!!! Sorry guys, I really wanted to like this game, but it is unplayable. I am going to request my money back because this game is not suited to purpose and is unplayable

Do NOT buy this game. unless you like wasting money, then go ahead. This game is beyond terrible. The gameplay is tedious and extremely boring and repetetive. Graphics are about Sega Saturn quality. The background is in 2 dimensions and looks like it was copy/paste from Google Earth. Vehicles have crap speed and handling. You can capsize a truck when going 20 mph! The mechanics are extremely confusing and take about an hour to grasp. The whole thing is sloppy. TNT doesn't cause explosions, it just makes dirt "magically" dissapear. The glitches are AWFUL. In one vehicle, the camera spased out and I couldn't see it, even after restarting the game. The TDM requires concrete in order to build the tunnel. But there is not enough concrete within the level to suffice the TDM and it doesn't respawn. So, that's how I failed the TUTORIAL. The biggest problem about the big picture is, it doesn't feel like the player is in control. He has to do whatever the game allows him to. For example, you can't drive into certain parts of the excavation site, losing sense of freedom. Which is what the simulator is all about. It just makes you feel like building an actual tunnel in real life. But that's the big issue with this game. The ENTIRE purpose of a simulator is to augment an experience in which feels like real life, without it actually being so. The fact that it fails the one key piece of a simulator, just makes this a bad simulator. So, just forget about ever having a fun experience with this game, and just get Euro Truck Sim. You'll have many more hours of entertainment than this garbage. Also, I've heard about some performance issues. But, I have a GTX 760 and can run the program with max details just fine. So I haven't really found this as a valid issue.

The setting of this game is one that really piqued my interest, who would've thought that mining and tunneling in a post-apocalyptic European Union would be so immersive? The main story behind the game, which the developers subtly drop clues and hints about, is that a group of individuals, cloned from the same template, are made to mine and tunnel for one of the many enclaves that emerged from the ruins of a nuclear war on a global scale, in a ragtag prequel to the famous "metro" series. The gameplay is very symbolic of how we are all trying to burrow ourselves into a little hole to escape the pressures of society. You don't just move rocks - you move hearts. The roar of the machines is the only motivation you need. They're there not just for manual support - they give more approval to you than your boss-bailiff, whom you never meet face-to-face. Your frustrations are almost literally blown away by the satisfaction of moving masses of earth, which is as simple as T...N...T. I was amazed at the concept of using gentically identical clones as manual labourers, and the subtle argument for its' establishment in the workplace portrayed by the game. While I disagree with oligopolistic conglomerates cloning its' own workforce, the game makes a convincing argument for the "pros" side of the argument. Oh and P.S., this game is boring. Really boring. You must detonate, pick up, and move gravel until your fingers, eyes, and brain bleed and you have the brain activity of a tomato. If you buy this game, I will call Interpol and notify the international criminal court of your heinous act. (don't buy it pls)

Terrible. I nearly aged another year by playing this game for a few minutes. It's incredibly dull and boring and cannot fathom as to why anyone would purposefully purchase this game. Still, I guess it's a decent attempt at simulating a tunnel boring process, for some obscure reason you may want that. I received this as part of a bundle, so please don't assume I bought it, I'd be embarrased. I took me a few minutes to figure out exactly why I was provided with a utility van when I just wanted to blow something up. The game starts you off with in a utility van, you need to visit various marked off locations near the tunnel boring site in order to place TNT (which is invisible), it goes boom! then you have to shift a bunch of rocks (which glitch through the front-end loader), followed by a digging/boring process, followed by... ok, I didn't get that far. Pro's: 1. If you like digging holes - this is for you. But bear in mind, they are predetermined craters. 2. If you are attracted to the notion of holding 'F' several times for seemingly no real reason, then this is for you 3. If you like driving poor handling utility vans and front-end loaders, then this is for you 4. It has explosions, but barely depictable, I had to take a few screenshots at the time to see if it actually was an explosion or just a bit of dust. Yes, it's just dust. Con's: 1. Graphics are probably worse off than games produced in the late 1990's. Some serious low quality 2D texture stuff going on. 2. Frustrating gameplay 3. Poor physics, I'm not actually sure why they bothered with that. 4. Your brain might shutdown from boredom Go spend your ten bucks somewhere else. Or just give it away altogether.

This game is only partially playable, provided you avoid a bug with the front end loader in the first mission anyways. You'll reach the third tunnel project, all seems to be going well...and then the tunnel boring machine just stops. It's not in need of more cement plates nor does it need maintenance, rather it simply quits moving forward. Having played through the game twice to get to that point, both saves on separate PCs using different operating systems, something isn't right. UIE as usual never replied to my support request email, no surprise. Sooo yeah, unless you acquired this as part of an old bundle and are curious I would not bother picking Mining & Tunneling Simulator up. If you want a functional UIE title, try Recycle or one of their older Agri Sim releases instead.

The game seems very bland and boring, with not a whole lot to do on top of a bad physics engine. 2/10 (May be some enjoyment out of messing around if you download a save for the other campaigns or something) My experience with the game was clicking the only level available which is a tutorial, trying to drive the van to the locations, trying to lay down dynamite but it tipping over every turn. After finally placing them the tooltip said to pick up the rubble and throw into the designated area with the minimap showing the way there. I figured it meant take the rubble away from the area using the loader and dump truck but the loader takes too long to maneuvre, the camera makes it hard to see positioning and you can only carry a couple rocks from the ground into the loader at a time. As the loader was about half-full I guess back of the loader was caught on the front of the dump and it just sent both vehicles flying away from eachother. It just looked too tedious to continue and finish the job with I expect not much more to be added apart from monotomy...

Oh, oh... I love simulations... Sim Ant, Sim World, Sim City, Sim Life etc. I had luck, this game was in a bundle so it came quite cheap - but, if you look closer to this simulation you can see that it goes without the merits of the old time simulations that fans of the simulation genre fancy so much. It isn't as bad as some other simulations that were published over the past few years, but still it isn't a good simulation - it lacks the long term motivation thing, that kept us playing Sim City, the novelty of Sim Ant, and the complexity of Sim World and Sim Life. I even have to ask myself, is this a "Simulation" in the original sense of the meaning? I had to say: No. It is a "drive around a site of civil engineering and mining and try out the construction site equipment. I like building machinery, I like tractors - mostly because I grew up on a rural town, were you had those things as "toys" to play around. Thus the game fails the descriptor - "Simulation", at least in the most obvious ways. And then, is a game that simulates day to day routines of a "everyday"-job a good thing to simulate? Do you want to be a construction site worker for real (I have been for three years after grammar-school), or a trucker, a farmer or forester? And to what extend do you wish to "simulate" the job? If you answer any of this three questions with a denial, this game clearly isn't for you. If you answer just two of those with a no, or say you don't like simplifications on sims - be wary of this game. If you answer all those with yes, or say that you want a casual, simplified sim - you might have a hit here; there are no calculations of quantities required, no structural engineering calculations and no insurances for your workers... so much for the Sim Part of the game ;-) Since the user base is very limited, I won't recomend the game - though I sometimes might enjoy that kind of "simplification"...

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More like 'drive around a construction site' simulator with broken physics, because there's not a lot of mining here. WIth these physics though I don't think there should be anyway.

Boring game about boring tunnels. ... We need to go deeper.