The game has a fast travel system which is a big tube system that sprawls down and up to the El Machino. It isn’t just for ease of access to the hub city, but also a way to help navigation within the caves. It’s a very fun way to make your choices feel like they matter, even though you’re digging into some dirt.
This makes you end up having to think pretty hard about where you want to mine, because when you go back up or down you might not be able to reach a certain area again. So after you mine it or sell something, that’s it. There are mineable resources spaced out in the dirt and rock as you dig yourself down, and as you head to El Machino, the city above, they can be exchanged for gold. Resources in SteamWorld Dig 2 are finite, in that they don’t respawn.
#Steamworld dig 1 vs 2 full#
The caverns, where you will spend most of your time, are expertly designed and full of many surprises to find. The aesthetic representation of the world is breathtaking every piece of the game environment is hand drawn. The game takes Dot and Fen through many beautiful caverns and environments where they encounter MUCH stranger things than they had anticipated. She’s on a personal quest to find the protagonist from the first game, Rusty, who has gone missing. Dot is eventually joined by Fen, a sarcastic and inquisitive god/spirit of the weird and strange technology that she meets in the caverns. In SteamWorld Dig 2 you play as a robot by the name of Dot. After finally playing the game, to say that I came away impressed would be an understatement. The research that I did before playing led me to find a beautifully crafted and well thought out universe by Swedish developers Image & Form.
#Steamworld dig 1 vs 2 series#
Having never played a game in the series before (but hearing so much praise from my boss, co-workers and my favorite journalists) I was excited to dig into something new. I had no idea what to expect going into SteamWorld Dig 2. This is where the SteamWorld series picks up. They’ve been programmed to mine and excavate, so they continue doing their duties and eventually learning to think on their own. The advancement of technology and the quick access to raw materials lead humanity to build stronger and more powerful weapons, eventually leading to war and wiping the Earth clean of humans, save for those few who escaped underground. There’s an alternate reality that exists where humans had huge technological advancements in the 1800’s, leading to the creation of robots whose sole purpose is to dig and excavate ore and resources for mankind.
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