Steamworld Dig 2

I smell treasure

The sequel has arrived for the Switch and the first game was rather enjoyable. It continues a time later after the first game when Dot, the girl robot from the first game arrives to look for Rusty after he disappeared. She arrives at the nearby town and starts to investigate some strange earthquakes and find this floating spirit named Fin that will be your sarcastic partner during the adventure. Rest of the game works like the first one, mine for minerals, get it back and upgrade your things and go even deeper. The game isn't only the mine and town this time around since you can travel to the left and right for even more things like a temple for some suicide cult and... another way into the main mine, but it at least feels bigger.

Mine Mine Mine All Day Long!

The game took me a bit less than 10 hours to finish and 74 % of all secrets found. The end game serves up a bit of a twist. Playing through it I believed Rusty would be the end boss, that he had been possessed by the evil machine in the last game. The game even encourage this theory when you meet mutant humans living at the bottom of the mine that tells you that Rusty built several machines that seems to correlate with the earthquakes. After disarming them the way to the humans are blocked so after entering their sewer system you confront Rosie that have taken Rusty and uses him to power her mech-suit. The machines Rusty installed was to siphon the energy from the core so it wouldn't explode. I had to do the boss battle twice since the first time I wasn't that prepared, but after changing cog-upgrades it worked a lot better. In the end the spirit Fin stays behind to teleport Dot and Rusty to the surface so that everyone can escape on rockets that was built during the course of the game... and then the planet explodes. I guess they are setting up the world of Steamworld Heist since that is in space and a destroyed planet usually fits the bill. I really need to finish that game as well. Overall a fun game.