1/1/2023 0 Comments Undermine game reviewYou soon learn that each enemy has a particular pattern to it and using the attack in the right way will help you dispatch them. You defeat enemies by swiping with your pickaxe up close or flinging it from a distance. The controls are simple to pick up and play. These make future runs just a little easier as well as giving you the incentive to replay to check out your upgrades. UNDERMINE GAME REVIEW UPGRADEThis can be used to permanently upgrade various abilities as well as obtain permanent items to aid you in your quest. When you die you lose a portion of gold, the rest passes on to the next randomly generated peasant. These curses can be lifted but the risk is yours to take. Some though may grant you useful items but at a cost of a curse which adds an extra challenge to the gameplay, for example, having lanterns in a room shoot fire at you. There are various treasure chests to discover most will give you gold, health, keys or bombs. It does also mean that some runs will undoubtedly be better than others. This way these abilities combine to adjust the gameplay in such a way that every playthrough feels quite unique and different. You can also collect potions to temporarily buff certain stats. As you work your way through, you can find upgrades which will buff your abilities such as increasing your health or attack etc. The main goal is to get to the end of each level, progressing as far as you can before dying and defeating any large boss that gets in your way. You have a health bar so making mistakes is fine but like most games in this genre, death can come pretty quickly early on. This is a top-down action game where you move through random dungeons defeating enemies and collecting gold. Yes, you can pet the dog Randomly Generated Dungeons Overall it feels family-friendly and suited to everyone. Even the enemies themselves have a kinda cute feeling to them particularly these blobs that spawn to come and steal your gold in each room. The tone of the game is very light-hearted. There’s not a lot of story but there are plenty of characters to encounter, each of whom have advice to dispense and a bit of witty dialogue to deliver. The intro screen shows a line of peasants entering the mine one after the other on a quest for gold and adventure. Tens of hours later I still seem to be having that chat and I forgot to drink my coffee because I got so distracted. Just when I think there is no more room in my gaming life for another rogue-lite, Undermine comes along to buy me a coffee and asks me to sit down for a chat. UNDERMINE GAME REVIEW CODEReview code provided with many thanks to Thorium The Quest for Gold System: Nintendo Switch (also on Steam, PS4 & Xbox)
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