![]() This means that your gameplay and all the resources you mined can easily vanish into nothing. ![]() When the host suddenly decides to leave the game, there is no host migration for the rest of the team to continue playing. This, of course, comes with some downsides which I’ve personally experienced. The caves being procedurally-generated also help in this aspect.ĭeep Rock Galactic uses a peer-to-peer network, meaning that there are no servers. Deep Rock Galactic masks the lower-poly design with density in their caves – flora, fauna, verticality and complexity – allowing them to still retain their beauty and awe when stumbling into them. ![]() While this might be a turn-off to some players who value graphics, I found the style to be reminiscent of the planets and their environments in No Man’s Sky. The player hub sports a detailed design but you may find that the cave designs and style are instead, lower-poly. The game has also taken home the titles Indie Game of the Year and Excellence in Multiplayer at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming Awards ceremony just last year. Today, the reviews are ‘overwhelmingly positive’ on Steam. I’m also not entirely pleased that writing this article is making me spend more time away from the game.ĭeveloped by Danish studio Ghost Ship Games and published by Coffee Stain Publishing, Deep Rock Galactic was initially released in 2018 in early access and fully released two years later in 2020. When Deep Rock Galactic was first announced at E3 (a trade event for the videogame industry) in 2017 with a reveal trailer running just over a minute, I brushed it off with the thought that this was not the kind of game I would enjoy playing.įast forward to the time that I am writing this review, I have 59 hours logged and my flatmates are watching me continue to abandon writing my 5000-word essay due at the end of January in order to play more. Utterly consumed by this simple Dwarven co-op game, Minn Yap introduces Deep Rock Galactic and its core mechanics in this review and tells us why you should give it a go.
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