![]() Puzzles (and platforming challenges) generally communicate quite well what the general idea behind them is, so this makes the process of choosing how to equip yourself feel very purposeful. Skills can be turned on/off according to what you need for upcoming challenging, though special cogs that you can find will allow you to enable more and more customizations at once – which makes exploration fun and functional, and very rewarding when you find one or more of these cogs. Mining and finding loot means you have funds to spend back in the city, and this allows you to upgrade your character and skillset. I’m sure that, as a matter of personal preference, that won’t apply to everyone – but it certainly felt like a big improvement to me. SteamWorld Dig wasn’t nearly as “bad” as Minecraft in this regard, but SteamWorld Dig 2 is a real delight in how it features much more tightly designed underground sections, puzzles and pathways. I’m not a big Minecraft fan and enjoy when my games have a little more of a (linear) purpose to them and generally don’t want to spend tons of time aimlessly searching for what to do. If there was one thing I didn’t fully enjoy in the first SteamWorld Dig title it was that the digging sections felt a little too “Minecrafty” to me. ![]() The entire area has been affected by strange earthquakes – and of course this ties in perfectly to the game’s theme of literally digging for ways to progress in the game. Your job is to find out what happened to Rusty, while at the same time getting to the bottom of what’s been happening to city you live in. Narratively, SteamWorld Dig 2 follows the events of the first game, although protagonist Rusty has gone missing and you now follow Dorothy, a robot shopkeeper. But where the Oddworld franchise never quite reached the heights of the original Abe games, Image and Form’s SteamWorld franchise just seems to be getting stronger and stronger. Both franchises feature recognizable and beloved game worlds with different approaches between the various games that use them – SteamWorld Heist is very different from the SteamWorld Dig games. Image & Form’s library of titles is starting to remind me a little bit of the Oddworld titles that first graced the original Playstation about twenty years ago and have since made appearances on numerous systems. And if you own any of those systems, you need to own this game. We focused on the Playstation Vita version for this review, but the game is also available for Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac and PS4. Swedish developer Image & Form has launched SteamWorld Dig 2 as a sequel to the 2014 original.
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