These rooms make for a nice change of pace, as you go from literally carving out your own path through a massive sprawling world to being in a confined space with very specific solutions. You’ll also come across cave entrances that take you to an impressive variety of self-contained challenges. Dungeon layouts take devious pride in enemy positioning and cleverly hidden secrets. In contrast to its predecessor, SteamWorld Dig 2’s world is not procedurally generated, and you can feel the handcrafted quality as a result. It has the same core gameplay loop of digging for riches, but leans further into platforming, puzzle solving and RPG elements, while boasting a gorgeously detailed aesthetic. SteamWorld Dig 2 is very much the sequel I was hoping for. It’s a glorious a tale of robot cowboys, mutant humans and mysterious technology. A steampunk Western, it sends you digging deep into the earth, searching out precious resources to sell in the dusty, one-mechanical horse town above. In the cluttered landscape of fictional post-apocalyptic worlds, 2013’s SteamWorld Dig was a breath of fresh air.

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