Lunar Giant Studios
Delve Deeper is a turn-based strategy game. It has potential, but I do not think it accomplishes its goal, which is to make delving deeper into a mine fun.
The game revolves around teams of dwarves trying to delve deeper into a mine. Each team is trying to win at this sort of sport to see which team can collect the most treasure.
The controls can be confusing if you use a mouse, but the game favors a controller. The controls are not bad, but I must say the interface presents the controls in a less-than intuitive way.
The graphics consist of hexagons filled with animated sprites and cleverly matched environments on each hexagonal tile. The tiles are very nice and a welcome visual style, and the sprites are animated decently enough.
The gameplay is overly simple. You really only need to use the mouse to control everything you can control, so yeah, there is not much going on. The dwarves go wherever you tell them to go, within their range, and the only danger is in having your dwarves fight random creatures and the other dwarves. There are a few different types of treasure but they all offer the same gameplay mechanic: tell the dwarf to go to the tile the treasure is on, he loots it, tell the dwarf to go back to base and deposit the loot. That repetition is on-going for as long as you play the game, and there are not many distractions.
If the game was designed to give you control of a single dwarf, you could possibly have the ability to jump around and interact more with the game's visuals, but that is not the case.
Even though this game is extremely affordable at $5, you should only get the game if you are getting it as a bundled item and really want the other item. Coincidentally, that is how I first received the game, through a bundle deal.
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