Ring Miner
Operate a mining rover in outer space.
Your domain is vast: each and every rock orbiting the planet can be mined, anywhere.
This game features an Open World where you can truly dig anywhere and everywhere.
Every planetoid, roughly a billion cubic feet of rock, and you can start prospecting where ever you want. You can even tunnel from one end to the other end of the planetoid, if you so desire.ProceduralThe planet’s ring is procedurally generated, with every orbiting rock unique. There is no telling what you will find. Hidden cavities, twisted terrains, rich veins of ore, it is all out there, floating in space.
The rocks are generated from a 64 bit seed, giving a total of 18 billion billion different rocks. That is an 18 with 18 zeros behind it.Rover
The little mining rover has six wheels and can climb pretty much any terrain. Just try to keep it upright.
The rover is equipped with a laser turret to blast the terrain. Dig holes, create tunnels, find ore veins, so that you can collect those precious off-world minerals.Transport
To hop from planetoid to planetoid, load your rover in the transport ship, and take control of the space flight. Find a good landing spot, so that your rover can do some prospecting on virgin grounds.REQUIREMENTS
WARNING: You require a CPU with AVX2 support.
WARNING: You require OpenGL and OpenCL drivers installed on your system.
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
Ring miner is a space mining simulator in which you control a lander and a rover. You pilot the lander around a ring of space rocks (around Jupiter), find one that looks suitable (the next one in the ring), land on it, then explore and mine elements in order to collect each one in the periodic table.
This game has complete three dimensional movement, a gravity indicator to help with analyzing landings, the possibility to completely annihilate space rocks, and what is basically an infinite amount of rocks to mine. I have not played anything like this before and I think it's pretty unique. Check out the gameplay video to see what I mean.
Steam User 2
Another great lil simulation game from Stolk! The physics are robust and the interface is intuitive. Driving around and digging through asteroids feels good, but at the moment this is mostly just a sandbox to play around in. I'm hoping more missions and things to DO will be added in the future, but even in its current form it's a good chill-out game for messing around in while listening to some music or a podcast.