Idle Miners Settlement

 

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Grab your Steam-powered shove and dig up: Idle Miners Settlement

Today I bring you a fantasy-based game that has a very unique way of how idle elements are incorporated into the level design and how your progress. The basic story is you arrive in an abandoned village and meet the village elder that refused to leave. Your job is to rebuild the village and draw in others to return.

This is an idle game loaded with a lot of story. This is an idle game that has a clear goal of 'defeat the necromancer.' The game uses a progressive system where you must really focus on unlocking all of the mines first before you can build up the village. You have to gain dollars to train and upgrade the pets to mine for you. 

You are given quests that guide you along to what you have to do to progress the story and upgrade buidlings. When you get to a point and you have all your mines, Then the game turns into a RPG where you must forge equipment and then kill many evil monsters. Leveling up does not seem to give you any stat increases and everything is dependent on equipemnt. As you level, you do unlock Rune slots to use magic totems to buff your stats.

The first thing you fix up is a home of your relatives. This is the only building that does nothing at all for you. You can't sleep to regenerate health or anything. You do get a chest beside the house to store stuff you pick up along the way.

As your build up the village, you unlock the pet trainer. It takes a LOT of money to start improving the later pets you open up when you find a new mine. These animals will do all the mining for you and even pick it up for you!

You can unlock the forge later on in the game. Once you do you must then find schematics for severy other items. It takes a long time to gain these from story or from randon drops from the airship. Some enemeies also drop them as well. For a very long time you do not have the ability to many many items. There seems to be many pics and axes but I dont know what effects they offer.

The forge, pet trainer and airship has a special shop that uses purple gems to buy shematics as well. The best way to gain them is by completing Achievements. Sometimes optional videos as well. It takes a long time to gain enough gems to buy shematics.

You personal inventory. You can use the purple gems to expand out your inventory. As you reach to the bottom it takes 150 gems per slots. I did not get to buy all of the slots during my playthough. All your tools are stored her along with any schematics you find.

You can also find persona pet shards as well. Equipping a pet allows you to sell materials from anywhere and you get 5 extra inventory slots for free as we..

Here is where you can have runewords active. As you gain levels you gain more slots to cast potent spells to give you boosts to stats or add protections.

Here is an example of one of the mines. The deeper down you go the longer it takes you to mine the stones yourself. You must manually mine stones as well to gain special colored stones used in various things. Sadly any manual mining you do does not continue on with idle mechanics as you are away. So no idle leveling or getting certian materails while away.

Here has a list of achievements for you achieve. This is the easiest way to gain purple gems for buying inventory slots or schematics.

Lastly is the shop menu. Here you can gain 10 free purple gems by watching optional videos. These packs seem to give you a decent value for what you pay.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

This game offers a lot of unique mechanichs wiht how an idle game works. At points you are forced to wait a very long time just to progress. Because of this you can only play a couple minutes a day before you can't progress any more. This really slows down the game more than it needs to be.

Story:

 4 of 5 cogs.

For an idle game, there's a decent amount of story. That was one of the most surprising things that greeted men when I started to play this game. 

Amount of ads:

 none beyond optional ads

There are a lot of optional ads that pop up for you to get dollars and purple gems. You really have to watch a lot of videos to speed up the game without paying for anything.

Accurate Advertising?:

80%

The video Ads for this game are ever so slightly misguiding. They only show a portion of the gameplay and 

Graphics:

 3 of 5 cogs.

The art is a lot of drawn pixel art but with a very odd zoomed in scale. Something about this art feels od to be and it's not the best I've seen.

Gameplay:

 4 of 5 cogs.

The gameplay is fairly repeititve and it takes times to progress and discover new things. When you do there's a lot of things to discover and figure out.

Free play:

💯%

You can play this game fairly well without paying anything into it but it takes a lot of time to progress.

Fun factor:

💎idle mining for you money.

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