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This was a cute little game. Played through twice.

Controls and physics felt great. This is in the vein of the classic top-down space shooters like Asteroids or Mine Storm, in terms of how easy it is to take it in hand. Contrary to these two games, the gameplay is usually chill. There's a good variety of mining tools, and a few different types of missions. Each mission plays in a few minutes only, but often you can just take your time and go at it as slowly as you wish to. Some missions have time limits but they're not very strictly enforced. There isn't any real combat. You can die, but it's not very punishing at all unless you're playing ironman difficulty of course. In other difficulties, you can simply restart the mission if you die and lose nothing. The content is not a lot, but it's well polished. As far as I'm concerned it's appropriate to the price point.

The story is a bit one-note. Without going into spoilers, you can go along with being a corporate drone, or you can be a bit of a hooligan with company property. I do wish there was a more marked fork in the mission path depending on your actions.

There are some minor improvements I'd like to see:
- the main menu should offer a 'Continue' option that loads the most recent save.
- it would be nice if there were some non-campaign, 'sandbox' type missions to let you play a bit more with some of the tools you can equip on the ship (it's probably possible to do this through save-scumming at the right places through the campaign right now but I haven't looked into it)

After spending 9-10 hours with the game I'm probably done with it, but I'll certainly come back if there's new content or just to give it another spin one of these days.

good game