OFF-WORLD PROSPECTING

Dig to discover in the sands of an alien world

- By Ian Evenden

Ah, mining. It's a strange thing, perhaps, that digging things out of the soil by sheer hard work has become so popular among those of us who would rather be facing a monitor than monitoring a cliff face, but here we are once again, tunneling into the earth.

Except it's not Earth, but L 98-59 b, a future colony world that has more going on than it might at first appear. It's the work of a solo dev known as Prospector, and you certainly do spend a lot of time in the game looking down a hole with a shovel in your hands.