More challenging still, these caves can look very different when you’re de-lunking back up the same route you just spelunked down. Now, your team have five minutes to make it back to the escape pod - back through the complicated web of tunnels and ziplines and platforms you’ve laid out - before it leaves without you, failing the mission.The menagerie of skittering xenobugs, previously scattered about the caves or attacking in telegraphed waves, are now a constant, aggressive threat.

You’ve mined the requisite minerals, or stolen some alien eggs for research, or slain a few giant bosses. You’ve explored the tunnels, fought back the giant bugs trying to stop you.

That desperate rush I described above was the exfiltration phase. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Let me tell you why Deep Rock Galactic - a game that the phrase ‘more than the sum of its parts’ could have been invented for - is an absolute gem. The high level concept for this game is Left 4 Dead meets Minecraft, both undeniably influential games that, personally, I don’t have much enthusiasm for. I leave with a shiny haul of gems, and roughly two seconds to spare. My final, desperate platform shot does the rest. It’s then I spot it: A geyser venting trails of steam that can propel my dwarf into the air. My platform-creating gun has a single shot left, and I’ve nowhere near enough time to dig my way up. After a seeming eternity of desperate scrambling, I’ve made it to the cavern containing the escape pod, my heart sinking as I see how high up it is. I have seven seconds to bypass twenty feet of sheer rock face to reach a subterranean escape pod before it propels itself back up through the planet’s surface, leaving my dwarven engineer trapped in a network of dark tunnels teeming with screeching alien insects. This first-person mining game has tons of detail, tons of character, and tons of riotous bug blasting, spelunking co-operative goodness.

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