Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $12.99. It has been as low as $5.19.
- Gameplay: 95 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 31 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 938 player reviews · updated 7 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The core gameplay loop is good and I would say it is worth full price (which is decent anyhow).
The game embraces a playful science-fiction setting filled with quirky humor, unusual characters, and imaginative concepts that give the universe its own personality.
The hand-drawn art style complements the relaxed atmosphere exceptionally well.
The soundtrack further supports the experience by delivering calm background music that fits the game's steady pacing.
I am baffled at how they so elegantly nailed the difficulty curve of delving through ever-more challenging planets with ever-increasing rewards, threw a variety of quite cool upgrades, powerups and obstacles at me, and made it satisfying both to struggle through difficult monster-ridden worlds where I'm clinging to every powerup crate for dear life, and for cakewalk levels where I dig out every single block.
Galactic Mining Corp feels like something between one of those addictive web-browser games you'd find back in the day, and a modern mobile game without exploitative microtransactions.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $12.99. The lowest we've tracked is $5.19.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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