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Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.

BORE BLASTERS is a dwarf, mining and exploration game developed and published by 8BitSkull.
Released on March 08th 2024 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 643 reviews of which 528 were positive and 115 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam with a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified BORE BLASTERS into these genres:

Dwarf Mining Exploration Loot Action Procedural Generation Rogue-lite Action Roguelike Collectathon Casual Arcade Fantasy Rogue-like Steampunk Underground Score Attack Action-Adventure Pixel Graphics 2D Singleplayer

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: 2.3 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX® 9 Compatible Graphics Card
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 11+
Processor: 64-bit Intel and ARM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

Processor: 2.3 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Please note Wayland with NVIDIA is likely to cause issues. Game should run fine with X11.

User reviews & Ratings

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Nov. 2024

Sideways thumb. It's missing something for me to really care and get invested in it, but it's pretty easy to load it up and play through a few stages and have fun.

Aug. 2024

As a fan of Void Scrappers, I decided to check out this mining shmup from developer 8BitSkull. A bit like Super Motherload, the story plays out in text conversations as you carve new mineshafts and collect gems, but unlike in that game, you don't have to ascend to the surface to complete a run. Let alone periodically to refuel and repair. Instead, the fuel supply and hull integrity of your ship needs to last until you reach your objective. Otherwise, it's a failed run, though you get to keep the collected gems to use extending your craft's range, adding armor to its hull, or upgrading the guns. Yep, you blast your way through a variety of different types of rock strata using a gatling gun, which is helpful also against enemies who appear in increasing numbers as the game goes on and you clear more levels which are represented by grid squares in the game's overworld map. Depending on the character you choose, there is a recharging special ability, though I have a tough time imagining playing the game without my chosen character's ability of a boost that carves through rock like butter and makes it much easier to reach the objective within one tank of gas (and some pickups along the way). While I was still reserving judgment a bit, two hours in, at the four hour mark I realized that not only is this game addictive, it's pretty fun. The upgrade system does an admirable job of keeping the player right on the edge of the mining craft being powerful enough to reach the end of the longer levels, without making this feel a dawdle trivialized by these improvements. I could easily walk away, now, and be satisfied with the experience, but I'm still enjoying myself and will keep going to try and clear the rest of the levels. One of the things that I appreciated about Void Scrappers was that, unlike a lot of the "forever games" in the genre, it had an attainable ending. And this looks to be similar in that respect.

Aug. 2024

BORE BLASTER is a fun little game that I did enjoy playing for 2/3 of the way. It's just fun to dive into the dig sites with your little helicopter, gathering crystals and upgrading your vehicle during the run. The goal is always to blast through rocks and stones fighting enemies and collecting resources on your descent to the big chest at the bottom of each dig site (that's your exit). The biomes vary, not just for the actual level but also depending on the depth you are in. Overall a very entertaining experience. However, once you have all of the permanent upgrades, the game becomes a bit boring in the last third. All you can use your resources for is buying one-off perks that give you more stats for a run. This makes the game too easy as you become overpowered pretty fast in a run. I can still recommend the game but would buy it in a sale.

May 2024

+ It scratches my itch for mining and bullet hell. + Floods my brain with dopamine. - I died more times to the terrain than the enemies because the developer thought that CONTACT DAMAGE ON TERRAIN GEOMETRY was a good idea. (I seriously considered giving this a negative review on how frustrating it feels) - It's grindy, i've been playing for 6 hours and the last permanent upgrades takes 2 million each while you get on average 100k gold per map. Right now I am just rushing the objectives and the end each run for the "story". - Item balance has the same problem as the game "20 Minutes Till Dawn" where upgrading the main gun is always the best option as it synergizes with most upgrades. Everything else is a gimmick build, and some upgrades are either useless or a downgrade. + It's a simple formula of a game and it's somehow really fun. The average casual player is gonna have a blast playing this game, I guarantee. This game reminds me of a classic flash game called "Motherlode" or its sequel on steam, as the whole digging down on a limited fuel capacity gameplay felt similar, this has a lot more action of course. I wonder if it was actually inspired by it.

April 2024

A cute little dig-to-the-core type game with roguelite elements. You've probably played this style of game before if you're looking at this genre, but you've never played it with quite this level of upgrading in a single run! Instead of just digging slightly faster or in a line, you get roguelike style upgrades on each run where you might end up with an explosive minigun build that causes gems to explode and shoot out projectiles that kill enemies and cause them to explode and shoot out more projectiles... I think you get it, there's a lot of explosions! And drones and bullets... Maybe not enough lasers. I think the "end-game" could use a bit of work as I finished most all of the story content as far as I can tell at about 70% game completion. I'm at close to 90% now I think with like a dozen levels left to clear and I don't expect there to be anything new, but I'm compelled enough to actually finish this one out!

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-50% 8.99€ 4.49€

7.8

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Developer

8BitSkull

Publisher

8BitSkull

Release 08 Mar 2024

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