Hydroneer

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Hydroneer is a base-building, mining and sandbox game developed and published by Foulball Hangover.
Released on May 08th 2020 is available only on Windows in 19 languages: English, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Italian, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

It has received 23,435 reviews of which 20,377 were positive and 3,058 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.91€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Hydroneer into these genres:

Base-Building Mining Sandbox Automation Co-op Open World Building Funny Multiplayer Casual Resource Management Simulation Indie Singleplayer Adventure Crafting First-Person Strategy Split Screen Family Friendly

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Quad-Core 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 2.4 GHZ CPU
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB DirectX 11 dedicated video card
Storage: 10 GB available space

Reviews

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Aug. 2024

Nice and fun in general, however, I have a few gripes. - The picking up and dropping mechanics are extremely annoying. If you want to drop something from your hand into something, you need to position yourself so that thing is on the bottom right of your screen, indicated by a small circular shadow that's only visible in the daylight. - Traveling from area to area is extremely tedious, unless you have the truck. - Not really a gripe with the game, but just so you know the game feels kind of like a simulator as you generally follow the same process for digging and mining several times before you get anywhere. - This is the biggest one I have of all. Many of the machines/equipment snap to a grid within your dig site, and all resources, as well as machines/equipment can be picked up with E, meaning if you accidentally point your screen next to a resource and try to pick it up while it is on something, you will end up picking up the thing its on instead of the resource, and unsnap it from the grid. The number of times I've had to keep moving my stuff around because of this is beyond me, and it's even driven me to quit a few times lol. That being said, I still generally enjoy the game, and I am always curious to discover something new the more I play. So in the end, still a good game and recommended if you can get past the points above.

July 2024

That's... a tough game to review, and my relationships with it could be only described as love-hate. I hate to love it. It's a game about mining with automation, but mining is first and foremost. And all its problems arise from this. You dig the dirt, you clean it up to find something useful in it, get the resources, sell the resources or make something out of them and sell that for slightly higher price. However, almost everything is just a little bit more inconvenient than it absolutely has to be. You dug the dirt, now you have the inconvenience of uneven ground until you buy a rake to fix that. You bought a rake - have fun raking every tile separately without ability to hold the button and just keep the elevation. And pray it won't change raking direction or elevation at the last moment before you click. Because it can, and it will, and suddenly you have a block of dirt where you don't want it or a hole where you don't want it. You buy a pickaxe and want to dig down - well, you can, but it's awfully slow, and you won't see anything underground. You take your trusty lamp with you, but can't hold a pickaxe... ok, time to go buy a helmet with a forehead lamp. You bought a helmet, equipped it with Q and mining got better, but you can't enter any vehicle while in that hat. You have to unequip it, because... it counts as a vehicle, of course. What else? Bought a machine to dig into the ground? Well, it can't keep the elevation either. It can't even keep itself flat. Bought a ground flattening machine? It does the job just fine, but can't flatten dirt when it's just a bit too high, so make sure to start from the highest place and whittle it down first. Belts could be only built on pipes, and you can't take out a pipe from a belt to replace it. You have to remove a belt segment first. ...oh, right, and the biggest inconvenience of them all. You have no inventory, and EVERY SINGLE ITEM IN THE GAME always exist in the world in some form. Probably the only exception I found so far are spanners to fix your machines. Yes, of course they break. Why would you think that automation present in the game will just work? Anyway, every single pipe, belt, floor, wall, or almost everything else have to be bought in a shop and brought to a dig-site, and you can't just buy "pipes" or "belts" and lay them down happily. Of course not. Not only you can't make them (even though you can make weapons and jewelry), but they exist in different types like straight pipe, bent pipe, T-junction pipe, X-ju... oh, right, there's no X-junction pipe for whatever asinine reason. Belts also exist in variants as straight, left turn, right turn, up belt, left filter belt, right filter belt. Bought a wrong one? Well, too bad, the best you can do is to put it aside and hope you'll need it later. And so on, and so forth. I can list every single inconvenience for hours at this point. And yet, I love the game and I don't know why. BTW, buy yourself a few extra carts asap. Carts and cars are the closest approximation of an inventory you'll have in this game, as well as a pan for small items. You can attach a cart to a car if you hop on top of a storage part of a car and unequip your cart (E) or enter driving mode (Q). When you visit a shop, just go there with a cart and drop everything you want to buy into it. This way, you won't have to move items one by one to the buy platform and then again to your car. Just don't forget to pay, or your ears will be assaulted with a loud scream as soon as you try to leave the shop with "stolen" goods. The more of them in a cart, the louder it will be. And two more tips: always have a bucket of water in every car with inventory, and change drop target pointer color (displayed on the ground where the item you hold in your hands will drop) to white. You'll thank me later.

April 2024

It's a great game about digging, panning, and mining, with an interesting gimmick: No Inventory. Can you build up an industrial empire with a pallet and a truck? Can you satisfy the demands of the townfolk in need? Can you find the secret treasures of the ancients? The tasks are daunting and the mysteries are abound, but the rewards are great and worthwhile. If creativity is your jam, this game is dripping with content for you to explore. I hear there's even a giant Volcano somewhere around to build your lair at... (sharks with friggin' laser beams not included). 500 hours played, enjoyed every minute of it. Except for minute #18,207, but that was the Lobster's fault. A+. Would buy again.

April 2024

This is not a game about mining. This is a game about putting all the materials to build a new mining outpost on a wooden palette and then carrying it to the dig site with 99% of your field of view blocked by pipes and conveyor belts you stacked precariously that occasionally gets interrupted by you mining some iron.

March 2024

At first, the game makes you want to put your balls through a hydraulic press. But after you're done getting mild CTE from bashing your head into your desk, trying not to go insane, while figuring out how tf everything works, yea the game is pretty fun. My only complaint is that there isn't multiplayer, so i can't put my friends through the same torture. TLDR 8.5/10 -fun but i wish there was multiplayer

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-60% 14.79€ 5.91€

8.5

20,377

3,058

Online players

755

Developer

Foulball Hangover

Publisher

Foulball Hangover

Release 08 May 2020

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