Hydroneer on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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 24,728 reviews of which 21,422 were positive and 3,306 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 5.91€ on Steam with a 60% discount.
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System 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
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so fun i spent 3 hours and got full automated ore in no time i recommend and it made me feel so proud of my automated and my mum was proud to
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I give this a light recommendation when on sale. The core of the game is solid, but there are many annoying and tedious things that bring it down, along with a lack of an endgame or final goals. To put it simply, there is a very simple "best way" to make a mine and there's not much else to do besides that. Or actually, when we asked for more (relevant) content, we got farming. So yeah, you can farm tomatoes. But once you build that mine, there's nothing else to do but copy it. More specifically, we've also asked for better ways to buy/transport/build things because there's no inventory or storage system. Every item has to be manually carried by hand, and besides the huge issue with lag when a truck is full of pipes or other cargo.... you still have to move 1 item at a time onto a truck, then drive it home, then unload 1 item at a time, place all the items in a lag pile, etc. Even the idea of having crates which hold 10+ copies of an item were ignored. Lame. There's also just little variety in what you produce. The whole idea of the game is to mine and process resources into stuff, but just making iron or gold bars feels like the most basic option possible. The stuff you can do in the first hour or 2 of the game, is the stuff you can do at the very end of the game with 1 exception. More than anything, it feels like there's a whole world of potential machines, crafting processes, ingredients, and produced products that isn't being tapped into. And because there's no goal, no endgame item/process/machine to work towards, all we have to play with/for is the production itself, which wouldn't be so bad if there was more to produce and more to manage. I bought it and later the dlc when it relased, hoping hydroneer would develop beyond what is, basically, a roblox tycoon game. Maybe this sounds harsh, but i've been around it for a couple years now and this is my honest opinion. It's not a bad game, just a simple one that's small, with little content, and a short gameplay loop. Maybe its perfect for some people, for me its a just a tease. TLDR: Soft recommend if on sale, or if you want a really simple and straight forward tycoon style game
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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.
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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.
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Great game for people who love mining, farming, building factories, automating, becoming rich and flinging NPCs all over the place with your trusty car.
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Online players
535
Developer
Foulball Hangover
Publisher
Foulball Hangover
Release
08 May 2020
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