Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op shooter with a deceptively simple approach that reveals a great deal of depth the more you play.
Though you will be fighting monsters in co-op alongside three other teammates, gameplay in Deep Rock Galactic is about more than just surviving an onslaught. You’ll be tasked with navigating your way through a cave by any means necessary to collect a certain amount of one or two minerals.The moment you drop into your procedurally generated cave is the moment Deep Rock Galactic’s free-form structure starts to take hold. Deep Rock Galactic’s greatest strength is that it allows players to essentially dictate the pace of the match. Instead of directing progression through checkpoints players must go through, or cut-scenes that trigger big events, the game leaves you to your own devices to figure out how to get the required amount of ore.
Straight from the get-go, Deep Rock piles on the atmosphere. Searching through caverns for your objective is a claustrophobic experience, enhanced by the game’s dynamic lighting system. Each player has their own headlamp and can also toss flares to light the way, but outcroppings and the aliens themselves also give off ambient light. Combined with the chunky, voxel-based terrain it’s a disorienting riot of shifting color and shape. It’s very easy to get yourself turned around.
At this early stage, Deep Rock Galactic is an innovative, tense horde shooter. But there just isn’t much to interact with outside its missions, and prolonging a dig just to collect a bit more gold and be rewarded with a bit more XP therefore feels like a hollow incentive at this stage. When the home base layer is more fleshed out, I’ll be interested to see what kind of progression and rewards will be dangled in front of me to encourage digging greedily and deep.
The devs also have plans for more cave “biomes,” more mission types, and have even hinted at more enemy genuses beyond the Glyphid insects we’ve seen so far. All of this would be welcome, as a game about exploring the dark depths is likely to lose some luster if there aren’t enough different experiences to uncover. Already, I’ve seen some pretty cool environments, including a large, vertical chamber with a gushing flame geyser. The more of that, the better.
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