Drill Drone

Nice concept and execution. The controls felt a little clunky and I would really like to have had controller support. I really love the music though.

Nice little game, the upgrading system and the items are definitely what made it stand out from a basic digging game.

Art and sound are ok, but you need both visual and audio feedback for the player, to make the game feel better.

Gameplay and upgrades were quite balanced, but sometimes you could get softlocked by the unbreakable blocks, and gameplay got boring after a couple hundred blocks of depth. Adding something like enemies and scaling the difficulty as you progress would probably fix that.

Really cool game. The graphics are okay and the music is nice, but some sound effects would be welcome. I could definitely see the cycle of drilling to get better upgrades to make drilling easier being pretty addictive. However, it needs to get harder as you progress deeper (maybe blocks take longer to drill or energy is more rare) because once I bought a couple of drill upgrades I could basically go forever. That is, until I got stopped by a row of unbreakable blocks. You should either work on the level generation so this can't happen or provide some way to destroy them.

I found the background music very catchy, and found myself descending further and further on my very first run until I also hit a setting of impassable obstacles.

Poured all my ~60 upgrade gems into the acid flask's range up, then had a blast playing the following run until I had to force myself to stop. I wish the difficulty would scale up, but this is definitely a very fun game and the upgrades add a somewhat lasting appeal. The rather simplistic aesthetics didn't get in the way for me, I felt a positive Win3.1/Win95-esque vibe that was even a little nostalgic. Good job!

On a design side, I feel like there's not really any incentive to make us use items at first. But I tried upgrading the acid and it's really fun just seeing it eat half the screen :D

I really enjoyed this game on my first run, but unfortunately after the first round of upgrades the game becomes rather easy. In my opinion the bombs are pretty overpowered once they've been upgraded, their blast radius gets absurdly big even after the first round of upgrades. I also unfortunately ran into a massive wall of unbreakable blocks that stopped my run in its tracks :( https://puu.sh/vlZFz/c227d8e9fb.png