does everything right and packs more QOL into the ultimate mining genre, this gets the simplest elements insanely well but doesn't have many of the features of its ancestors like radiation/lava suits, building, liquid deposits from Epic Mining, or wandering enemies. instead, this adds its own features like a gambling casino, an ore refiner that is just a time-gated value multiplier, an auto-miner, loot chests with temp. bonuses that speed up progression, a weird roguelike mode, and more stuff I haven't unlocked yet. definitely slated to be the best version of this genre if they try to balance the zone-out ore grind out more with interactable content, perhaps add more tool sub-types or wacky ways to mine (mining with giant physical boulder?) to try to keep the game fresh when prestiging, and more stuff to do in the mine than... well, mine.

good clean fun, if a bit monotonous