Deep Rock Galactic Reviews

This game is currently in the Humble Choice for July 2022, this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before August 2nd, 2022, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.

Mining, I mean what else are dwarves going to do.

Deep Rock Galactic is not new to me, I’ve already spent over 30 hours on this game. This is an excellent game, and I’m glad to see it in the bundle. In it, you can play solo, with friends, or with random people, but either way, players will tackle one of seven different types of missions in various locations and with various dangers and sizes. There’s enough variety that players will have reasons to come back.

There’s also a very solid progression system and a great design to the game. The developers have continually added to the title to expand it, and include even more content over the four years since this has been released, and don’t seem to be slowing down. While you will be familiar with the mission types, each time you enter the level you will tackle a new area, which will give you a unique experience. This is also a game that’s “Better with Friends”, a topic I’ve tackled before about this game.

Pick this up if you want to go mining or have a solid group of friends you want to play with. You can instead play this solo, or with random players as well, and it’s almost as good. I will say this is one of the best gaming communities no matter if you are on their subreddit, Discord, or just meeting random players. The community is extremely welcoming, friendly, and willing to get a green beard up and running. Rock and Stone Brothers.


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Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op FPS game which centers around traversal and mining. You play as a dwarf – or more specifically, one of four classes of dwarf, digging your way through various missions while killing man-sized alien bugs with guns. While you are playing as dwarves, this is very much a “sci fi shooter” – not that there’s a lot of science fiction here, but the aesthetic is all a bit futuristic (though not tremendously so).

Each of the classes has some mixture of guns specific to that class plus traversal or exploration or platforming abilities. Some can create platforms; others are faster at digging; still others are able to create zip-lines or shoot grappling hooks to get up to higher areas.

All of them can launch flares, to light up the underground areas they’re exploring, as well as throw grenades.

Sadly, while the game’s core is all okay, it’s never really great. The whole game feels just a little bit janky, with weird physics bugs sometimes slinging your character around long distances.

But the main issue is repetition. The core of the game is going on a mission, completing some mission objectives, then running back to your pod to launch back into space. All of them have very similar structure, and while the particular objectives might differ, you are doing the same thing all the time, and fighting pretty much the same enemies.

On top of this, this is one of those dreaded “FPS platformer” games, where you run into the problem where you can’t see your own feet, so it is easy to end up falling off of ledges while fighting, which can easily lead to your doom.

The game’s lack of doing anything really excellent combined with the repetition made me quickly bore of it; I tried it for a few hours, but I never really had all that much fun.

And if you aren’t having fun, what’s the point?