Preview: Miasma Caves (Steam Early Access)

Miasma Caves is a pacifist roguelike game where you play as Lesath, a treasure hunter looking to appraise relics and revitalize her village in a procedurally generated cave system against the environment itself.

Cons:

  • Controller support.
  • PlayStation 1 looking graphics.
  • 5 save slots.
  • 1356MB download size.
  • First and third person views.
  • Simple gameplay loop-find treasure and sell it.
  • Can dig out walls and floors.
  • Drag and drop inventory.
  • Minimap.
  • Overworld where you can sell items and chat with NPC.
  • Make money and buy new items/tools like treasure trackers and ropes.
  • Randomly generated cave systems.

Cons:

  • Only resolution and windowed graphics option.
  • The controller doesn’t work for everything.
  • No tutorials.
  • Long loading times.
  • One song on loop.
  • Screen tearing is frequent.
  • Slow pace.
  • A lot of game crashes.
  • Feels flat and uneventful.
  • Cave system is bland.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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