Launched in 2020, crafting, base-building, and mining sandbox Hydroneer has been an indie success story that offered upwards of 500,000 copies as of 2022. Now it has a full enlargement, Journey to Volcalidus, that dumps an enormous new atmosphere to mine and revenue from: The island of Volcalidus, which is “over 6 instances the scale of the unique island” and comes full with a city to rebuild.
The enlargement additionally has an enormous new crane truck, a slew of recent deep-underground sources to mine, and a bunch of lava-powered equipment that harnesses the island’s volcano to get work finished a bit simpler. There are additionally new programs round augmenting your instruments and machines for further impact whereas crafting them.
The enlargement comes alongside a giant patch of free high quality of life updates and fixes for anybody who owns Hydroneer. The most important characteristic there’s constructing snapping and a lighting rework, however upgrades to how properly automobiles deal with and a bunch of efficiency optimizations do not go amiss.
Hydroneer first received PC Gamer’s consideration again in 2020 due to one questionable innovation: It has no stock system. That turned out to be nice within the eyes of gamers, and since then hydroneer has gone on to large success and a reasonably polished trendy state, getting energy and logic programs in addition to native multiplayer and automobiles in a giant 2.0 replace again in 2022.
You will discover Hydroneer on Steam alongside enlargement Journey to Volcalidus. Hydroneer is at the moment 50% off—$7.50—till April 12.