Game:

SteamWorld Dig (2013)

Duration: 1:33:04

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Platformer with an emphasis on digging. I did this game on Vita when it was on PS+ many years ago before I had a PS4. Never ended up doing the PS4 version once I finally got one, until now.

This game's pretty straightforward. Dig your way to the bottom and find as much ores/orbs as possible to upgrade your character.

To 100% this, you must beat the game with a Master Prospector rating, which requires getting at least $20000 and 150 orbs in under 2 hours and 30 minutes, while not dying once (easily acquired by closing the game once you die). You must also do a sequence break, find all secrets and get all upgrades, which can be done after beating the game. This playthrough will do all of this before beating the game.

There's 3 sectors of the world, which have more expensive ores the deeper you go in. It's advised not to spend too much time in the first area, as the ores don't give much money compared to the other two areas. While most ore locations are randomized, there's a few special spots in caves that give more expensive ores, which should be used to get the early upgrades much quicker.

In the second area, you should be able to easily upgrade the drill to make digging for ores much quicker. You can opt to dig for ores here until the drill is unable to instantly break the ground, then proceed to the final area, but make sure to do the sequence break to destroy 2 generators before entering the final area.

The third area should give you the mineral detector, which eliminates any guesswork for finding ores/orbs. Once you get this, clean out all the ores/orbs in the area. You can go back to the 2nd area to get more ores in case you're short of $20000. If you're short of orbs, you can check the first area too. If you're able to buy all upgrades, you definitely have more than 150 orbs.

For the sequence break, you'll have to master corner jumping to reach a couple of hard-to-reach rooms much earlier than the normal game progression. These rooms have generators that you need to destroy to reach the game's only boss. There are also some really valuable ores to find that will give you a huge head start in resources and upgrades.

You can also buy teleporters to make cashing in ores easier, but they cost orbs, which are more limited than money. I'd recommend buying no more than 8, as you'll probably need to end up finding almost all the orbs in the world to get all the upgrades if you go any higher.

0:00 - Start
3:30 - Speed Boots Cave, Quick $200 early, Secret 1
7:30 - Steam Jump Cave
9:20 - Optional Cave 1
12:12 - Optional Cave 2
13:04 - Drill Cave, Secret 2
16:00 - Sequence Breaker Generator 1, Secret 3, easy $500

18:55 - Start Sector 2
22:48 - Dynamite Cave
26:12 - Optional Cave 3 (Acid)
32:03 - Optional Cave 4 (Mushrooms), Secret 4
33:45 - Steam Punch Cave, Secret 5
39:50 - Fall Dampener Cave, Secrets 6, 7, 8
41:35 - Sequence Breaker Generator 2 area, Secret 9

46:26 - Start Final Sector
51:36 - Optional Cave 5
53:45 - Mineral Detector Cave, Secrets 10, 11, 12
1:00:47 - Optional Cave 6
1:01:37 - Static Dash Cave, Secrets 13, 14, 15, 16
1:07:45 - Optional Cave 7, Secret 17
1:15:49 - Final Generator, Secret 18
1:19:23 - Cleanup for $20000, 150 Orbs, Max Upgrades
1:20:26 - Sector 2 Optional Cave Block Puzzle
1:20:53 - Cleanup for $20000, 150 Orbs, Max Upgrades
1:29:30 - Final Boss, Secret 19

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