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Solar System Mining is now available on itch.io.

A topic by Thornido created 77 days ago Views: 156 Replies: 5
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Solar System Mining is a space-themed incremental game where every celestial body becomes its own production puzzle. Start on Earth, unlock planets and moons, improve your tools, deploy auto-miners, and push deeper through the tech tree as your small mining operation grows into a network of automated extraction hubs.

What begins as simple hands-on mining gradually opens into system-wide logistics, prestige progression, late-game infrastructure, and long-term expansion beyond the Solar System.

The game is still in active development, so feedback on pacing, balance, progression, and overall feel is very welcome.

Play here: https://thornido.itch.io/solar-system-mining


played through it, got through all the systems, then prestiged bought some stuff, decided to cut it there. positives: this game is very fun and not too hard to understand. i like all the systems like dyson or megastructures. ill give some problems i have. 1. after the first system, you can kinda just just mine iron, buy all the materials you need, go to the sun of the system, and escape. 2. its also just very easy to buy all upgrades imediatly since iron is very easily obtainable and the other materials you can just mine in 20 seconds 3. theres no tutorial, i hope thats planned to be added seeing as i didnt know what dyson and megastructures did until i beat the game. for the rest. i do really like this game

Thanks for playing the whole thing! Going through every system and prestiging is super helpful for me, so I really appreciate you writing all this. And I'm happy you had fun and liked the Dyson Sphere and megastructures.

Your three points are all fair. Good news: I'm already fixing them.

1. Just mining iron and rushing the sun. You're right, this is the biggest problem. In the next update, iron is not the main currency anymore. Every system now has its own currency. And the escape mineral only comes from that system's star. So you can't save it up early or rush the sun. You have to unlock the last body now.

2. Everything is too cheap to buy. Agreed. Right now there's no real scarcity. A big balance pass on prices and how fast you get materials is next on my list. I also hid the market for now, because turning everything into iron made this worse. I want you to actually choose what to buy.

3. No tutorial. Yeah, my bad. A tutorial is planned. It will explain things like the Dyson Sphere and megastructures early, so you know what they do before the end — not after you beat the game.

Thanks again, this really helps. So glad you enjoyed it. More coming!

no problem man, fun game you are making

Not Bad

Thanks!