Subterrain: Mines of Titan is a humorous and retro-style focused survival game that seems to combine features from a variety of top games, including Fallout and Terraria.
The environment setting for Subterrain: Mines of Titan feels similar to Starfield as the player's main goal on the surface is to plunder a desolate mine on Saturn's moon. However, something goes wrong and your character suddenly awakes from their stasis pod.
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
(Photo : Pixellore Inc. / Screenshot taken from Steam)
They discover that the entire operation has been overrun by horrific monsters that evolve right before their eyes. Subterrain: Mines of Titan is a survival and RPG game that requires players to find materials, craft equipment, and weapons, build themselves a safe place to hide, and ultimately, survive.
The game's combat gameplay features turn-based mechanics where every action and movement advances time. At certain hours, the monsters that players fight will become more present and active, forcing them to carefully manage how the day is spent, according to PCGamesN.
Players will also have to scavenge and ration their food and water supplies and they can assign duties to other surviving miners as they try to create an ad-hoc settlement and society in a barren and dangerous world.
Subterrain: Mines of Titan has crunchy pixel-art visuals and gory, fleshy monsters with a heavy focus on resources and stats-driven battles. Players will navigate through the decaying and forsaken old corporate institutions as they try to figure out a way to survive.
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The game's developer, Pixellore, made Subterrain: Mines of Titan available on PC through Steam on Mar. 12, 2024. One of the core features of the game is managing the main character's thirst and hunger without exhaustion.
The battles test players' decision-making by making them choose whether to utilize narrow-range combat, wider attacks, or the use of nanomassers as powerful abilities. If they choose the wrong one, their odds of survival would most likely plummet, said GameNews24.
Investigating Titan's Fate
Players can craft a variety of vital items, weapons, or survival gear to help them have a better chance of surviving against the dangerous monsters. The need to save materials and careful use of medical supplies is crucial for navigating the dangerous world and uncovering Titan's fate.
On top of managing food and water supplies, players will also have to carefully manage oxygen and energy while exploring abandoned mines. With the passage of time, enemies get stronger and invaders will threaten your base's reactor.
The game also gives players the chance to talk to other residents and trade with various camp merchants to acquire needed resources. They also need to figure out problems that plague campers and help residents out.
On top of trying to survive and fight off against dangerous monsters, players are given the main task of figuring out what happened on Titan. In the game's lore, mining company TECC sent a large number of workers to harvest resources following a violent meteor collision on Saturn's moon.
This incident deposited a large amount of rare materials into Titan's icy surface. While the company's mission had a promising development, it ended abruptly when the colony that was sent out went silent. The player is a member of the second team that was tasked with investigating what happened, according to Epic Games.
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