Steamworld Dig 2 is a gentle jewel

I ve got a hookshot. Have you got a hookshot? I bet you don t. I bet you ve just got hands. Borrrring. Despite Steamworld Dig earning John s admiration (so much so that he also used the comedy word aplomb when describing it) I had never played it. But I m glad to have picked up its sequel, Steamworld Dig 2 [official site], in which a friendly robot called Dorothy goes looking for her uncle Rusty, the hero of the first game, in the deep mines beneath a western-style town. To get ever-deeper she has to dig, fight insects, plant bombs, and most importantly, hookshooooot.

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