Deep rock galactic is a game that sets you as one of 4 Drawf miners in a space rig.
Your job is to go into a planet and mine resources for the company you work for, as well as some other objectives they task you to do.
The game can be played as a single player but it really shines as a 4 man co op.
You can pick one of 4 classes and each has their own abilities and purposes in the game, as well as strenghts and weaknesses.
If i was to compare these classes to Team Forress 2, then you basically know most of them already: Scout, Gunner (heavy), Engineer, and Driller (a mash up of Demoman and Pyro)
As well as mining resources, you get to kill some alien bugs beneath the planet's surface.

The game starts in the space rig which acts as your home base, from there you can pick your assignment and do the missions they tell you, or just do random missions if you prefer.
You can choose to host a game and let other players join you, or hop into any existing gameplay that others host.
When you finish a mission, you level up your character's level as well as your total level and unlock some perks to implement on your character, as well as weapon upgrades.
The host can pick and choose the mission's difficulty without any pressure by the game itself to force the player to go into higher difficulties. Difficulties effect the xp and money you get from a mission, while directly correlate to how brutal the game gets in terms of enemy difficulty. There are currently 7 mission types in the game, each has a unique objective to complete.

The game is very refined overall and does get updates very often, has a solid community back from its alpha and beta stages, and new supportive and friendly players are finding
their ways into the game every day.

Overall anecdotes:

* Music is great and mildly resembles old school sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and other ones from the 80's.

* Performance is pretty good. The game runs with Unreal Engine 4 and i get about 100 fps at highest settings with AMD Rx 5700xt at 1440p + Ryzen 5 2600x. The game seems quite optimized with no frame drops.

* Gameplay and loading times are very fluid. You can launch the game and reach the playing session within 15 seconds if you run an SSD, You can start any game mode with solo mode or 2-4 players very quickly, and the game balances its difficulty relative to how many players are in the server, so if people are leaving or joining in mid game, it wont effect the gameplay too much. There arent really mission types that must have a certain class (thats a bit debatable i know, but with proper skill, any class can do anything on its own).

* The players you will meet in game are generally friendly as the game doesnt put much pressure on you to succeed, so there are always many veterans who will be glad to teach the new playerbase how the game works.

* The game runs on a peer-to-peer network, just like with the Borderlands franchise, which means that if you host a game, you get 0 lag, as there arent any dedicated servers. This is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on where you live in the world.

*If i was to nitpick one particular problem in Deep Rock Galactic is that its endgame state is quite lacking. You dont seem to get much after promoting your first character, which takes 10-30 hours of gameplay. The game itself lasts for as long as you'd like, but the sense of accomplishment comes too soon in my opinion.

To sum it up, this is easily one of the best games i've played for a while, as it serves a good change from TF2 MVM to kill time. I cant stop recommending this to others!

Deep rock galactic is a game that sets you as one of 4 Drawf miners in a space rig. Your job is to go into a planet and mine resources for the company you work for, as well as some other objectives they task you to do. The game can be played as a single player but it really shines as a 4 man co op. You can pick one of 4 classes and each has their own abilities and purposes in the game, as well as strenghts and weaknesses. If i was to compare these classes to Team Forress 2, then you basically know most of them already: Scout, Gunner (heavy), Engineer, and Driller (a mash up of Demoman and Pyro) As well as mining resources, you get to kill some alien bugs beneath the planet's surface. The game starts in the space rig which acts as your home base, from there you can pick your assignment and do the missions they tell you, or just do random missions if you prefer. You can choose to host a game and let other players join you, or hop into any existing gameplay that others host. When you finish a mission, you level up your character's level as well as your total level and unlock some perks to implement on your character, as well as weapon upgrades. The host can pick and choose the mission's difficulty without any pressure by the game itself to force the player to go into higher difficulties. Difficulties effect the xp and money you get from a mission, while directly correlate to how brutal the game gets in terms of enemy difficulty. There are currently 7 mission types in the game, each has a unique objective to complete. The game is very refined overall and does get updates very often, has a solid community back from its alpha and beta stages, and new supportive and friendly players are finding their ways into the game every day. Overall anecdotes: * Music is great and mildly resembles old school sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and other ones from the 80's. * Performance is pretty good. The game runs with Unreal Engine 4 and i get about 100 fps at highest settings with AMD Rx 5700xt at 1440p + Ryzen 5 2600x. The game seems quite optimized with no frame drops. * Gameplay and loading times are very fluid. You can launch the game and reach the playing session within 15 seconds if you run an SSD, You can start any game mode with solo mode or 2-4 players very quickly, and the game balances its difficulty relative to how many players are in the server, so if people are leaving or joining in mid game, it wont effect the gameplay too much. There arent really mission types that must have a certain class (thats a bit debatable i know, but with proper skill, any class can do anything on its own). * The players you will meet in game are generally friendly as the game doesnt put much pressure on you to succeed, so there are always many veterans who will be glad to teach the new playerbase how the game works. * The game runs on a peer-to-peer network, just like with the Borderlands franchise, which means that if you host a game, you get 0 lag, as there arent any dedicated servers. This is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on where you live in the world. *If i was to nitpick one particular problem in Deep Rock Galactic is that its endgame state is quite lacking. You dont seem to get much after promoting your first character, which takes 10-30 hours of gameplay. The game itself lasts for as long as you'd like, but the sense of accomplishment comes too soon in my opinion. To sum it up, this is easily one of the best games i've played for a while, as it serves a good change from TF2 MVM to kill time. I cant stop recommending this to others!