Dome Keeper - Space Mining Space Horror Base Defense

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're gonna be checking out domekeeper now i know what you're saying this looks kind of familiar normally i try to space out my coverage a little bit better but what happened with this game was kind of unpredictable so previously this game was called dome romantic and shortly after i uploaded my last video the game was picked up by a major publisher and then there was a complete and total overhaul of the graphics and the presentational style and the content that was available inside the demo and so i ended up in this awkward situation where my coverage from like four to five months ago was actually out of date a couple weeks after i uploaded the video and i've been kind of patiently watching and waiting trying to decide whether or not i wanted to update that coverage and today i've decided it is the time because a very very slow week with the steam festival nobody really wants to release a game right now so for the next couple weeks there's probably going to be a lot of checkup videos just due to the fact that nobody wants to release into the steam festival because the steam festival severely severely limits your visibility as of right now the shop has been kind of reduced in functionality to be very very simple and sell games at a low price and so lots of checkups but dome keeper this is a game where you are holding off alien monsters while mining underneath the ground and i think the game is a lot of fun the core gameplay hasn't changed too much it's just that there's been a lot of additions and it looks completely different inside such a small time window that it's hard to believe so we're going to recover it here today so that people can check out the video they can get the updated info the game is available down below in the description you can get the demo the demo actually has quite a bit of gameplay inside of it just in case you were looking for something that you can kind of chew on slowly for free you'll also find links to my twitch stream on my discord down there in case you wanted to hang out live let's go ahead and start a new game uh we are gonna keep everything on the defaults however there are unlockable things that you can start off with now that i don't think were in the last time i played the game uh there are also alternate character types that aren't available in the demo but we can infer a little bit from the way that they look what they might be we've got some kind of guy throwing like a molotov cocktail being like down with the dome government over here and then we've got some kind of alien with the tail that i can virtually guarantee was going to be my main character because i love alien characters i just can't help it and then inside of here we've got gadgets that you start out with inside of here there's going to be different weapons although some of them are not available as of right now and then of course there's going to be alternate gameplay modes as well for right now we're doing a relic hunt so let's go ahead and proceed we'll leave it on the default difficulty and we will start our run off one thing i really really like about this game is that the color palette of the map that you play on it changes every single time that you play which is pretty cool my last run was like black and purple and blue this one is kind of like green and red what i'm going to do is i'm just going to kind of mine down i've actually rebound all of the controls in this game because i did not like the default controls you guys i'm not good at moving my character with my right hand and everything was kind of on the arrow keys and on my right hand so anyways wasn't really something that was easy to deal with so i rebound everything the game does have fully rekey bindable keys which is great i don't know when attacks are gonna happen because we don't have that upgrade yet so i'm just kinda gonna have to listen for whenever something decides to hit me it looks like we've actually got some water right there and it looks like we've got some ore up here i'm gonna go ahead and grab those and then we'll take them back over here and in fact i think we're probably about to get attacked pretty soon by my own mental timing and so i'm gonna jump on the defense gun real fast through this little terminal right here and then i'm gonna go into battle mode and we're just gonna chill for a second there it is there's the attack i knew it was coming i just didn't know when it was coming you've got to unlock the sensor all right so there's the one monster that we've killed the first couple waves are going to be really really easy they're not really going to provide that much of a challenge but trust me the game escalates rapidly let's get a little bit more ore from over here i don't know if i can actually drag four of them but i'm gonna try every single ore that you have tethered behind you makes you move a little bit slower which really makes you consider with regards to like your time allotment and how long it's gonna take you to get things done whether or not it's worth it but i'll drop these guys off right here there we go and we're gonna go to our upgrades menu we have seven ore right now i'd like to unlock the radar that tells me when the enemy's coming i'd like to unlock the health bar so that i know how good my dome is and then we have six right now i would suggest that with the six that we have i don't think we're going to need to upgrade our guns this early there is a tree inside of our base what our relic does it grows a fruit you can see it over there on the left if we eat the fruit we fly faster we mine faster and we can carry more stuff for like one minute or two minutes or something like that i think what i'm gonna do is i think i'm gonna up my top speed i'm gonna give us a little bit of the old zippities so that we move a little bit faster so that i can get into these areas a little bit quicker i find that a lot of my time in this game is dedicated just to like transit and i'd like to get that down a little bit we'll drop these guys off inside the grinder right there so we've got a few more resources we're about to get attacked again but i think i've got like a second to dig a little bit further all right we've dug a little bit further i said a little bit i didn't lie that was definitely like the definition of a little bit further inside of this menu we have enough but not enough to do what i want to do maybe we'll increase our drill strength or our carrying strength might be nice as well so that we get slowed down a little bit less let's go with the carrying strength for right now but our next couple upgrades are definitely going to want to be to the weapons otherwise we're going to have problems a few more enemies coming in right there we'll go ahead and laser them up oh it was just one enemy that time nice okay i thought we're gonna have like two or three on that second wave i feel positive about this situation i'd like to dig right here oh hey mother lode all right i think i can drag all six of these out now that we've upgraded our carrying weight i normally start with movement speed and carrying weight just because it seems to be the best bang for your buck in terms of just like conserving your time because if you really think about what this game is this game is not a measure of skill now this game is a measure of how good you are at kind of managing your time and i guess there's probably a little bit of an argument there that managing your time in and of itself is a skill and judging from the way that my personal life is arranged maybe i should take that into account but no for now i'm not going to count it as a skill if things continue to get worse then i will count it as a skill but we don't change things around here unless we absolutely have to now we got some cobalt right here that's nice cobalt is used to repair our dome and also to get permanent upgrades to the amount of hp our base has and the amount of i think there's something else we can do with it but i can't remember where the enemy's at oh they're coming in from the sky brethren okay we'll just laser you real quick that guy got away with it unfortunately we're being pelted right now i'm always pelted and i like my pelt i would prefer that my pelt not be bothered but unfortunately the enemy has an issue with my pelted nature let's go and swing on down here to the south there's probably a few more resources around that we could get our hands on and it does look like we're getting into the rougher thickie bricks right here it's a little bit of a letdown would rather not have that be the case but such as life we'll go ahead and create a connecting tunnel up here i'm not being crazy efficient at the moment but that seems to be kind of the way that it's gonna go i usually try to make it so that i'm revealing two corridors at a time if i can help it man we've got an entire run right now with no resources not great that'll help yep there's the good stuff right there we found it i'm gonna drag this six back up i don't know if i'm gonna make it in a timely manner we may end up defending before i can spend my upgrades yeah we're gonna be kind of like uh globes to the globes to the glass here don't like it would rather it not be going like this but let me see what upgrades i've got so we've got 11 right here let's go ahead and upgrade the power of our laser and then the next one will upgrade the speed of our laser so we can move it around a little bit more rapidly this game has kind of a push pull system in play where basically what happens is the stronger your laser is the slower it moves and so you kind of got to take both upgrades if you're going to take them i'd like to hollow this out a little bit a cobalt nice and then we'll just take this down from here what you got for me oh we've got a relic nice this is one of the things that they added to the game i don't think we can get the relic until we upgrade our drill rip feels bad no money no prizes right there only got the one we'll dig this off to the right and what you got for me here baby i really think that like the simplicity of this game is kind of the secret of why it's so satisfying really all you do is move around and dig and mine and it goes back to those old gem mining games that used to exist on like ms-dos i had a couple of them on shareware when i was a kid yeah that was a really really unproductive day of harvesting unfortunately i should probably eat my fruit too what can i do here i got what i needed drill strength and then we'll go movement speed on the gun i guess and then we'll go ahead and get the gun yeah it's moving nice and smooth now we've got like a nice slidiness to our firearm that's working out pretty good wipe that guy out i had a feeling he was gonna show up on this side we can shoot down the bullet should we desire to do so he's dead let's get out of here i am gonna eat my fruit which is gonna make me a lot faster and dig a lot better so i'm hoping we have like a solid day here what you got for me come on a little bit of water right there we don't really intensely need the water right now there we go that's what i was looking for unfortunately it's all falling down to the bottom right now i'm gonna go ahead and reconnect this tunnel on this side so that we can get around a little bit faster perfect all right let's drag all the ore up here i think we're like flatly out of ore right now though and i don't like being flatly out of ore if i can get a little bit of work done to the relic down here before we head back i think i could appreciate that i think we're gonna have time to get like two of these tiles removed but if we fully excavate the whole thing like tomorrow we're gonna get ourselves a relic that's gonna give us a bit of a passive boon in order to make our life a little bit easier and give us like a better fighting chance against the bad guys let's go battle mode so far we're doing okay but if we get another flyer wave i think we're going to struggle a bit he's dead oh boy not great i do love the animation of the little bad guys like i love the way they sort of like throw themselves at the dome like your existence is just the most offensive affront to alien kind that they've ever seen such that they're using their bodies as bludgeons to kind of go after you like i really dig that vibe it makes them seem very threatening and very hostile let's go ahead and cut off over here to the left if we don't find anything too soon i'll probably hey we got something we got something oh not just something we got a lot yeah i'll take that sure grab all that stuff let's drag it on back up to the surface oh no our block has gotten stuck there we go well we were making good time until the block got stuck now we're not now we're not making good time anymore now we've basically wasted a day because we tried to carry too much behind us ah risk reward my old friend you've come around to bag on me again i don't have enough to like fully i can i can fix the stuff over here and so our dome is looking a little bit better if there's one part of the body you want to be looking pretty good it's your dome you know that's what people see first i think i have nine i could get better drill strength and we are kind of getting down to the level where i think the drill strength might be justified then again we could also go with more speed on our gun let's get more speed on the gun like i feel like we're closer to getting ourselves in trouble with the aliens than we are everything i don't think i'm gonna make it i was gonna try to sneak down there and drill out that relic but unfortunately the game didn't want to go along with it it's being a gigantic meanie face to me right now i'm gonna put ourselves in battle mode real quick oh yeah it's shifting around now and it's all about the subtle details with this game like the background changing get him out of the air basically i want to clear aside so that i don't have to come back anytime soon stick your head up bro do it yeah i was gonna say you're afraid huh yeah you were feeling all kinds of gangster and stuff up until like a second ago uh we are going to want to track down some cobalt before too long we are out of repair materials alas a lack i've rendered my clothes and rubbed myself in coal all right give me the goodies what you got for me inside the giant bay door all right what are you i don't know what you are but you're very very heavy and you're giant and you look awesome so i want you i'm bringing you back to base with me what did we get pick a gadget so we can get blast mining produces blast charges that destroy surrounding blocks and use water install a laser that stuns small monsters automatically yeah definitely do that one i think that one is the one that is jumping out at me as being i need supplementary assistance when it comes to dealing with these aliens man they're being kind of nasty about this whole experience i definitely don't feel welcome i do think drill upgrade is probably next up on the block for things that we want to take i feel like we're at a depth right now where i'm really slowing down all right so we've got those over there and how we looking on upgrades so i only have three metal right now three metal and two water unfortunate i need the eight drill upgrade and i need it real real bad all right what are we looking at here he's going over there oh yeah there's a bunch of little critters over here huh stun laser you are adequate and i love you honestly we survived that one okay given the level of like attrition that we were facing i'm gonna grab my fruit real fast and we will see what we can find down here it looks like the stone is maybe a little bit thinner on this side so we may drill a bit faster to get after the things that we want over here kind of unfortunate hey there's cobalt grab what i can hear since i think we're kind of at a depth at this point where i'm really only gonna get like one thing done every time i make the run back out oh no dude my super drill wore off weak okay i'll take the water with me since i'm in the neighborhood but i am not happy about our acquisitions on this rotation yup just chew them things up let's go ahead and wake up the stun stun laser are you here stun laser i cannot tell you how much i need you right now stun lasers going back this way get the birds and we've got some kind of giant omega critter over here i'm gonna go ahead and light them up real fast i think i remember seeing these from the previous demo like these giant behemoths yeah he's pretty tanky wow just in time all right i don't even know where to dig at this point like we can't really reasonably get through a lot of these levels over here hey that's the stuff that i need okay yeah it's gonna be a little bit too slow to get it all back however since i usually only have time for one run anyways i'm not that worried about it i just want to make sure everything pulls through i may have time to sprint down here and grab those last two that are sitting there but yeah this is for the drill upgrade because we're really really starting to hit some attrition uh when it comes to drilling down into the earth there we go get that on in there as far as upgrades go we've got what looks like 10 very nice let's get that drill upgrade so that we can go a little bit faster i think i'll probably go for gun damage next at least with my medals because that seems like the best place to appropriately place my goodies let's grab those real fast because we don't really have much else going on throw those up in there maybe clear a little bit of this out so that it just looks a little bit better didn't really have time to do much else and then we'll go into battle mode where's the enemy at oh they're in the sky huh it's kind of unfortunate but two of them are dead so that's nice oh this is gonna be lots and lots of birds okay birds are down we did take a little bit of damage out here which i'd rather not take but at least we got our drill upgrade because that was the one main stop gap that i felt like was keeping us from advancing properly hey there we go now we're mashing through it give me some of that cobalt kind of drill around over here and just sort of see what happens nothing so far oh come on don't skunk me there we go that's what i needed uh go ahead and actually i'll haul it back yeah i'm gonna haul it back but i don't know if we're gonna get much else done today in fact we may not even make it with this load on us definitely a bit of slow going i may have overplayed my hand i may be murdered by greed here uh yes greed i think accurately is probably going to be the thing that murders me get him off the dome oh we got a big boy too oh no okay yeah i have chosen poorly and unwisely and now my life is a mess oh no dude he's coming mega chunk he's coming for your doom please die please die please die okay yeah i'm gonna need to spend some of that cobalt we've got rattling around on repairs we've still got two cobalt left so we're not in too bad of shape i could upgrade the total hp of the dome but i really really want the damage upgrade i i think we need it oh yeah let me get my super speed fruit too maybe not the best use of my time making this extra tunnel over here may have been a mistake that's a lot of metal like we've got more metal than karang man we've got metal out here we've got metal like whacking come on put it in the slot there she blows all right so now we have the necessary stuff to go in on that upgrade right there which is just fantastical i will probably focus some of my effort the stun laser cools down faster and shoots oh there's like individual relic upgrades too okay the stun laser now deals damage yeah give me the damage give me the damage anything supplementary here i think really really helps like three damage is not a lot but three damage is something oh my laser got bigger sir please stay away from my dome i'll probably go after the flying ones there we go let him do his thing over on the other side hopefully we don't lose too much hp here it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be we pulled through we took like a little 10 damage right there but 10 damage on a wave like that where it's just rapid firing weak guys at you can definitely be a tiny bit stressful we do have some loot left down here there's some water i'll bring back the water if i don't find anything else but water is kind of low priority right now i just need medals well doesn't look good we only got one water from right there too there's some metal we will sit that right where it lies and we will come and get it tomorrow i've still got enough cobalt for a few more repairs i'm trying to wipe out some of these blocks that are in the way each time i make the run back the base so that i've got like free movement but i don't want to like dedicate an entire day to clearing out corridors that just seems like a like a over-involvement of myself in the management block process all right so they're coming in from over here kill a couple of you guys wipe out some of the little dudes please don't let him get a shot off thank you stun laser you are an absolute stallion and you basically saved me on that run we're only taking 10 damage now that we've got that extra laser on in there i do think that that randomization is going to provide a lot of replayability like i think like how well this game is gonna do is gonna be really really heavily reliant on just how many relics they can get on into the game that have interesting synergies with one another i played a couple of games before this in prep for the video and i never got anything as interesting as the stun laser i got one thing that like would give me water every now and again and then that was pretty much like the the most of it they were like little buildings that would effectively funnel you a few more resources for your trouble okay so with 10 right there what can i do we get a double laser kind of hurts my damage though i actually kind of like the idea of buffing up the damage on the stun laser i don't really want anything off the tree i really actually kind of feel like saving up for the 20 for the level 3 laser is the best plan because our drilling is going reasonably well like i don't think the drilling has really been the issue here like the drilling feels like with level three upgrade that we're doing okay back to base i suppose it looks like there's another invasion coming on and didn't manage to find anything good on that last dive it was just kind of me walking around smacking dirt oh we got one of the little baby alien hordes i love that little poop pop noise that may that's what i call though they call those poop pops like whenever a game uses that sound effect i call them the poop pops hopefully the stun laser can handle all those little guys on that side because i need to put like all of my might on this dude oh we're killing him before he's even getting here now nice dude it's all coming together apparently when it comes to the keeping of domes i possess a particularly natural talent maybe i'm overthinking it but i'm feeling pretty good right now about my chances against the aliens say what you will we're stacking up quite the body count right now little bit more metal five metal right there i think we can reasonably carry like seven without getting slowed down to just a ludicrous extent so i'll get the rest of that metal later that the two metal nodes right there though gets us our level three laser upgrade so that's gonna sort of be paramount if we wanna survive this thing just a little bit more damage on the old chunk monster laser and i think we'll really be gibletting aliens at a capacity that i feel like is suitable for our badassery because you want those two things to be sort of commensurate right you want you want your capability and you want your badassery to kind of be a raid at the same level you don't want you don't want one to outrun the other you know what i mean because then you end up being incompetent or in the alternate case you know you end up being competent but you can't really defend yourself little baby laser what are you doing okay baby laser i'm gonna oh my god there's so many flyers oh i am not enjoying this the flyers attack a little bit okay yeah we took a we took a little bit of a licking right there i still have not found any reasonable strategy for dealing with flying aliens that's like my one blind spot in my strategy is if they're all like land bound and you can kind of switch swish cut them in half with the laser usually okay but when they fly like that that's when things get complicated i'll take you with me why not i'll drill down this way just so i'm doing some kind of manual labor today well maybe we do need a new drill upgrade kind of hard to say from where i'm sitting i'm gonna kind of pick a direction and go [Music] oh another relic very nice okay well at least we know where that's at now almost sort of feels like we've hit bedrock here maybe not bedrock but we definitely i definitely feel like we're getting lower who would have known that aliens would be such amazing resistance actors for the mining industry all you want to do is strip down one planet for parts and the aliens get all bent out of shape about it ain't that always the way that it seems to go that's my last cobalt so we may be sol here i'm one metal short off my level three laser i hate it i hate it i hate everything about it because i got a bad feeling about this wave that last one did not go well for me i walked away from it bloodied and bruised there are cracks in my glass house right now and i have thrown zero stones a little bit worried we might not walk this one off oh he got a bullet off i was trying to get him stun locked before he launched the bullet where's this guy at we have survived one more day sometimes that's all you can ask for i guess i kind of want to go get that relic since we're going to die anyways i want to see what other relics are available and like expand my knowledge of the game there is agua over here although water is not gonna save me let's get in here maybe maybe it'll be some kind of mod that makes me into just like an alien stomping demigod i can't really tell what it is from the microchip picture but hopefully it's awesome let's get it back to camp what is it let's find out uh we've got a lift it automatically moves mind resources into the dome oh that would have been so good to find bro that such a massive infrastructure boost lets you teleport deep into the mine after you upgrade it you can also teleport yourself or resources back i like the idea of the lift how far does that go down does it just extend oh dude that's so sick i love it my name is splatter cat this is dome keeper previously dome romantic doing a follow-up video like four months after i already did a video usually not inside my wheelhouse but this one has changed so much in the last four months and has gone through so many big shifts in functionality that oh my god okay that was the worst i hated it i believe there is a a solid chance of death happening here i mean if he hits us one more time we die oh we lived we lived i will see you all later thank you for the luxury of your attention that's all i've got for you today definitely check out the demo definitely play it for yourself this is a game that i think really really masters sort of simplicity and yet like simplicity ease of play fun like it's got all of those things coming through in just mounds it's not a game that takes a tremendous amount of brain power but at the same time it's one of those games that like playing it is weirdly satisfying and i'm very excited for the final release take care everybody it's time for me to go

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Id: R0kD2-GuK4U

Length: 32min 31sec (1951 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 01 2022