Mining and base-building sandbox Hydroneer has a sprawling new growth of volcanos and glaciers

Launched in 2020, crafting, base-building, and mining sandbox Hydroneer has been an indie success story that offered upwards of 500,000 copies as of 2022. Now it has a full growth, Journey to Volcalidus, that dumps an enormous new atmosphere to mine and revenue from: The island of Volcalidus, which is “over 6 occasions the scale of the unique island” and comes full with a city to rebuild.

The growth additionally has an enormous new crane truck, a slew of recent deep-underground sources to mine, and a bunch of lava-powered equipment that harnesses the island’s volcano to get work executed a bit simpler. There are additionally new techniques round augmenting your instruments and machines for further impact whereas crafting them.

The growth comes alongside an enormous patch of free high quality of life updates and fixes for anybody who owns Hydroneer. The largest characteristic there may be constructing snapping and a lighting rework, however upgrades to how effectively automobiles deal with and a bunch of efficiency optimizations do not go amiss.

Hydroneer first acquired PC Gamer’s consideration again in 2020 due to one questionable innovation: It has no stock system. That turned out to be nice within the eyes of gamers, and since then hydroneer has gone on to large success and a fairly polished fashionable state, getting energy and logic techniques in addition to native multiplayer and automobiles in an enormous 2.0 replace again in 2022.

You’ll find Hydroneer on Steam alongside growth Journey to Volcalidus. Hydroneer is presently 50% off—$7.50—till April 12.