**USS Asteroid Paper Railgun: A Unique Delivery and Overview of Starminer Game**
Attention unidentified spacecraft, this is the USS Asteroid Paper Railgun. Please maintain your current heading and velocity. I am about to rotate 34 degrees and jettison a new early access space strategy game from my cargo hold. If my calculations are correct, the package should arrive in your airlock in precisely 14.7 seconds. If my calculations are incorrect – well, I’m not sure if Starminer simulates damage from loose storage modules, but it’s probably better avoided.
Commencing transfer! Contact in 10 seconds! 5 seconds! She’s in the pipe – transfer successful! Now, please watch this lengthy video explainer. It is a symphonic display of the many ways in which bundles of ore can travel from one vessel’s hold to another. All it’s missing is the Strauss.
[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4srTRsF9s4)
The work of Slovenian developers and former Paradox Arc collaborators CoolAndGoodGames, Starminer is a ponderously beautiful, physics-driven experience in which you clip together 150,000-ton drilling platforms in order to laser the bejazus out of the final frontier. While the modular ship design feels familiar, it is a visual feast. You have six degrees of freedom, which also allows for the possibility of colliding with rogue boulders. The reflections of nearby ship components in your solar panels add to the immersive experience.
A lot of love has gone into the logistics element, with players able to jettison their haul for traders to collect, perhaps to avoid damage from surrounding grumpy rocks while preserving their lovely reflective solar panels. Starminer is not just a resource gathering and trading sim; the more asteroids you gather and the mightier your mercenary fleet becomes, the more your heat signature will grow, leading to potential encounters with unspecified aliens.
Aliens, as always, are a threat to the hard work of terran operations. They seem oblivious to optimized station-to-station resourcing loops. Players might look forward to the ability to destroy ships by flinging cargo at them, potentially targeting alien motherships with barrels of ball bearings.
The early access version of Starminer will feature a tutorial, campaign mode, survival challenges, and a sandbox mode. The full version, expected in roughly a year, aims to include more units, construction options, a dynamic campaign, and improved mechanics based on player feedback.
For more information, visit [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1116050/Starminer/). This game may serve as a solid companion piece to the similarly themed Nebulous: Fleet Command, which is expected to receive a campaign mode soon. However, only time will tell if Starminer can hold its own against rival games like ΔV: Rings Of Saturn, celebrated for its balance of physics and realism that enhances the enjoyment of flight and resource gathering in space.
