This or Hydroneer ?

[Icarus]

Which one is better /worth more playing ? And even more important which one gets boring faster? .. I enjoy this type of games but i dont want to finish everything in 2-3 days of playing and then forget about it in my library

[JMH714]

I don't know Hydroneer.

Gold Rush the Game is more sandbox game. It can take longer to dig up 4 claims and it won't take 2 or 3 days to complete whole thing.

This game can be boring if you don't want to do over and over again and again.

For me, it's a relaxing game. Maybe you'll go for Hydroneer and get Gold Rush the Game later.

[SheepDogCO]

I bought Hydroneer first, minutes after it was available. Very disappointed. Lots of glitches. The game should still be in ALPHA, definitely not complete. I watched vids before the game was released and I saw the bugs with items launched into space with a minor toe kick, and the vehicle flipping for no reason at all and thought they'd have been fixed for the real release. NOPE!

Hydroneer is so much more of a grind than Gold Rush, with little to no reason for it. The "best" machine for harvesting gold is worthless for going deep, and the harvesters you can set up to go deep don't actually produce as much gold as just cleaning the ore in the bucket.

So, I bought Gold Rush a few days later. Now, Gold Rush has some similar problems, but I certainly wouldn't consider Gold Rush to be in ALPHA. Gold Rush is fairly polished. Having played both, I'd recommend Gold Rush over Hydroneer 1000 times over. As you know, Gold Rush is also a grind game, but there are so many more elements to it. Dozens of repair parts instead of just a generic wrench. Upgrades to consider, like when to hire and upgrade workers, when to spend money on a new parcels, leasing them vs buying, when to upgrade to the next tier, realizing extra equipment on a lease costs more money, etc. You also have electrics, water hoses, splitters, generators, pumps, trailers, etc, etc.

I'm not completely disappointed I spent a whoppin' $8 on Hydroneer, but it's going to sit in my library for some time. I might play it again after Star Citizen is released... in other words, never.

[Bart]

I would suggest if your younger than say 18 .. Hydroneer would be your choice.. but for adults this is the game.. yes it has little problems.. but they will get it fixed.

[Faun]

I bought Gold Rush around two weeks ago in sale as I was waiting for Hydroneer.

Hydroneer lacks content and balancing. It doesn't take much time to get enough money to buy everything there is. In my 7 hours of playtime I bought a second plot of land, set up some machinery but... for what? In 20-30 minutes you can buy anything. In 60 minutes of playtime there is no purpose to play the game, unless you want to build some big and complicated automation. But the automation doesn't work well because the physics of rocks and ores are terrible. Vehicles(all 2 of them) drive really bad, it doesn't feel good. Hydroneer always takes 100% GPU usage(after some patches 75% on low details) and does not run well, when there are lots of ores.

Gold Rush also has its problems. Its more of a simulation than Hydroneer and has a lot more content. I'm 65 hours into the game and still on the first plot. Well... Its very grindy, but when you buy a game about digging you get a game about digging. Gold Rush has a lot more vehicles(with better driving physics than Hydroneer(which is not hard to achieve)), better balancing and it feels more rewarding. Most importantly... You have progress! You start with a hog pan and do everything by hand, working your way up to use heavy machinery for digging and gold washing. It feels good to set up generators and pumps, connecting stuff with wires and hoses and see it working.

Both games have bugs. Both suffer from technical issues. The one man dev team of Hydroneer is working hard and the game will become better in 1, 2 or 3 years, but I would recommend Gold Rush.

[Officer Payne]

I “appreciate” the censorship and comments deleted for being honest about this product. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.