This game is a a gem amongst a sea of just down right boring or predatory garbage and I'll list why in just three reasons.

1. The core gameplay loop is fun: In some games you'll get to that one point where the grind becomes so great, or the loop becomes repetitive that you simply cannot be bothered to even keep going. With DRG I find myself always wanting to come back for more despite the missions all being realtivly the same, even when playing solo this game manages to keep me engaged. Another plus is that the "grind" for new weapons or upgrades is pretty straight forward and can be easy to accomplish. This also applies to the end game, giving us just that little bit more to keep on going and work for even more.

And that's not to mention that every action I do is like a dopamine factory.

2. The game encourages you to play with other and explore their world in a good way: starting with the first bit, DRG's difficulty always tends to be incredibly fair when you know what your dealing with, the hazard levels are straight forward with what kind of mission you want to experience, and of course for higher hazard levels it tends be more prudent to have more dwarves. (Side note but the community surrounding this game seems to be incredible, I have yet to go into a game with randoms and find a single high level player that acted like they were gods gift to the game, that or i'm just lucky.)

As for exploration, especially once you get a promotion, your rewarded more for sticking out after you get all of the objectives done and continue to explore, you might find a cargo crate, lost pack, machine event, or a season mini event in the mission, you just have to go look at it.

3. The shop/battlepass is probably the best one I think i've seen ever (like seriously it has no right to be this good.): Lets talk cosmetics, we all love'em, some despise them for being expensive, etc. The in game shop is here in order to give your dwarves to mine and kill glyphids in absolute style! The best part about the cosmetic shop is that all of it doesn't cost real world money, you heard me right you unlock them by being a certain account level, and then can either buy them with credits+minerals, or more recently phazyonite crystal(which lets you save those credits and minerals for other cosmetic purcheses.)

Now...the battlepass, I think we can all agree that many peoples stance on battle passes are extremely polarizing or down right negative, games like sea of thieves, fortnite, and Apex Legends all have battle passes and they suck, either by using the fear of missing out, by extorting their player base for all the money they have, or just by being awful in general.

Let me say without any hesitation that the battle pass for Deep Rock Galactic is none of those things! Firstly its completely free for any player to access everything from it the moment it releases, the weekly challenges give you a good amount of xp to get through the pass fairly fast, getting through the cosmetic tree can be a breeze (for example this season, you go through a cosmetic tree with scrip you get from mission events or weekly quests, or by simply leveling up in the pass, and I pretty much am halfway through it despite the pass almost being over.).

But I think the best part about the pass is this one fact here, Everything that is in the battle pass is not locked, if you are unable to get everything or cannot play the game before the battle pass runs out, then each cosmetic item gets funneled into the loot pools for either the in game shop, cargo crates, or lost packs. So you don't have to worry about missing out on anything!

I would 100% recommend that you give this game a shot, it is well worth the 30$ price tag, and you'll be spending hours of time in the hostile world of Hoxxes IV, hope to see you there soon, happy mining, and rock and stone forever!