ORE

ORE is a couch-cooperative twin stick shooter where you and your friends are space miners draining a hostile alien planet of a volatile resource that's corrupted the planet's inhabitants. Fight through a handful of levels and navigate the planet's varied surface to collect as much Ore as you can before the planet implodes. Once you've gathered enough Ore, you can afford a trip to the planet's core where you will face the Ore-corrupted guardian that's causing the planet to collapse-in on itself. Defeat the guardian, save the planet, and get rich!

ORE takes place in the far future where a massive, omnipotent corporation has taken control of all intergalactic space mining. Those employed as space miners are indebted to the company with their lives, or provide a tremendous sum of the galaxy's new currency, simple called, "Ore." Garnering value immensely beyond any other mineral yet discovered, Ore has become the galaxy's most precious resource due to its phenomenal electrical conductivity, ability to fertilize sources of life, flexibility to chemical alteration, attractiveness in jewelry, and ability to be smelted into the most stable metal - we have ever known. The only downside to the precious mineral is that it can be extremely invasive if left alone for long periods of time - so much so that it can even integrate itself into the biology of other species. Those that are infected are extremely agitated and hostile from the pain of minerals growing inside them, while creatures that aren't infected fight against those who threaten the state of their natural world. Whether through conflict with wildlife, corporate wars, or radical environmentalists, nearly every planet found with traces of the precious Ore ends up as space rubble.

Two hundred years ago, on the edge of a distant solar system, the corporation found a planet with rich sources of Ore. But when they tried to excavate it, every mission failed and no crew ever made it back. Now, it's your turn to face certain death. You are a space miner and owe your life to the will of the organization. Together with your crew of fellow miners, you set off to strip mine this planet in hopes of paying off a life debt's-worth of Ore. But beyond just mining a massive amount of Ore, the company wants more from you - they want you to save the planet so they can mine it continually. Giant fissures in the world's crust and increasingly abrupt changes in its ecosystems have indicated that the planet is becoming fatally unstable. Find and neutralize the threat to the planet's stability before the world collapses-in on itself in order to gain your freedom.