Volcanoids

drill 50/10

New "Hunt" patch means every time you fight a couple of patrols, you get forced to fight an overwhelming, military style quick reactionary force... or you get to hide underground for ten minutes and just not play. If playing the games means not playing the game, then I'm just not going to play the game.

This is strangely out of place when the rest of the cog difficulties are customization, but this one isn't.

Edit: This apparently applies specifically to co-op, where the threat accumulates 2-4 times quicker than in solo.

You know how a lot of games always have a great concept on paper, but when developed they always have some flaw about them that really hinders the enjoyment?

Something weird about the controls, a buggy physics engine, terrible writing or DLCs no communications from the devs etc?

Volcanoids is a game that somehow manages to be a great concept, and execute this concept just about flawlessly without any of the usual issues you might expect it to have.

Sure, it might take a bit to get the hang of things, but there is an in-depth tutorial, an in-game guidebook with information, adjustable difficulty settings, you name it!

The developers (as of 2025) are also actively sharing their progress on new updates publicly, and involve the community with suggestions.

Overall, this is a great game that offers about 12 hours of gameplay during your first run through the story so far (AS OF 2025, SUBJECT TO CHANGE) with enticing mechanics, good gunplay and a lot of drillship customization!

So i gotta be honest, i picked this game up a while ago when it was pretty bare bones..... even then i was actually quite impressed with it over all as a survival craft. Now it's been through a few updates, i am absolutely blown away with the quality and the ambitions the devs of the game have for this game. That being said, let me break this down.
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Volcanoids is a steampunk-esk survival craft, the story element is simple, you're retaking the island from COGS (the robots you encounter). The mainstay of the games focus is both on player character improvement, via better guns, armor, etc, and the utility of upgrading your mobile base: The Drillship. Be it by adding a lot of turrets to the ship, or even just giving it a bunch of modules to increase efficiency of crafting.
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The good so far...

the game is really smooth

the starting difficulties allows new players to ease into the loop (a quest system to guide player what to do).

Variety of enemies, from minor inconvenience to "what the f*ck is this spider?!"

As survival craft goes, its not a super grind either to progress, though if you prefer grind, their is "hard" and custom difficulty settings.

Utility and crafting system on the game are smooth (not much issues with their systems at all, and from what i recall, modding the game is open.

Edit: in current state you don't need the newest pc either, so very good optimization.
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Bad (and these are extremely minor at best.)

Game balance is a bit dodgy right now, hard can be brutal in later stages of the current game.

If you're looking for mods to enhance the current state, their isn't many people modding at current, so quality mods are few and far between.
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Overall... It's great and very promising, i would love to support this game more directly if i could. But i am no coder/modeler.

big drill, guns, robots, great

Disregard "Early access" It is actually a finished game, pretty cool one, fun to play with a friend.
Beat the game for ~15 hours, not sure about replay-ability but it is definitely worth your time

its like deep rock galactic but in the steampunk era

Very fun

Great game! continues to improve!

This would be a neutral review if steam allowed it. The concept is decent, and gameplay is good enough.

It gets really repetitive after a few hours though. I got my money's worth, but i probably won't ever feel any urge to complete/ replay it.

So far, this game has been a lot of fun! There's something about setting up a mobile base armed to the teeth with guns, while also sending out mining drones that just hits the spots.

Wish I could build my own tanks/bots though to send out against the onslaught that comes for me.

Crashes often. Tis crap.

Developer seemed amicable to a refund and told me to go through steam support to try to get a refund despite my playtime being too high. Never heard from either again; I just remembered, so bad review it is!

Great game, I you like being happy then this game is for you.

actively developed and dev(s) listen to community :3

This is the most rage inducing game, the machine hunt update just makes the game 10000000x harder. very good tho.

You should give Volcanoids a chance! I've had a share of frustration in it from the combat, but honestly, I see some potential in this little title. It's fun, looks good, and could really benefit from some more support.

it is a good game, recommended playing with friends though

if you like drill ships, mechanical stuff, robots, good bang for your buck or some thing to really get immersed in then this game witch has tones of relaxing & hardcore game play is the game for you

It is very realistic and there are good animation :)

yes videry good

As of right now it has room to grow and the difficulty spikes when deactivating the lasers is quite a jump and I believe should be looked at for adjustment.

very fun, developer does a fantastic job especially with community relations

I have really enjoyed my time with Volcanoids when I first bought it on Nov 12, 2019. It's had some great updates and changes over time I really recommend. I have not played in ages so that I can experience a lot of changes and updates at once. can't wait to jump back in I'm sure it will be so different that it will feel like a different game. ps. sugma

would have given neutral instead of recomended.. concept is good but after the first hour game becomes a repair sim just to be alive, seems almost imposible on singelplayer after second laser bcs of the amount of enemy that comes attacking you nonstop, and the players weapons feel underpowered.

Small but fun game, played between earliest and lastest updates but a honest chill (not so chill when you reach T3 upgrades and realise your ship is not nearly well armed enough) game that can satisfy that urge when wondering what game to play this week

idk yet i lost all my progress so lemmie get it back before i write something legit

Not quite what I expected. This SHOULD be a game right up my alley. Unfortunately, a myriad of issues just got in the way of my enjoyment. Also, the forced 1st person perspective really left a bad impression on me. Maybe when this is finished if they have made some significant improvements Ill give it a try.

The giant worm is enjoyable. 10/10.

The building and crafting system in this game is great and the combat has been getting much better over time. I come back to it every time there's an update just to play around.

My only gripe is the world travel system. It is so jarringly different and simplistic compared to the rest of the game. Hoping it's on the list for a overhaul before 1.0.

Fun game and all, but shooting is terrible and no fun at all.
If you aim at an enemy moving and shoot, then you should hit it. Here and now 9/10 times your shot won't register. It's almost impossible to hit moving enemies.

How is this not fixed asap? How is this something I have to complain about.
Avoid due to gameplay being broken.

king game ong

Nice game
Recommend to play ya

gud

Very fun game.

very volcaoid

very good game just it gets a bit slow the closer you get to the end of the game

This is a really good game because a lot of thought was put into creating it, so in my opinion it deserves a lot more players

is good

fun

voacno

The game is good and I know I put a bad review but really the only issue I and many other people have with this game is the "repairing simulator" part mid-late game when they CONSTANTLY attack your base. You have to keep coming back to make sure or check every module and it gets annoying and demotivating to push further into the game, so until they finally add some sort of repair module/bot after a suggestion with 80 upvotes from 5 years ago I am not going to keep playing this game

it fun fr fr fr

amazing game, better with friends and mods

got this originally when it came out, but lost the account so i bought it again. love this game, lots of fun.

i haven't played it much but i should've played it when i bought it its fun even though its in EA but its really fun for how little i played

it is fun.

Interesting concept. Absolutely boring and over simplistic execution. Within the first 5 minutes you've seen the whole game. Should be a phone game only.

pretty neat

increadable game the devs put a lot of hard work and love into it one of my all time fav games ever played
i also really love the vibe of the game there really isn't anything else like it 10/10 would recomend

dumb fucking robot i hate you