$14.99Aground From wooden hut to starship
Stranded on an uninhabited island with a few fellow crash survivors, you mine, craft, farm, and build your way from wooden huts to starships. The story keeps widening toward magic, dragons, and other planets, and co-op friends can share the work and the surprises.
Is Aground worth it?
Aground is worth it if…
- you like slow, careful planning with co-op friends
- you want mining, crafting, farming, and building with a story
- you like going from wooden pickaxes to dragons and starships
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A shipwreck that turns into a town
You start with berries, wooden tools, and a handful of survivors, then put up huts, mine ores and gems, farm crops, cook food, and go fishing. Quests lead you to new NPCs, better tools, and new technology, and you decide who to befriend and where to build next. With co-op friends alongside, one of you can keep the mine running while another hauls lumber and someone else finishes the farm. It is simple, steady work with a story pulling it forward.
Swords, spells, dragons, starships
The job description keeps growing. You fight enemies and bosses, level up skills, capture creatures, discover magic, ride vehicles and mounts, and raise dragons. Then the map opens from other islands to other planets, with space travel waiting past the sky. The pixel look stays plain and retro while the scale gets absurd, in a good way. Bring co-op friends for boss fights and big building projects, since there is always another tier of gear to chase.
Good to know before you land?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. The setup is you plus a few fellow survivors and NPCs to befriend, with quests, skills, and building to handle alone. Online co-op is there when you want company, not a requirement for the story.
What do you actually do besides mining?
Plenty. You complete quests, fight bosses, farm crops, cook foods, go fishing, capture enemies, ride vehicles and mounts, and look for secrets. Mining pays for the rest, but it is not the whole trip.
How big does it get?
Bigger than the first island suggests. You travel to other islands and planets, raise dragons, and work toward launching into space to give humanity a future. The sky is literally not the limit here.
