A downloadable game for Windows

Website: https://manicminers.baraklava.com/

Manic Miners is a completed faithful remake of LEGO Rock Raiders, originally released in 1999, but adds a lot of content and brings it up to modern gaming standards. It is free for everyone to enjoy. Dig in and re-live this immortal game today!

For the latest news, updates, and chatting with other Rock Raiders fans, join the Discord! https://discord.gg/C3hH7mFsMv

MAC: Unfortunately, the game is hasn't been compiled for Mac yet, but will hopefully be soon. Some users have found success using the Game Porting toolkit.

LINUX: Unfortunately, the game is hasn't been compiled for Linux yet, but will hopefully be soon. Some users have found success emulating the game using Lutris/Wine.


Latest version: There is only one unified version now! Just download whatever is below. Last updated: 2023-09-17 (1.0.4 Patch)

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(141 total ratings)
AuthorBaraklava
GenreStrategy
Tags3D, lego, mining, raiders, Remake, rock, rock-raiders, rock_raiders, Singleplayer, Unreal Engine

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Manic Miners V1.0.4 1,013 MB

Install instructions

What about Mac or Linux?

They are probably coming eventually.

To install a new game version:

You don't install this game with an installer - it is "portable", meaning you instead get a folder that you can put anywhere on your computer, move it whenever you want, and the game won't be affected. All custom maps, custom textures, miners, profiles and settings are saved in external folders (maps are saved in the Documents folder).

Nevertheless, here are the instructions on how to play the game on a PC:
Prerequisites: First, make sure your computer can unpack compressed Zip files. If you can't, or aren't sure how, I recommend downloading and installing the free program "7Zip" https://www.7-zip.org/. WinRar is another decent alternative. After you have done this, please follow these steps:
Step 1) Download the game .zip file you've chosen and find it on your hard drive
Step 2) Right-click the .zip file and choose "Unpack to ManicMinersV1.0". You may find this under the "7Zip" menu after right-clicking if you installed 7Zip.
Step 3) The game is now placed in a folder next to the .zip file. This folder is portable, meaning you can place it anywhere on your computer. Your levels, profiles and miners are saved in a "global" folder, and will remain even if the game folder is deleted.
Step 4) Open the folder and double-click the .exe file to run the game.
Step 5) If you are having problems, try out the shortcuts in the AlternateVersions folder next to the exe. They are shortcuts to run older graphics versions, basically. If you still have problems, please connect to the Discord server and ask for help in the #troubleshooting channel. (Discord invite: https://discord.gg/C3hH7mFsMv)

Note: Your antivirus might mark the game or zip as suspicious. Don't worry, I've played it myself and it's safe.

To update from an existing game version:

Follow the instructions above again and just place the game in a new separate folder. Never merge the files into an existing folder, as that can cause conflicts leading to crashes. Deleting an existing game folder will not delete any of your save files or levels and is fully safe to do at any time. I recommend deleting old versions of the game entirely so that they're not overwritten by old data. To play older builds, please refer to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/manic-miners-archive


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Well, it's just awesome!

And it works great on the Steamdeck too! Just download it, add it as non-steam-game in desktop modus and select Proton 8 as compatibility tool.

(You have to customise the mouse only layout a bit if you want to use hotkeys - I'll be publishing my layout when I mapped everything)

This is a brilliant remake of the old RR game. Lived up to all my expectations and then some, so many little features making it a much more pleasant experience than the original, I loved that I could turn the stress levels down on some of the run away from lava levels, but there are so many other little tweaks you've made that improve things

I've realised this game is kind of a precursor to factorio in several ways too, decades before it's time, a gem many will have missed out on, 

Even with the improvements you've made there is an extensive list of QOLs/features I'd like to see implemented some bigger, some smaller, I think many of them became more standard practice after RR was made and others were just too computationally expensive at the time (the requirements were a 200-400MHz processor and 32MB RAM) but I think that's less of a concern with more modern hardware. I also know the dev is taking a break but I want to make a list here anyway:

  • Be able to queue vehicles like you can queue miners (though if there's no resources it won't teleport them until resources have become available)
  • Be able to give each different sort of vehicle it's own task priority (this would let me turn off transport ore for miners if/when there's transport trucks to do that job, letting the miners focus on clearing rubble which transport trucks can't do, among other common optimisations I do)
  • Separate Collect Studs from Collect Ore
  • Separate Directed Rubble Clear from Automatic Rubble Clear
  • Add auto mining and auto reinforce as options in the priority queue like auto clear rubble (have these off as default like the base game)
  • Add Auto Repair Lava Damage to Priority Queue (off as default)
  • Add Auto Training in the miner priority queue so they will auto-upgrade if they're otherwise idle (off as default)
  • Add upgrades and repairs as part of vehicle priority (It can be a pain to find all the transport trucks to upgrade them with bigger engines and cargo capacity, if I'm doing those upgrades I want to apply them to all the trucks I have without having to track each and every one down one by one)
  • The Hover Scout and Rapid Rider currently don't do mining tasks automatically even if they have the mining upgrades and the tasks are available for them.
  • Have a way to mark every tile in some area with the same task.
  • Having more power stations could allow for more consecutive electric fence discharges (or bigger Zaps) before waiting for the cooldown.
  • Better Pathfinding, thin powerpaths lines generally aren't worth building to increase miner speed because the Miners don't preferentially use them to get to places faster, they always take the shortest route not the fastest route, avoiding uncleared rubble would also benefit from this change.
  • Better Pathfinding, it'd be great if it was possible to choose the order in which things would happen when they're of otherwise equal priority, right now I think it's just whichever was queued first but for miners I'd like them to do the fastest task of a given type even if it's not the first one that was generated of that type (staying close to the base where possible so collecting ore isn't just the time to pick it up but also includes the time to drop it at a tool station or ore refinery), meaning they will often go to the closest marked wall to dig or closest rubble to clear, etc... while for vehicles if they're at the base (relatively near a tool station) I want them to go to the furthest pickup task from the base (meaning furthest from any tool station) cause they'll generally get there faster than the miners and when they're away from the base I'd like them do things that're the closest to them first. (Transport trucks are the biggest culprits here, right now they will zip back and forward according to the queued order to pick up things, and they can pick up a stud and carry it to the far corners of the map to get more items, losing inventory space and time in the process. If they went to the single furthest item from the base and then picked up the 2 or 5 next closest items to that point and run them back together that'd be much more efficient use of their time and the one stud that needs putting in the tool store should be the last thing for a vehicle to pick up (unless it's part of a building order) as it's a very quick job in most cases for a miner and it's also relatively safe being in the base even if it isn't in a tool store while far-flung energy crystals could be eaten by rock monsters, but I've seen inefficient behaviour with Loader Dozers too)
  • Path Finding Overriding existing Tasks, even if something is already on route to a task if there's something else that would complete that task faster (and wants to do it) then kick the slower thing off the task and redirect them to do something else. (again transport trucks are the stand-out culprits, there might be several clusters of energy crystals across the map a miner might be sent to get crystal 1 then a truck will get 2 and 3 from that cluster and it'll ignore crystal 1 making the miner collect it at a far slower rate, and instead it'll zip across the map (maybe ignoring other crystals on route to another cluster perhaps again not picking them all up because another miner is on the way there by that point, so I think it'd be great if a vehicle that's right there any way would override a miner that's on the way especially if the miner would take much longer to complete the task)
  • Better Pathfinding if the only way to get to a task is to use an empty vehicle to get there then the Miner should be able to do that automatically. This also applies to small vehicles using the abilities of the Cargo Carrier and Tunnel Transport or doing tasks only vehicles can like drilling hard rock. And all those special animations that have been added to jump gaps, I almost never see them cause I don't like micromanaging miners that much
  • Mining Lasers should be able to automatically mine within a limited area around them including targeting inside corner walls (including those on vehicles)
  • Mining Lasers could automatically target the Monsters and Slugs if the alert mode is on (including those on vehicles)
  • Mining Lasers on vehicles could take a second miner along to operate the laser even when the vehicle is moving (though I can see this coming as an upgrade and requiring model changes)
  • Better Fog, have the map colours show in overworld view to highlight things in unmined areas.
  • Large Teleport Pads should be able to do everything a smaller teleport pad of the same level could do, so teleporting a small vehicle or standing in for a requirement if the small teleport pad is destroyed and you'd like to build another support station.
  • Level complete, have an option where if every single task that could be done has been then end the level, if that's no minable walls, no depleted energy crystals to recharge, no rubble to clear, no miners to train, no crystals or ore left to collect etc then automatically end the level (since you've changed the level end to include taking the resources of which have been invested with you this is 100% completion no way of improving the score only the potential of loss of crystals and ore to monsters bashing open vehicles, buildings and powerpaths)

Some of these are likely very easy, some will probably mess up the UI and I'm betting many others would require a lot of thought about how to optimize them cause while they sound simple I bet they're full of hidden complications ^_^ if even a few of these ideas ever make it into the game I'll be thrilled.

And while I've said I'd like these changes even without them the game is totally playable and a lot of fun, the revamped campaign is familiar but different enough that even though I knew the original inside out I'm sure I have a lot to learn about MM over RR.

I'm now wondering if there are any other things I'd like to mod into the game if that ever comes about, maybe another resource and some extra processing, we have ore, these can be turned into studs/bricks and energy crystals for power, but maybe something that can only be collected by killing the monsters and slugs? Food maybe? make a use for the canteen. I'd also like a way to make a campaign more integrated with the LMS story, you start the game with space for 3 Rock Raiders on the LMS and in order to get more you have to find them in the levels and make sure you collect enough resources to expand the LMS with space for them... I can see that having to replay levels might be a significant part of that for example I'd need a labyrinth-like level with several places miners could spawn and different potential layouts as the way to find rock raiders, I'd also want very few resources to make it out of that level so being able to more directly control the amount of ore/crystals a wall drops would be amazing if that exists in the editor so far I haven't found it XD there's a lot to think about. 

I hope you understand this post is out of love and passion for what you've made and not a huge dollop of criticism for it not being good enough <3 

Absolutely spectacular! The adjustment to gameplay balance really shines, it's a super remaster of this beloved game. I've been playing it a lot lately, it's masterful.
This is the game they intended to make I think, the polish is excellent.

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Amazing work! This was legit one of the first video games I ever owned, my grandpa bought me it and I could only play it on his super old pc. I tried to play the game again a few years back on some emulators but the graphics always crashed the game. This was so smooth and easy to play, the addition of hot keys and being able to speed up the game speed made it so much fun to play again. Thanks so much for making this, again very well done haven't had nostalgia like that since i played osrs again for the first time.

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All I can say is wow. I only vaguely remember playing the game back in the day being quite young, but I thought no way it actually holds up?

I've been hooked for 4 solid hours this afternoon just playing the classic campaign. I'll definitely check out the new content.

I beg you do Alpha Team next :D

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I really can't thank Baraklava enough for Manic Miners. Being able to play it on my ultrawide monitor with a modern PC and not only enjoy the classic Rock Raiders experience but also all the additional features they added is an absolute treat. 

If they accepted donations I'd happily pay $60 for such a masterfully done remake, but since they don't so I'll just have to gush and give my many thanks <3

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No need for money, Rock Raiders should be free for everyone to enjoy! Keeping the community alive is more than enough for me :)

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This is probably the best fan remake I've ever played. I can't really give enough praise for this, on both a technical level and just the sheer amount of love for this old game radiating from every part of its production. 

This isn't just a remake - though all the classic LRR content is there. It's more akin to an expansion or even sequel. If you've come looking for a convenient way to play an old game on a modern PC (as I was) then prepare to have your socks blown off. Personally, I would've been happy with a somewhat janky reimplementation that was hacked together that mostly worked, but this is so, so, so much more. 

I could probably spend hours listing off all the new and improved features of this remake, but I won't. In short, this isn't just a simple fan project. It's a fully-featured, polished and expanded package that, if it were officially sold as a remake/remaster, I would be incredibly impressed by the quality. 

Props to Baraklava and any other contributors. My only hope now is that you don't suffer too much from success and see Lego come spoil the fun. 

banger

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I can remember fondly playing it in the day care center often even though I had no real clue how to play it

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Thank you so much for doing all this work.

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who could've guessed that a random comment from a random video YT suggested my led me here. Rock Raiders is my fav childhood game and I still have a copy installed. 

So I wanna say thank you for your hard work. I'm going to play this thoroughly.

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Awesome remake and further more a more advanced version, worth trying out if your an old 90s fan or a new one.

Omg i love you, I need a French versioonn :((

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Thank you for making this.

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So here's how it went. I was talking with my friend about GOG.com and I thought to myself "y'know, what would really make GOG a good service is if they brought in LEGO: Rock Raiders", and to find some examples for my friend about the game I went ahead and looked it up...and saw this "Manic Miners" thing, thinking to myself at the moment "woah, someone made a game inspired by Rock Raiders? Cool, what's it look li--"

And then I opened the link and saw this, and my jaw dropped. You are truly a phenomenon. I've been playing this all day. I wasn't ever too good at the original game as a kid, and I want to finally revisit it now and actually finish this game. I've been so sucked into this, my nostalgia is off the charts. I'm still soaking in the tutorials right now (which are really well made, though a few glitches with the message log but no big deal). 

I cannot believe that this remake exists, it's both amazingly faithful but immensely transformative. The game is beautiful, like how my memory envisions it, though I know it's not anything like how it looked before. I've wanted to replay this game for years now, and I must thank you for your contribution to bringing my childhood back into my hands. The customization shop is also awesome, so many minifig parts I recognize that I had when I was younger, truly this game is just to cater to us fans of one of the greatest eras of LEGO that ever existed. I'm just thoroughly in love, thank you so so much for this.

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Oh my god I spent at least 100 hours on this game as a child, I cant believe someone would remake this thank you so much I'm so excited to download this when I get home!!!

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Absolutely fantastic! One question, are there plans for a Borderless Windowed mode? The game doesn't stream to Discord unless it's in Windowed mode.

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Borderless Windowed unfortunately didn't work so it was removed as a setting, sorry! I might investigate again in the future

Sounds good, hopefully that'll work out.

Was wondering about the minimap, I only see the option to zoom, is there no panning feature?

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Stoked to play this beautiful classic again. Thanks for all the hard work you put into it! Amazing to actually have a finished product after all the past attempts.

I've been following this for a long time and now that it's finally fully out I'm going to be sinking many hours in! It works great for me on Linux under Proton Experimental, by the way.

thanks for the new tutorials explaining defensive measures. i was finally able to play the missions with monsters properl

Does the new update fix the game turning PC into jet engine ?

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i rather have it turn into a jet engine than it overheating and taking damage.

maybe you need to either lower your grafics settings or buy newer hardware.

Question: I am having an issue with audio. The audio plays during the intro sequence when I turn the game on only. After that, no sound at all. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times but its the same problem. Thanks!

LOVE the game and all your work btw!!

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There needs to be a way to have miners and transports prioritize tasks closest to them.
Every single mission, I have several areas littered with rubble and ore, but instead of doing the logical thing like clearing/collecting closest to base, the miners will pick whatever random ore or rubble anywhere on the map. 

Just now I'm watching a small transport truck pick up a single ore in area A, then go back to base to pick up a refined stud, then go to area B to pick up another ore, then go to base to dump the ore in the refinery, then go to area C to pick up a third ore, and then go back to base again.
Sometimes I'm also seeing transports pick up only a single piece of ore in between runs because another transport apparently decided that they'll pick up the ore right next to the first one.

This lack of pathing optimization makes missions take upwards of an hour because none of the miners are able to decide who picks up what.

I've seen similar to this in my own game, sometimes if another Miner has selected a particular task, be it rubble or picking up ore/crystals, the other miners will leave it alone.

but I haven't had them go back and forth with 1 single item. I do know however that the miners are coded in the way of getting the nearest ore/crystal from a tool store regardless of which direction it is. Think of the area like the Radius when scanning with the Geological Center. they'll work from the Center point outwards in any direction.

This could be the explanation as to why they are running back and forth, but running back to the base before collecting the next resource shouldn't be happening if the Transporter has spaces available, I'll try some experimentation and get back to you.

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This is the greatest thing! In my search for a LRR substitute, I found this! I hoped to find something for switch, just because I think it would work great on that platform. Is it even possible to convert to switch?

I'm afraid a Switch version would be hard, but it's an interesting idea!

Steam Deck version when? 😆

So, bug report, I guess? But I did find this funny, personally. lol -- The remastered version of water works? Uh.. Sorry, the one where Bandit is just waiting there and you have to rescue the other miners. -- A couple Rapid Riders I had actually drove on land (where there was a refinery) to directly deposit some energy crystals into the tool store. lol

Here's my bug report file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-HqaRLvjtkYYx0fHXAPXBOciTYdoAr3_/view?usp=shari...

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I am really enjoying the game, all the memories and nostalgia but with a fresh look and feel. 10/10.

But I can't figure out how to use the vehicle menu, either I have forgotten how to play, or this is a game breaking bug.

It is affecting every level in the campaign.

Even the tutorial seam broken.

Please try re-downloading the game. If you can't progress, please try to create a clean, new profile. It is possible an old profile or old game files is causing this behaviour.

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Solved: Beware of Network Drives.

The problem persisted after re-downloading and starting a new profile. So I started brainstorming, thinking that my setup could be the problem, and immediately it be became obvious. 

My downloads folder is on a network drive, and I extracted the game files there and ran it. So I moved the game folder to my C drive, and now the vehicle menu works great.

Thank you for your support, It was just a silly mistake for me to try running it from a local network.

 I went to play today and my profile and progress has dissapeared? Anyone else have this problem or have i just screwed up somewhere? haha

Well it seems to work now. Maybe I clicked the reset button by accident or something.

Awesome remake anyway, a great achievement.

I have "prioritize studs" enabled in my settings, but when I try to build a structure with less than 5 ore but 15 studs, my miners want to build with only the ore. If I dispense studs, they pick up the studs but put them back into storage.

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I'm also seeing a discrepency in the miners' priorities- by default, picking up ore is the lowest priority.

However in larger maps when I end up having a whole lot of rubble around and I want to build something, I have to wait a long time to get it done because everyone is too busy picking up ore across the map (let alone the ore in immediate visibility to the base, LET ALONE the mountains of rubble I still have all over the place, or any orders to dig or reinforce walls, which are usually at the top of the priorities list) to bother putting any of the collected ore or studs into the structure right next to the tool shed.

I have to either manually control a miner to deposit the ore into the new structure, or completely disable ore pickup in the priority list.

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Very exciting to see my childhood classic come back out of nowhere, thank you!

Would it be possible to add a slider option to set the map scrolling speed while controlling the camera with the keyboard? The default seems to be a little too fast for my taste.

So excited to play this childhood classic again. Thank you for making this

Loved playing this game as a kid, its just like I remember!

Best game. Best game. 
If you like games like Dungeon Keeper. It a must play.
If you play Deep Rock Galactic, it also a fun. Rock and Stone!

I'm gonna miss that Lava Lake Cavern for a Main Menu but the new one is amazing.

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It was a complete fluke that I came across this yesterday through my Youtube feed. (Hours after the premiere released, apparently?) This is SO a game I didn't know remember I wanted, because I lost my original disc over two decades ago and emulation just a decade ago had the game too obsolete to do everything. lol (Wow am I old..) I also just want to note that it was a rather nice touch that you added an option to have a random crash every 40-ish minutes emulating the original game. lol

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V1.0 is released! Please enjoy :D

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Hey Barak I am a linux(Musl libc) user. Can I have the source code to port to other platforms(Linux+GNU, Linux+MUSL, BSD, ETC.)?

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I'll look into Linux and Mac builds when I find the time!

Thank you so much for developing this remake especially with so much dedication!

Would love a Mac build of this if you find some time

I'm beyond thrilled to see this project, even more so knowing it didn't end up being one of the many "Starts project, project quickly dies"  endeavors.   Massive, massive thanks to you for taking this on and bringing it so far <3

I've currently only one 'request'  and that would be if at all possible a native screenshot feature,  like say CivilizationIV where pressing (F12 I think it was by default?)  would take a snapshot and put it in the game's folder.
PrntScreen asks for confirmation before actually saving it and on my double-monitor setup will capture the second monitor too,   but in the meantime - or if this is a feature you can't add -  ScreenHunter serves as a good alternative

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Hello, if you go to the Pause Menu, there is a button called "Cinematic Camera". I should allow you to natively take cinematic screenshots from any angle :) I think there is a bug in the current build where it hides the UI though, if that happens please go to the settings and just click Apply and it'll show up again (fixed for next version)

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Thank you!  A minor note though in that after taking the screenshots in that mode  the minimap gets reset.

Two smaller questions,    are the original Tutorial Missions going to be in the game?  Its more of a nostalgia thing than for practical reasons.

The second - and apologies if I missed this being explained elsewhere - but the  percentages under each mission are gone.  Is that a feature that was removed or will it be added again later?  I remember in the original game it was impossible to get 100% on every mission because of an unreachable condition in The Gauntlet(?)

It was removed, it felt like such an unfinished feature and didn't quite make sense because players could never know what counted for the score. Instead you have a crystal and time record saved, so you can race to beat your own records or compare with others if you'd like :) 

The original tutorials would take several months of dedicated programming work to implement, and it was decided it is too much effort just to replicate those when they wouldn't be very useful to the average player. They might happen in the future, but I would not bet on it, as the existing tutorials do the job fine considering all the new features that need to be explained.

Oh yeah definitely;  it was one of those kind of features that's just 'there' and isn't explained enough or at all.  The time/resources record definitely feels better (Though my Time scores will forever be bad due to how often I pause the game - timer ticks on even when paused)


Don't worry about it then~  I can't claim to know anything about how porting this project works under the hood and even just rebuilding them in the supplied Editor would as you said be of minimal usefulness beyond just being there.

A note about print screen: if you hold Alt while pressing prntscreen, it will only take a screenshot of your active application. So as long as your  game is focused, pressing alt+prntscreen will copy a screenshot of just the game to the clipboard.

Oh that's good to know! 

I can barely wait...

Helloo, I have never played this game before so I went to the tutorial and I have no idea how to play this! The tutorial is: Rock Raiders, and how to use them. I'm not sure if its broken or not enough info is given so a new play can learn. the game looks cool though so keep up the good work

It's an area we absolutely need to work on, hopefully it will be improved for the 1.0 update :)

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THE DAY OF RELEASE DRAWS NEAR!

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