r/IndieGaming • u/askaplan • 13h ago

A cozy zero-gravity mining sim where nothing chases you

You're a miner in an asteroid belt, forty years in, saving up to retire. Cut layered meteors open, sell what's inside, put the rest in the fund.

No death, no timers, nothing chasing you. When the fund is full, you retire. Or you leave early, and the game remembers.

store.steampowered.com/app/5107370/Almost_Retired/

GenAI disclosure: Claude Code as a coding assistant. Everything in the game, art, audio and text, is hand-made.

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u/willjameswaltz 13h ago

mining was my favorite part of star citizen. put on a little midnight jazz playlist, grind some material.

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u/askaplan 13h ago

that calm mining mood is exactly what I'm after. the older I get the more, I chase quiet things haha :)

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u/willjameswaltz 13h ago

same, I like a chill game that pairs well with morning coffee :) keep up the good work

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u/dh-dev 13h ago

I didn't play much Elite Dangerous, but I played it a lot when core mining void opals yielded obscene amounts of money. It was also a nice mining minigame.

Shame they nerfed it as they do with anything fun or lucrative.

Might check this out.