You're here for the core. It's at the center, and the rest of the asteroid is in the way. Digging there by hand would take roughly forever, so you're going to make it somebody else's problem.

BOREWORKS is a top down automation game about mining procedurally generated asteroids: build bots, deal with logistics, automate everything.

Automate yourself out of a job

Every problem in this game can be solved by building a bot, including the problem of telling bots what to do. That's a bot too.

Command an asteroid-eating swarm

Your first bot is precious. You might even name it. An hour later you've got a swarm of them stripping a vein like ants on ice cream, and you've stopped naming things.

Figure out logistics

Mining the rock is the easy part. Getting it home is the game. You raise an outpost in the dark and the bots lay track out to meet it. As far as they're concerned, that's a neighborhood. Then they eat the neighborhood.

Use the asteroid to mine the asteroid

You spend rocks to build bots to mine rocks to build more bots. By the end you'll have spent the whole asteroid on the machine that ate it.

No combat. No death. No spaghetti.

The asteroid doesn't fight back. The bots don't unionize. The most dangerous thing on this asteroid is you, and you're just here for the rocks.

Every asteroid is different

Each one is procedurally generated, which is a fancy way of saying I don't know where anything is either.

Reach the core

You'll devour your first asteroid in one sitting. About two hours from the first rock to the heart of the asteroid, then the heart you hauled home buys new variants for you and your bots, and a fresh asteroid is waiting whenever you want another.