I remember having a lot of fun with the original Motherload Flash game by XGen Studios back in the day and remembering that, I decided to get this game to relive that nostalgia. But it's just not as great as I remembered it. Although XGen deserves credit for coming up with an original idea for a good mining game, XGen has not significantly improved on it and other games have taken the idea much further and done more interesting / fun things with it. One problem with Motherload is that it is a long grindfest and takes forever to get anywhere interesting. The story is slow moving, forgettable and kind of bland. The only thing to add some variety to the mining gameplay are the puzzles, but these are too few to really make the game much more interesting. There's not much challenge, it gets kind of boring and I couldn't be bothered to finish it. The problem in my opinion is the lack of interesting discoveries to be made exploring the underground and a lack of opponents or challenges to overcome.

Rather than playing Motherload, I'd like to suggest the following "mining" games with better exploration, more challenges, variety and fun gameplay (these are fairly obvious and I'm sure there are many other good ones I'm missing):
- Terraria
- Minecraft
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Don't Starve
- Factorio

I remember having a lot of fun with the original Motherload Flash game by XGen Studios back in the day and remembering that, I decided to get this game to relive that nostalgia. But it's just not as great as I remembered it. Although XGen deserves credit for coming up with an original idea for a good mining game, XGen has not significantly improved on it and other games have taken the idea much further and done more interesting / fun things with it. One problem with Motherload is that it is a long grindfest and takes forever to get anywhere interesting. The story is slow moving, forgettable and kind of bland. The only thing to add some variety to the mining gameplay are the puzzles, but these are too few to really make the game much more interesting. There's not much challenge, it gets kind of boring and I couldn't be bothered to finish it. The problem in my opinion is the lack of interesting discoveries to be made exploring the underground and a lack of opponents or challenges to overcome. Rather than playing Motherload, I'd like to suggest the following "mining" games with better exploration, more challenges, variety and fun gameplay (these are fairly obvious and I'm sure there are many other good ones I'm missing): - Terraria - Minecraft - Deep Rock Galactic - Don't Starve - Factorio