In-game screenshot: a mining operation on dark rock. An off-white wind turbine with yellow-striped blades, a lattice drill rig, cargo modules and the domed command hub, venting steam.

DRILL & KILL

In-game screenshot · work in progress

In development · PC · Well, Actually Games

Mine it. Fortify it. Get out before the planet kills you.

A veteran deep-space mining crew lands on a procedurally generated hostile world sitting on a rich deposit. Build an automated extraction operation, fortify it against the native life the planet itself generated, and pull out as much as you dare. Every drill that bites deeper pays more — and wakes more of the planet.

What is it? The studio ↗

Mining claimNo. 1849

Status: In development
Release: Coming soon
Platform: PC / Windows
Steam page: Coming soon

Claim 01 · From the game

Straight from the build

Real screenshots from the current development build. Work in progress: what you see will change, and placeholder pieces are still being replaced.

On the ground

One planet, one operation. Mine by day, hold the wall at night.

In-game screenshot. The operation by day: drill rigs, the command hub, solar arrays and storage, every building a working machine. — Day shift. Rigs, power and storage around the command hub.

In-game screenshot. A walled mining compound on a temperate ochre world, with a cargo line running out to the shuttle pad. — A walled compound. The cargo line runs out to the shuttle pad.

In-game screenshot. The same kind of compound at night: floodlights over the buildings, the dark around the wall full of movement. — Night. Lights on, and the planet comes to see what you took.

In-game screenshot. Dusk over the compound: the light failing, the cargo line running out past the wall into dark ground. — Dusk. The clock says the night is coming, and the forecast says how bad.

Between worlds

The strategic layer. Between landings you chart a route, read the planets and choose where to risk the crew next.

In-game screenshot. The star chart zoomed out: a field of star systems joined by jump lanes, each with its danger rating, the ring of systems the jump drive can reach, and Superior worlds flagged in red. — The star chart. Every system has a danger rating and a jump cost; the dashed ring is how far the drive reaches. Red systems belong to something smarter than you.

In-game screenshot. Four generated planets in one system: two temperate worlds and two frozen ones, each with a danger rating, one marked with a buyer bonus. — Four worlds in one system. Temperate or frozen, calm or storms, each with its own danger and its own price.

In-game screenshot. The planet review screen: candidate worlds, their scanner readings and the proposed landing zones. — Planet review. Read the scans, choose a landing zone.

In-game screenshot. The full star chart screen: the system map beside the selected system's star, danger, minable worlds, market note and jump cost. — The selected system: what its market pays for, what it is glutted with, and what the jump costs.

The crew

Heroes are named veterans. They level up, pick up traits and flaws, carry gear, and each one brings calls you can use in a fight.

In-game screenshot. A hero's details: Hamid 'Dusty' Ishikawa, a driller, with level, health, assignment, the traits Grade Picker and Tailings Sorter, equipment slots and two calls, Go Quiet and Push It. — Hamid 'Dusty' Ishikawa, driller. Traits shape how the hero works; calls are what the hero can do when it goes wrong.

In-game screenshot. The crew roster: named veterans with roles, levels, traits, equipment and the landing party, plus a level-up pick. — The crew roster. Level-ups offer a new trait, a flaw worked off, or the budget banked.

In-game screenshot. The new campaign screen: a hiring pool of eight heroes, each with a role, a hiring price, green traits and red flaws. — A new campaign starts with a hiring pool. Pick four. Every one comes with strengths and something that will cost you.

Claim 02 · The pitch

The planet generates both the economy and the enemy

And the economy is what provokes the enemy. Drill & Kill is a mining, automation and defense roguelite about one question, asked again on every world: how much do you reinvest in surviving here, and how much do you take for the future?

Worlds The planet is the puzzle

Every world is generated: its terrain, its deposits, its landing zones and the life that lives there. What the planet generates changes what you build and when you leave — never just how it looks.

Greed One more cycle

Staying longer pays more and costs more, and the game shows you both. At minute twenty, “one more cycle” should be a genuinely hard call.

Industry An operation you can read

Rigs, power, haulage, silos and shuttle pads. Automation is about throughput, routes and exposure, not belt puzzles: from the strategy camera you can point at the bottleneck and at the asset most likely to be hit.

Ecology The planet answers

Attacks aren’t on a timer. They are the planet responding to what you do — how deep you dig and how big you grow. Learn why it came, and change what you do because of it.

Crew Veterans, not units

Your crew matters through expertise, posts and history. You choose who lands, who mans the lab and who holds the wall — and losing one hurts.

Retreats Every planet is temporary

Get the haul off-world, upgrade the crew and the company, then land somewhere worse. Failure is partial: after a bad run you still have something, and a story.

“Dig deep and you get paid. Dig deeper and the planet gets to know you.”
What the roughnecks say

Claim 03 · FAQ

Straight answers

When does it come out?

Coming soon — we’re not naming a date until we can stand behind it. The Steam page comes first, and it will be linked from here.

What platforms?

PC (Windows) first. Anything else gets announced only once it has been tested.

What kind of game is it?

A roguelite run on a procedurally generated planet: you build and automate a mining operation, defend it through the night, and decide when to leave. Between planets your crew, ship, research and company carry on.

Will it be translated?

Yes — the game is built for localization from the start. The list of languages will be announced with the Steam page.

Who is making it?

Well, Actually Games, an independent studio in Texas building systems-first strategy games. It is the studio behind Voltwood.

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