Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A demo playthrough of Glintseeker Island, an upcoming mining exploration game where your ship crashes into an island and you decide to go mining in the local caves. Basically the mines from Stardew Valley that plays a good bit like Gemporium with the actual mining.
Seems pretty solid with the core gameplay (I rather liked Gemporium) and hopefully some more polish helps as most issues are more quibbles, such as the curious state of tree stumps having walls collapse or the extra storage box being placed adjacent to the initial storage box (probably should just do extra space/another tab to make it easier). I never could complete a blueprint or found a purpose for the broken bones which made them less useful to nab. It also seems you need the potion backpack upgrade to use potions which I'm not a fan of (but other than foolishness with the boulder segment I never particularly found myself in danger of dying since hearts are pretty common). Combat is a bit simpler but I do like the mining minigame is part of the boss fight.
While the demo ends after the Golem you can play until floor 15 for an extra scene and on top of that rarely find a new golem heart to challenge the boss again as a harder version. Silver bars can be obtained through ore from geodes but isn't worth the grind. Elemental hammers are much fun (except that magnet one is kind of weak) but since the sledgehammer/pickaxe combo works great that third hammer slot seems very important to get - these require significant resources to upgrade (4x copper, 2x coal, and magnetite for the magnet hammer for instance) but for a larger damage boost.
Glintseeker Island can be wishlisted and the demo played at store.steampowered.com/app/3122600/Glintseeker_Island
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A demo playthrough of Glintseeker Island, an upcoming mining exploration game where your ship crashes into an island and you decide to go mining in the local caves. Basically the mines from Stardew Valley that plays a good bit like Gemporium with the actual mining.
Seems pretty solid with the core gameplay (I rather liked Gemporium) and hopefully some more polish helps as most issues are more quibbles, such as the curious state of tree stumps having walls collapse or the extra storage box being placed adjacent to the initial storage box (probably should just do extra space/another tab to make it easier). I never could complete a blueprint or found a purpose for the broken bones which made them less useful to nab. It also seems you need the potion backpack upgrade to use potions which I'm not a fan of (but other than foolishness with the boulder segment I never particularly found myself in danger of dying since hearts are pretty common). Combat is a bit simpler but I do like the mining minigame is part of the boss fight.
While the demo ends after the Golem you can play until floor 15 for an extra scene and on top of that rarely find a new golem heart to challenge the boss again as a harder version. Silver bars can be obtained through ore from geodes but isn't worth the grind. Elemental hammers are much fun (except that magnet one is kind of weak) but since the sledgehammer/pickaxe combo works great that third hammer slot seems very important to get - these require significant resources to upgrade (4x copper, 2x coal, and magnetite for the magnet hammer for instance) but for a larger damage boost.
Glintseeker Island can be wishlisted and the demo played at store.steampowered.com/app/3122600/Glintseeker_Island
My Social Media Stuff:
discord.gg/z6WhfmcYXu
twitter.com/CrankyTemplar
