It's a Metroidvania where you go down. Usually, maze games like that make you go up, as well as left and right. In this one, you mostly go down. There are robot cowboys, but it's steampunk, and many people HATE steampunk stuff. I beat this in 4 hours while suffering from LIFE-LONG DEPRESSION. It's pretty good and I enjoyed the breezy difficulty.
Great dig-em-up-vania! The gameplay loop is simple but engaging, similar to mining in sandbox games like Minecraft or Terraria where you keep going until you die or your inventory is full. Except in this one, the game is much more focused on that, having a smaller and more hand-crafted world with metroidvania style upgrades to spice things up. The scope of the game is not particularly large but thanks to the incredibly consistent design, I always knew I'd have a good time when I booted up the game.
Fun little gem of a game. There's not much story and the game is short, but that's okay because it would have lost it's appeal if it had been much longer. I mean, all you really do is dig in order to find gems and orbs to help power up for the final boss fight, which is the only boss fight in the game. My only real issue with the game is the controls are a bit sloppy.