At its core DRG is a multiplayer extraction looter with four classes and procedural level design. While there is a relatively interesting game here it's buried under cosmetics and live service game design that leave it feeling hollow.

The gameplay itself is simple and engaging, you land, you dig out valuables and build up your horde, fight the monsters, and then make a dash back to the ship to escape. In practice however it can be a bit clunky and highly repetitive. The game is built around terrain deformation which can be tedious and unwieldy until you've upgraded your tools, and requires some blind digging upwards into walls to reach certain minerals. The procedural level design can also make navigation confusing as you dig down and have to make use of limited mobility tools to get around the map. More than once I've fallen into holes dug by others and ended up crippled by fall damage.

I can see the game being fun with friends but PUG play felt uncoordinated if at least cooperative and friendly. The most off-putting part for me was the live service framework - don't get me wrong, it's a free game but you're instantly met with a colossal grind in every aspect. Class levels, talents, equipment upgrades, unlockable equipment, cosmetics, shop points, buff beverages... it's one thing to have a lot of content but every one of these have progress bars and unlockables stretching off into the distance of the screen. While some might be excited at the prospect of so much content to discover, I found myself groaning at the chore of what laid ahead.

Ultimately this is a game that really wants you to no-life it in order to get anywhere, you start under-powered and unable to contribute much so the grind is a necessity from the start. Mission objectives are repetitive and gameplay is shallow as there might be a lot of minerals and mobs but gameplay is largely 'hold left or right mouse'. Friends can make doing anything fun, but seeing the daunting mountain of work and not really getting much out of the gameplay it's not an effort I have the time or interest to invest in. Also the voice acting is offensively bad. Overall a fun game for the right people but expect to put a lot in to get anything out.