Retromine

Retromine is a mining deckbuilding roguelike where survival competes with long-term growth. Play cards to collect resources, then spend ore on cards and upgrades. Scorium helps you escape danger, creating a tradeoff between getting stronger and getting out alive. Procedural expeditions, resource and tool cards, and utility effects encourage different combinations across runs. The pixel-art presentation is accompanied by synthwave music. The developer describes the game as challenging and offers browser troubleshooting notes on the source page.

Use your cards to mine resources while keeping an escape possible. Bring back ore to buy cards and improve the deck, then attempt deeper expeditions.

See the original itch.io page for the developer's control notes.

Balance ore for upgrades against scorium needed to survive. Look for cards that support a coherent resource strategy. If the in-game blue-screen error occurs, the developer recommends disabling CRT, background motion and card motion in Options.

Mining deckbuilding Procedurally generated expeditions Resource, tool and action cards Utility cards and synergies Pixel art Synthwave soundtrack