BURY IT AND RISE ABOVE

Since Steamworld Dig 2’ s world sprawls out in every direction, it’s good to have ways to speed up your regular trips back to the overground. A network of transportation tubes lets you fast-travel almost instantaneously, and while picking one is a straightforward matter of flicking between them on the map screen, the game understands you’ll most often want to revisit the town, which is just a single button press away. Hop back in once you’ve traded your ores and made your upgrades and the same button will return you from whence you came. It’s one of a number of considerate touches: rather than forcing you down a particular skill path, it’s content to let you respec at any time. And if you don’t want any kind of guidance, you can even turn the waypoint markers off.