Small Town Mines is an adventure game where the player arrives to a small rural town. His mission is to mine some gold for a couple of weeks from his late uncle's mines. The townspeople are not very welcoming to strangers who invade their small world. Try to survive for 12 days and keep your business to yourself!
Keys
Arrows - Control the main character
Enter - The action button that does pretty much anything
Tips
Read the intro text box carefully. It helps you get on with the game.
There's a Tip Portal left top most corner. You can go there for tips.
You should try pressing enter around things that look interesting.
Builds
Download Windows x86 build and play on browser here https://m2tias.itch.io/small-town-mines The build is locked as 720p because I can't deal with resolutions. :(
This game is loads of fun, and my favourite use of the theme so far. The simple animations (especially the helicopter!) actually give it a lot of character. It's interesting to see how different actions affect the suspicion (even eating!), but I think it says a lot about real life. I found it all (especially the utterances of the townsfolk) very funny, while also quite disturbing, which IMO is a great achievement!
It wasn't completely clear what my goal was at the start, but maybe that's intentional? Anyway, I figured it out after playing for a little while, and managed to escape with 40 gold! One thing I wasn't sure about was whether the fire had any purpose; I think I managed to use everything else. Perhaps I should have paid the tip portal some more gold... :D
This game was really fun! I really like how much exploration you can fit into such a small world. The animation of the helicopter was hilarious! There was only two things that I disliked about this game.
1. I didn't realize until really late in the game that I could walk up to the fire. It didn't seem accessible, but I do see an attempt on your part to make it more visible with the sloped hill.
2. I really disliked how the people came out and questioned you anyway, even when my suspicion was at -74/100.
Juggling between smelting the ores, mining, eating and fishing was quite fun. All in all, you did a good job.
It wasn't completely clear what my goal was at the start, but maybe that's intentional? Anyway, I figured it out after playing for a little while, and managed to escape with 40 gold! One thing I wasn't sure about was whether the fire had any purpose; I think I managed to use everything else. Perhaps I should have paid the tip portal some more gold... :D