You’ve no doubt heard that
Deep Rock Galactic
is
like Left 4 Dead,
if Valve’s co-op classic swapped zombies for alien arachnids and took place exclusively in dark, confounding tunnels. That’s more or less accurate, but
Deep Rock Galactic’s
eponymous depth is more than just environmental. The breadth of approaches possible here makes
Vermintide 2
look like
Desert Bus,
and frankly it’s all a bit much for the first few hours.
Ghost Ship Games deserves the fanbase they’ve found
An opening tutorial mission does a fantastic job of conveying the basics, though - this is your pick, use it to hack away at valuable minerals and carve tunnels. Right. Cool. Shoot the gun on the bad spiders - with you there. Call the M.U.L.E. to you and deposit mined resources, press 3 to equip a zipline launcher and 4 to toss a shield. Mine the required materials, dump them in the M.U.L.E., call for evac, then make it out before the dropship leaves without you.