Dust & Diamonds

Desert silence and a pickaxe in your hand. You head underground, and for a while the world above stops mattering. Dust & Diamonds is a calm pixel-art game about digging, building and trading. You are a goblin with a handful of coins and a crumbling settlement at the edge of the desert. The rest you write yourself, one tile at a time. Day and night over the desertA day lasts half an hour: dawn, noon, a violet dusk, the moon over the rocks and lights in the windows.

Sandstorms, vultures over the desert, caravans making camp in the distance. Sometimes a cat sleeps on the Shop roof. When it comes down, you can pet it.A mine you'll want to come back toDig at your own pace. First dirt and coal, then gold, platinum, titanium and diamonds, all the way to the bottom, 100 metres below the surface. Place ladders, torches and support beams, pick up what you dig out, while your Workers carry goods from the chests back to the settlement.

One more tunnel. Five more minutes. The rock keeps its surprisesBehind the wall wait hidden pockets and caves, some with ore, some with water or lava. And water really flows. One swing of the pickaxe and the tunnel you dug so patiently has a river of its own. The mountain likes to remind you it's thereNo ceiling holds forever.…