A Game About Digging A Hole is the aptly named new recreation from indie developer Cyberwave, and it’s, you guessed it, about digging a gap.
For what Cyberwave describes “prices as a lot of a espresso, however is enjoyable for longer,” A Game About Digging A Hole sees gamers purchase a mysterious home for an “unbeatable worth.” That home simply so occurs to have buried treasure within the yard, main gamers to start out digging to find the riches beneath.
It is a easy premise with an excellent less complicated gameplay loop. Gamers will dig, discover treasure, promote these treasures, use the cash to improve their digging instruments, and preserve digging deeper. The recreation’s announcement trailer teases there could also be one thing extra sinister lurking within the deep, darkish depths, however that will likely be for gamers to find, as Cyberwave teases a “huge secret” hidden beneath the dust.
An eye catching and hilariously simple identify undoubtedly appears to be a part of the sport’s advertising and marketing technique. In a weblog publish on Steam, Cyberwave asks gamers to assist make the “quirky” challenge “go viral” in order that it is “the sport everybody’s speaking about.”
The authentic concept for the sport got here in the course of the growth of Cyberwave’s upcoming floating island survival recreation Solarpunk. It was experimenting with voxel-based terraforming, solely to finally ditch the thought. One of many recreation’s artists, impressed by the tech and the sport Motherload, then put collectively what would develop into A Game About Digging A Hole in simply 14 days of his spare time. Solarpunk itself will not be out but and is deliberate for a 2025 launch, however Cyberwave emphasised that A Game About Digging A Hole did not take a single day from Solarpunk’s growth.
A Game About Digging A Hole does not have a precise launch date or worth simply but however is slated to reach in 2025 for PC.