A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Dig deep, sell what you find, update your equipment to continue your journey further and further. With every spadeful you dig, you get closer to the truth. There's no rush, no rules - just you and the adventure underground...

Find buried treasure in your back garden

A Game About Digging A Hole is exactly how it sounds. You have recently bought a new house, mainly because of the local legend that there is treasure buried somewhere in the back garden. You start with a fairly basic shovel with which to start excavating your new back yard. As you find stones and other minerals in the soil you can sell them in order to upgrade your spade, a jet pack (for ascending out of the hole/s), Rucksack (in order to carry more found items) and battery (to fuel your digging... for, er... some reason). You can also purchase dynamite (to remove immovable rocks and lights (to see your surroundings as you dig ever deeper). You can also buy health and recharge your battery.

As you dig you may find that your metal detector locates something interesting nearby and so it's time to follow the signal to see what surprise awaits you.

Upgrade your equipment to make your life easier

This is a fun little game which is surprisingly addictive. It doesn't take long to update all of your equipment to maximum level, but even then there's still a lot of digging to do. It's oddly satisfying watching the ground disappear. You can create tunnels or simply cover as much area as possible in your quest to find the main treasure.

For £4 I really can't recommend this enough. It will help de-stress you and the hours will simply fly by.

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Darren Rea