Dust & Dig

About the Game

Every hole is a lottery ticket.

You arrive in a sun-baked cartoon desert with nothing but your bare hands. Somewhere under the sand are rusty cans, lost wedding rings, old revolvers, gold nuggets, meteorites and a pharaoh's golden mask. Also under the sand: rattlesnakes. Dig anywhere. Something is always maybe down there.

Hands-on, and we mean hands.

Your hands are real physics bodies. Grab a scorpion by the tail, punch a lizard across the dunes, wrestle a snake off a friend, throw a stick of dynamite a little too late. Everything is clumsy, heavy and funny, and no two fights go the same way.

Everything has a price.

Haul your finds to the trading post and sell to Dusty. Relics, junk, gems, pelts, even live critters in a jar all turn into cash. A clean kill sells for more than a messy one, and a critter caught alive is worth the most of all.

Better gear, deeper desert.

Spend your money in town: shovels, a pickaxe, a sieve, metal detectors that beep louder the closer you get, snake tongs, a UV flashlight for glowing scorpions, dynamite, a pocket knife, a machete, a slingshot, a revolver, a shotgun, a lever rifle and a tranquilizer rifle. Take contracts from the notice board, complete collections for the Professor, paint your body at the mirror, and try your luck at the Dealer's table in the Tent.

Five zones, two bosses.

The Rolling Dunes, the Red Canyon, the Dry Riverbed & Oasis, the Salt Flats and the Buried Ruins, each with its own loot, critters and dangers. Pay the road toll or take the contract that opens the road, then face Old Diamondback, a 6 m rattlesnake that swallows your shovel, and the Mummy Pharaoh, who calls up swarms of scarabs.

Better with friends.

Play solo or in online co-op for 1-4 players through Steam (invite friends, or join open games). One of you digs while another guards the hole; hold a snake down together; carry a downed friend back to town before they bleed out. Friendly fire is on by default. You'll find out why.

Features

• Fully physics-driven hands: grab, punch, stab, throw and shoot anything that moves

• Dig anywhere: the sand is fully deformable, and in co-op everyone sees (and falls into) the same holes

• 9 kinds of desert critters, from lizards and tarantulas to coyote packs, vultures and scarab swarms, plus 2 bosses

• 20+ tools and weapons, from a trowel to dynamite and a tranquilizer rifle

• 5 hand-made zones and 2 bosses

• Trading post town with six traders, contracts, collections and a gambling tent

• Online co-op for 1-4 players (Steam), drop-in and out

• Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves

• Play with an Xbox controller, or keyboard and mouse with rebindable keys

• Colour-blind signal colours, subtitles, camera shake and "less gore" options