About This Demo

THE BUREAU OF RESOURCE EXTRACTION THANKS YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING.

BORE is a 1–4 player co-op survival-horror extraction game. Your crew serves THE MULE, a church-sized drilling machine boring down through a stratified, whispering earth: the Fill, the Old Sea, the Ossuary, and, if the tribute demands it, the Hush. The Bureau calls what you owe it the tribute. The Bureau is politely inflexible about it.

NOTICE OF PROVISIONAL SERVICE. This demo is a provisional contract: the complete BORE loop, certified for the first two strata — THE FILL and THE OLD SEA. No time limit, no run limit; dig as many cycles as you can survive. Plays solo under the governor; best with a crew of four. The daily dig runs, with its own demo leaderboards. Your compendium discoveries and your service record carry into the full game — your record of works follows you. (Run files are provisional and do not carry.)

CREW THE MACHINE. Someone watches the survey plot. Someone rides the throttle and the coolant. Someone works the winch, the klaxon, the dig door. The instruments are physical, the cabin is loud, and the deeper you drill, the richer and louder the specimens.

SORTIE INTO THE DARK. Set the hold, take a lantern, open the door. Out there: mineral nodes, loose relics, and the things that hear you mining — about a dozen of the full game's twenty haunt these first two strata. You are not armed. Your tools are light, noise, and nerve. Flares, sonar, stun-caps, a boarding spade. Light is your weapon; noise is your debt.

GET BACK ABOARD. THE BUREAU PROVIDES. Sell your haul topside, spend it at the Stores which has 27 shelf rows of dubious equipment. Install the odd implant, and if a coworker doesn't make it, carry them home and feed them to the deposit pit. Nothing is wasted.

THE BUREAU PROVIDES. Sell your haul topside, spend it at the Stores which has 28 shelf rows of dubious equipment. Install the odd implant, and if a coworker doesn't make it, carry them home and feed them to the deposit pit. Nothing is wasted.

UNDER SEAL UNTIL NOVEMBER 19. The full dig opens the lower half of the earth: THE OSSUARY and THE HUSH, the deep roster — eight creatures no provisional crew has seen — the heavier implants, the endgame depth ladder, and all 41 achievements. Full-service contracts open November 19. Wishlist BORE and report for the real thing.

FEATURES (PROVISIONAL ISSUE)

• Online co-op for 1–4 with proximity voice. Walkie-talkies and the cabin PA carry your voice further; some things hunt by it
  
• A real drilling minigame: bands, bit temperature, throttle, coolant, cracked bits, breakthrough pushes
  
• Procedurally assembled caves every dive, a daily dig seed, and demo depth leaderboards
  
• Creatures with one gimmick and one counter each — the demo's strata hold about a dozen of the full twenty
  
• Specimen assay discovery and a tribute that grows with the Bureau's appetite
  
• Death is content: spectate your friends, recover the body, settle the bill
  
• A full physics layer: ragdolls, throwable everything, one squeaking idol
  
• Captions, colorblind-safe plot markers, remappable keys, a phobia toggle

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game was developed with help from an AI assistant under human direction and review. No content is AI-generated while the game is running.