Planned Release Date: Mar 25, 2027

About This Game

A whole Egyptian city is buried under the sand. You and up to 7 friends have shovels, a rusty conveyor belt and three sticks of dynamite. What could possibly go wrong?

Desert Diggers is a co-op comedy about archaeologists who are much better at digging holes than at not falling into them. Every grain of sand is real: dig it, haul it, dump it, blow it up, or pour it on top of your best friend. Then carry a priceless 3,000-year-old vase back to camp. Carefully. Together. Please.


The whole city is made of deformable sand. Cut trenches, uncover streets, statues and temple walls, and watch the walls of your pit collapse on the one person who said "it's fine, it's stable". Clear the city street by street, from the potter's workshop to the sealed temple door.


Finds are physical and they break. Brush them clean, pick them up, carry the big ones in pairs, and try not to walk into a column. Sell the loot at the pawn shop, or donate it to your camp museum and watch the collection grow. A shattered find is still worth something. Mostly as a story.



Is your buddy standing at the bottom of a pit? You have a full sack of sand. You know what to do. Buried players can wiggle free or wait for a rescue shovel. The end-of-day awards will remember who the GRAVEDIGGER was.

• Dynamite that blows open huge craters and sends loot (and friends) flying.
  
• Cave-ins, loose rubble and a very angry desert.
  
• Sandstorms that refill your pits and bury exposed finds. Get to camp or start over.
  
• Snakes and scarabs that bite, knock you down and make you drop what you are carrying. Bonk them off yourself or off a friend.
  
• Day and night: the city looks very different after sunset.

Upgrade from a humble shovel to a pickaxe, a sand blower, a sand vacuum, sand bombs and shoring frames. Lay your own conveyor belts, keep the generator fueled and turn a team of amateurs into an industrial sand-moving machine. Or into a traffic jam.


Tired of digging by hand? Buy a Dustin 3000 robot vacuum. It roams the dig site, sucks up sand, hauls it to the sieve and drives off to recharge. Slow, but it never takes a break. Buy as many as you can afford. Sometimes they trip you up. Sometimes a sandstorm flips them over.



Follow the clues to a hidden staircase and descend into the sealed tomb of the vizier: dark halls, painted walls with secrets, and a treasury that has not seen a shovel in three thousand years.

• 1–8 players online co-op through Steam lobbies, or dig solo.
  
• Proximity voice chat: hear the panic of your friends... only when they are close.
  
• Fully deformable sand, cave-ins and physics-based fragile loot.
  
• Two-person carrying, sack passing chains, throwing, shoving and burying.
  
• Contracts, a pawn shop, a camp museum and a shop full of upgrades.
  
• A buried city above and the vizier's tomb below.
  
• Silly end-of-run titles: Gravedigger, Butterfingers, The Mole, Permanently Buried...
  
• Steam Achievements and a Steam Leaderboard for the most sand moved.
  
• Ping system, gamepad support, graphics presets from potato to high.
  
• Bright cartoon low-poly art with silly faces and voices.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools were used during development to create some of the images (store key art and capsules, achievement and item icons, some UI elements and textures) and drafts of text and translations. All of it was selected, edited and reviewed by the team. No AI content is generated during gameplay.