Numb Digger
The Numb Digger is a grim excavation survival game about forcing a way down through a frozen world while your body, crew, and camp come apart. Carve routes through ice, manage warmth and supplies, recover buried histories, and return before the shaft keeps you.
The Numb Digger is a grim excavation survival game set in a frozen dead world. You are sent below a failing camp to dig for heat, relics, bodies, records, and whatever truth the ice has kept intact.
Each descent is a run into a layered shaft. Dig through snow, clear ice, pressure ice, black ice, and stranger strata while managing warmth, stamina, tools, light, injuries, and load. Push deeper for better finds, or turn back before the cold, the climb, or the shaft itself makes the decision for you.
Between descents, the camp waits with its own pressures: debt, contracts, factions, crew needs, wounds, rumors, and offices that insist the paperwork matters even when people do not come back. The Bore Guild, Chapel, Heat Syndicate, Family Claimants, and Surveyors Office all want something from the dig. None of them agree on what should stay buried.
The ice is not just terrain. It is an archive. You will uncover preserved bodies, impossible rooms, dead machinery, warm objects, letters that should not know your name, and evidence of older expeditions that reached conclusions no one above wants recorded.
This is not a bright mining toy. It is a systems-driven horror expedition: cold bureaucracy, human consequences, tactical digging, and the slow realization that some things underground remember you.
Key Features
Dig deliberate routes through layered, reactive frozen terrain.
Manage warmth, stamina, breath, pain, numbness, load, tools, and supplies.
Return to camp with resources, bodies, relics, records, and consequences.
Navigate faction contracts, camp upgrades, crew recruitment, wounds, and debt.
Discover narrative finds that turn the shaft into an archive of buried lives.
Face permanent run outcomes and long-term camp pressure.
Choose how far to push when the safest decision is also the least profitable.
Built for a grave, painterly, cold-bureaucratic horror tone.
Tactile excavation survival in a frozen shaft.
Camp management with debt, factions, crew, upgrades, and contracts.
Narrative discovery through bodies, artifacts, letters, anomalies, and failed expeditions.
Run-based risk decisions: return alive or push deeper for stranger finds.
Grim painterly art, cold UI, and a haunted expedition atmosphere.
