Disclaimer: The game has a fateful bug that prevents you from being able to build areas like the refinery and workshop. Sorry for the error on my part...

Just dig! It's that simple!

Move via WASD, zoom with IO. You can click on areas to change what they do, but other than that, the rest of the game is entirely autonomous.

Also, the cave is filled with funny gems that mutate your workers. Just be wary...!

The major inspiration for this game is Achikaps. Style is loosely inspired by EDGE by Mobigame (released in 2008—counts as 2000s!), which stylizes the game via a minimal set of features and formats the UI to fit in with the style.

I wish I could've done more with this, but I was running out of time.... maybe I'll revisit this in the future and give it an overhaul. Hopefully I patched out the large bugs! If it still crashes, there's an autosave every 30ish seconds that HOPEFULLY works. Otherwise delete your save file :']...