Buried Coast

Buried Coast is a slow, careful excavation puzzle set in a dried ocean basin. You are the
survey that came after the water left — and the hard part was never finding the artefacts.
They are already here, glowing faintly in the sediment. The hard part is getting them out of
the ground in one piece.

Every dig is a single block of layered earth with one fragile object buried inside it: a
votive vessel with two cantilevered handles, a prow figure whose thin neck is meant to break,
a colonnade that only stands while its spans are supported. You work the ground away with a
small kit of tools, reading the strata and the stress on the find, until the object rests free
of all natural sediment and can be lifted. Cut one wrong cell and the roof caves in on it, or a
joint takes more weight than it can hold and snaps. Nothing is random: every board is proven
solvable before you ever see it, so every point of damage was a decision you made.

The simulation is honest. A live stress view colours the ground by how close it is to falling,
and the readout on each joint shows the exact load it carries — the same number the game uses to
decide whether it cracks. You are never surprised by a rule you were not shown; you are only ever
caught by one you did not read.

KEY FEATURES
✓ Hand-built excavation physics — cohesion, cave-ins, cantilevered joints and shoring, all on a
3D isometric voxel board you rotate and zoom
✓ Six tools with real trade-offs — trowel, air scribe, bulk pick, shoring props, consolidant
and the survey pulse, each with a cost you can see before you commit
✓ Every board is verified solvable — a clean recovery provably exists, so difficulty is fair
✓ 36 catalogued finds across four biomes — the Shelf, the Dune Sea, the Causeway and the
Abyssal Terrace, each with its own strata and character
✓ A workbench, not a shop — upgrade your kit with fragments and samples recovered in the field;
nothing is bought, nothing is paywalled
✓ Section reading — a pure-reasoning side puzzle: order the layers of a trench wall from the
relationships you can see in it
✓ Conservation — stabilise a damaged find by containing the cracks before they reach what matters
✓ A Codex of lore for every piece you bring up, and a field log of your whole expedition

HOW IT WORKS
1. Choose a site on the expedition map and open one of its three cuts.
2. Clear the overburden, trench around the find, then undercut and shore it from below.
3. Watch the charge budget and the condition of the object — careful beats fast.
4. Lift the find when no sediment touches it, and read what it was.

WHY BURIED COAST
It is a game about patience and consequence rather than speed or luck. There is no timer, no
energy meter, no second currency to grind. The tension comes entirely from the ground itself and
from what you choose to do to it. The art, type and sound of the whole thing is built to feel like
careful field work at dusk.

PRIVACY / DATA
Works fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no ads. Your expedition is saved only on
your own device.

A quiet hour in the dirt, whenever you want one. Dig carefully.