Desert Diggers
Dynamite is cheap. Friendships are not.
Dig out a lost Egyptian city with up to 8 friends! Shovel deformable sand, haul fragile treasures together, survive cave-ins, snakes and sandstorms, and bury your friends alive when they least expect it.
What is Desert Diggers
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.
Desert Diggers starts with a simple question: what happens if you give a group of friends shovels, dynamite and a priceless vase and ask them not to break anything? The whole city is made of sand you can dig anywhere, so every expedition plays out differently: someone digs a trench to the temple, someone lays a conveyor belt, and someone quietly buries a teammate at the bottom of a pit.
Finds are real physics objects. Big vases and sarcophagi take two people to carry, and when one of them trips, a 3,000-year-old artifact shatters into pieces. Loot is sold at the pawn shop or donated to the camp museum, and the money goes on a pickaxe, a sand blower, a sand vacuum, sand bombs and shoring frames.
The desert fights back: pit walls cave in, snakes and scarabs knock you down, a sandstorm buries the dig site, and the city looks very different at night. Beneath it lies the sealed tomb of the vizier. Play solo or online with up to eight players, with proximity voice chat you only hear up close.
Desert Diggers key features
Dig. Haul. Drop. Repeat.
The whole city is made of deformable sand. Cut trenches, uncover streets, statues and temple walls, and watch the pit collapse on the one person who said “it’s fine, it’s stable”.
Fragile treasure, clumsy friends
Finds are physical and they break. Brush them clean, 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.
Bury your friends. Lovingly.
Your buddy is standing at the bottom of a pit? You have a full sack of sand. Buried players can wiggle free or wait for a rescue shovel, and the end-of-day awards will remember who the Gravedigger was.
Chaos is part of the job
Dynamite sends loot (and friends) flying, cave-ins refill your pits, snakes and scarabs knock you down, and a sandstorm can bury everything you did not get back to camp.
A real digging operation
Upgrade from a humble shovel to a pickaxe, a sand blower, a sand vacuum, sand bombs and shoring frames. Lay conveyor belts, keep the generator fueled and turn a team of amateurs into a sand-moving machine.
Go deeper
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 player online co-op through Steam lobbies, or dig solo
- Proximity voice chat: hear your friends panic only when they are close
- Deformable sand, cave-ins and physics-based fragile loot
- Two-person carrying, throwing, shoving and burying your friends
- Contracts, a pawn shop, a camp museum and a shop full of upgrades
- Steam Achievements and a leaderboard for the most sand moved
Desert Diggers trailer
Desert Diggers screenshots
Arrows to navigate, Esc to close
Desert Diggers system requirements
Minimum
Recommended
Requirements are the ones listed by the developer on the Steam page and may change before release.
Desert Diggers FAQ
What is Desert Diggers?
A co-op comedy about archaeologists. You and your friends dig out a buried Egyptian city: shovel deformable sand, carry fragile finds back to camp, set off dynamite and occasionally bury each other.
When does Desert Diggers come out?
The release is planned for March 25, 2027. The Steam page is already live: wishlist it and the store will notify you on release day.
How many people can play together?
One to eight. Online co-op runs through Steam lobbies, and the voice chat is proximity-based: you hear friends only when they are close. Solo play is supported too.
Can you die in the game?
No. The violence is cartoon slapstick with no blood: snakes and scarabs knock you down, dynamite sends you flying, and a buried player wiggles free or waits for a friend with a shovel.
Which languages does the game support?
The interface is fully in English and Russian. The characters speak without words — they grunt, yell and laugh — so the voices work in any language.
