Archeological Expedition
A cozy archaeology dig-sim across ten historical eras. Brush carefully or swing the pickaxe — every tool trades preservation against speed, and the journal you build remembers the difference.
Cozy on the surface, deep underneath.
Excavate artifacts at real-world historical sites — from Egyptian tomb chambers to Roman ruins, Greek temples, and Bronze Age burial mounds.
Choose your tool carefully. A brush takes its time but preserves what it finds; a pickaxe is fast and brutal. Tool choice is the strategy — pick wrong on a fragile rare and you'll smash the discovery you came for.
Every find populates a journal you grow across sessions. Catalog the perfect specimens, mourn the chipped ones, return to a site you missed something at. Spend coin between digs on better tools, gentler ones, faster ones. Hit a storm warning and decide whether to push for one last find or pack up the kit and call it a day.
What sets it apart.
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Real history, not fantasy
Every artifact in the game traces back to an actual archaeological find. The eras and sites you visit map to places that exist.
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Tool choice is the strategy
Brush, pickaxe, shovel, bulldozer key. Each trades preservation against speed across ground, stone, and bone. Pick wrong on a rare and you'll smash what you came for.
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A journal that remembers
Every dig adds to a growing catalog. Condition matters — perfect, weathered, chipped, destroyed — and each find earns its row in the cross-era condition matrix.
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Storms, time pressure, real consequence
The dig clock counts down. The storm warning music drops a half-step in pitch. You can push for one last find or call the day — but the artifacts you missed are still in the dirt.
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Cozy on the surface, deep underneath
The loop is calm and the music is gentle, but there's a real economy of tool tiers, era unlocks, and condition milestones to climb. Approachable, not shallow.
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Honest about where it came from
AE began as a two-person Brackeys Game Jam 2024.2 entry. What you'll play is the same hand-built shape.
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