Deltadig

Deltadig is a calm archaeology game about a field season in a river delta. You are the recorder of a small expedition camped on a sandy mound between the river channels: tents and drafting tables on the slope, felucca sailboats on the water, palms against the evening sky. Your work is to dig carefully, record everything you lift and build a museum atlas of what the delta has kept. Every dig happens on a square of the excavation plan. The soil lies in layers, from wind-blown sand and river silt down to packed clay, hearth ash and fallen mudbrick. Tap with the trowel to lift a spit at once, or hold the brush to clear a layer gently. The trowel is quick and burns lamp oil; the brush is slow and safe. Fragile finds crack if the trowel takes the last layer above them, so the best squares are opened with patience. When the lamp runs low, the day's work ends and the spoil goes through the sieve. KEY FEATURES ✓ Layered excavation squares — tap to lift a spit with the trowel, hold to clear with the brush ✓ 9 excavation areas, from Palm Terrace to the Mound Summit, each deeper than the last ✓ 96 finds to record: pottery sherds, scarab seals, faience beads, papyrus scrolls, ostraca and vessels ✓ A find card for every object — describe its material, form and ornament, then trace your own field sketch ✓ 16 museum sets, each with a curator's note; completed sets open new areas and grant tool licences ✓ Brush, trowel, sieve and loupe, each with four tiers collected with the field notes you earn by recording ✓ A field journal that writes itself as the season goes on, and 30 field honours for careful work ✓ Hand-drawn look of an archaeologist's notebook: ink linework, graph paper, measured drawings HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the site plan and choose a square in an open area. 2. Lift the soil spit by spit; the loupe shows faint outlines of what lies beneath. 3. Uncover each find whole, ideally pristine, before the lamp burns down. 4. On the find card, describe it, sketch it and file it into the atlas. 5. Complete museum sets to open the next area and better tools for deeper ground. WHY DELTADIG It is a quiet, curious game with nothing to rush and nothing to fight. Progress comes from careful work: clean lifts, accurate descriptions and full sets. Every find is named, measured and described, every area has its own soils and story, and the atlas grows into a real record of a season in the field. There are no timers to pay off and no store to visit — field notes are earned only by recording finds. PRIVACY Deltadig works fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases. Your season is saved on your device only. Pitch the tents, open the first square and see what the delta gives up.