Cinderhold

Cinderhold is a pixel-art mining game built on one simple loop: dig, upgrade, dig deeper. Send your dwarves into the dark, forge what they haul up into better gear, and carve your way down through ever-harder rock toward ever-richer ore. 

Play now: https://play.cinderhold.io (Web is available, but the Windows download offers better graphics and performance)

Point your dwarves at the rock and they do the rest. Smelt their ore into bars, spend the bars on stronger gear, and break through to the layer below where it starts again, deeper and tougher. One more upgrade, one more layer.

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Features

• Around 10 cave layers with procedurally generated terrain, ore veins, and tunnels
• Six tiers of pickaxes, armor, lanterns, backpacks, and weapons
• Real-time smelting with multiple bar recipes (copper, bronze, iron, steel, tungsten, mithril, gold)
• Persistent dwarf XP, named dwarves, and revive system
• Lava (from layer 6) and cave creatures (from layer 3)
• No ads, no microtransactions, no timers gating progress

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Planned

Features in development. No release dates yet.

• Dwarf classes: pick a specialty per dwarf (miner, smith, fighter, scout)
• Biomes: ice caves, ancient ruins, and other layer themes beyond brown rock
• Resonators: place one in a layer to bias generation (more iron, fewer enemies, different rock mix)
• More enemies and weapons

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Community

Discord: discord.gg/zS8uvmvRVz

Made by Rusty Bolt Games. Still in development.