Goblin Industries

A pixel-art factory game in a goblin cave. Dig out the rock, build the works, and keep the crew fed, rested, paid and armed while you bore ever deeper.

Dig in

Hack through the rock with your own pick, plant Mining Posts by the iron, copper and coal for your goblins to dig, and set Crystal Drills on the glowing crystal. The better a goblin mines, the longer it digs. Every wall you knock down is room for another machine.

Build the works

Hoppers, belts, arms, smelters and factories. Your miners tip their ore into the Hoppers by their post, the Hoppers chute it onto your belts, and the plates, wire and gears roll in.

Run the camp

Every goblin needs a bunk, a meal and a nap. Grow glowing mushrooms, cook soup in the camp pot and hand out duties: miner, cook, farmer, harvester, animal handler, engineer, crafter, guard, driver, warband or porter. Hire more at the Workers' Station, each with its own skills and nature, and keep the purse full for payday: a goblin left unpaid walks out. Banners and a fighting pit keep spirits up.

Hold the camp

Knights, mages and priests camp out in the dark, tougher the further out you go, and fight anyone who comes near. Left be, their camps grow bold and send parties roaming your way, some battering through your wall. Forge swords, axes and spears, stock the racks and let your guards and archer towers see them off, or call up a warband and wreck their tents for the loot. Fallen goblins haunt the camp a while, unless a Hospital brings them back. Rather be left alone? In a sandbox camp they keep to their own fires.

Raise a herd

Down at 250m, wild fire cows spit fire: knock one down and strap it into a cryo-harness to tame it, and harness its calves before they grow up wild. Fence in your cows and chickens, a pen for each: they can't stand each other.

Trade with the surface

The surface goblins have forgotten how to work, so the broker's contracts pay gold for whatever your camp can make: fill one in time and the next is bigger and better paid. A Trading Post sells off the spare, and the gold pays the wages.

Study the plans

Most machines, recipes and belt heights are studied at the Library first, paid in gems made from your own crystal, so the camp opens up bit by bit.

Lay the rails

Track, stations and a steam engine with a goblin at the wheel. Haul ore and rock by the cartload, and hang a passenger cart on the back so the crew can commute.

Bore deeper

Feed the Factory Drill what it asks for and it bores the camp down to the next floor: hotter, with richer ore. Keep the floors above running and link them with lifts and tunnels. At the bottom, pump up the core's molten gold and cool it into gold rocks.

Better with friends

Co-op for up to 4. Friends drop into your camp at any time, straight from a Steam invite.