Dig Out of Debt

You buried the gold. You forgot where. The debt didn’t.

In Development·PC·Active Incremental / Digging Arcade
Dig Out of Debt — key art
The yard, before
The yard, before
A chest at two metres
A chest at two metres
Down through the roots
Down through the roots
Past the foundation
Past the foundation
Into the stone layers
Into the stone layers
Something older, further down
Something older, further down

About the Game

You are deep in debt, and you remember burying gold in your own back yard. You just don’t remember where. So you start digging — and you keep going, under the lawn, through the roots, past the foundation, into stone, down to an old vault nobody left a map to.

Aim the shovel, dig until stamina runs out, and pull money, gold and chests out of the dirt — along with a lot of things that had no business being buried. Between digs the choice is always the same: spend on power, swing speed, dig radius and luck, or hold the money back for a debt that keeps growing.

Miss a payment and the run ends in bankruptcy. Temporary upgrades are wiped; the permanent ones are not. The next attempt starts stronger and gets further down. Dig, find, upgrade or pay, risk one more hole, go bankrupt, come back stronger.

Features

  • Active digging — you aim every swing, this is not an idle game
  • One pile of money, two jobs: upgrades or the debt
  • A single yard that keeps every hole you dug
  • Deeper layers change the dirt, the light, and what is worth finding
  • Bankruptcy ends the run, never the permanent progression
  • A campaign that ends at the Founder’s Vault — endless mode planned after it

Dev Notes

Dig Out of Debt takes the incremental power curve and puts a shovel in the player’s hands: every swing is aimed, and the numbers only move while someone is digging. The tension sits in one resource doing two jobs — the money that buys the next upgrade is the money the debt is due in.

Incremental SystemsMeta ProgressionRun StructureEconomy BalanceStylized 3DGame Feel

Trailer

Media / pending

Trailer coming soon.

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Factsheet

Title
Dig Out of Debt
Developer
Kadoy / Egor Kostenko
Genre
Active Incremental · Digging Arcade
Platform
PC
Engine
Status
In Development
Release Date
TBA
Website
https://kadoy.dev/projects/dig-out-of-debt
Steam
Not announced yet
YouTube
https://youtube.com/@KadoyDev
Contact
ekostenkodev@gmail.com

Press, interviews, streams, previews — ekostenkodev@gmail.com

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