Dig To The Core

Mission briefing

How deep can you go? Dig to the Core is an explosive digging game where every blast takes you closer to the center of the Earth – 6,371 km below your feet. Place your charges anywhere on the rock, press BLAST and watch the ground crumble. Every crater earns cash, and every treasure you blow free earns even more. Spend it on bigger explosives, more charges and stronger blasts – then grab a nuke and open a crater the size of a city. Digging deeper is travelling back in time. Pass rotary phones from the 1920s, knights' helmets, Roman coins, Stone Age axes and mammoth tusks, then T-Rex teeth, Jurassic ammonites and 500-million-year-old trilobites – all the way down to the rock the Earth was born with. You're not alone down there. Your mining crew slides down after every blast to clear the rubble and sell it, and the lamplighter hangs big floodlights to light up the dark shaft. Hire more miners to earn even faster. But the Earth fights back. Every zone the rock gets harder and your craters shrink. Break through granite slabs, set off methane pockets, old wartime bombs and coal-dust chain reactions, and push on through the glowing mantle into the molten core. FEATURES • Physics-based craters – put every charge exactly where you want it • 8 explosives, from Dynamite to the Planet Cracker • 6 historic nuclear bombs, from Little Boy to the Tsar Bomba • 21 kinds of treasure and 11 eras of Earth's history to discover • A mining crew that clears rubble and lights up the shaft • Hazards that explode on their own: methane, old bombs, coal dust, magma and oil • Real Earth layers and real facts – pass the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the Moho and the Gutenberg boundary • Daily rewards with a 7-day streak • Dynamic music that changes with every layer • Plays on desktop and mobile, portrait and landscape – progress saves automatically

Field manual

1. Tap the rock to place a charge. The circle shows how big the crater will be. 2. Place all your charges, then press BLAST – they go off in a chain. 3. Blast next to treasures to collect them. Every crater and every treasure earns cash. 4. Open the SHOP to upgrade: a stronger charge, more charges per blast, a deeper drill, a stronger explosive or more miners. 5. Buy nukes for huge craters. The Tsar Bomba is the biggest of all. 6. Keep going deeper. The rock gets harder every zone, so keep upgrading – and reach the center of the Earth!

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a flexible screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It adapts to both upright and wide screens, so phones, tablets and desktops all frame it sensibly. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Dig To The Core — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Dig To The Core?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Dig To The Core?

Dig To The Core is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Dig To The Core on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It adapts to both upright and wide screens, so phones, tablets and desktops all frame it sensibly.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Dig To The Core is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.