Dig Tales: Relic Puzzle Game

Somewhere under the canyon sand, old things are waiting: a clay pot, a bronze key, a toy horse, a bamboo flute. Each one remembers a moment from the people who owned it. Brush them out of the soil, and their stories come back to life. 40 handmade levels, and it plays offline.

Dig Tales is a relaxing logic puzzle game and a gentle brain game about digging carefully, like a young archaeologist on a quiet dig. You see the shapes of the buried relics before you start. Brush a tile of soil: if it is empty, it shows how many relic pieces touch it. Read those numbers, work out where every relic lies, and uncover them all before your brush strokes run out.

How to play
• Brush a tile to clear its soil. Empty tiles show a number clue.
• The number counts the relic pieces in the 8 tiles around it.
• Use the clues to find every relic piece.
• Finish within the stroke limit to earn up to 3 stars.
• Every level can be solved by logic alone. You never have to guess.

Every relic wakes a memory
When a relic is complete, it wakes a short memory scene, drawn like shadow puppets at dusk. The canyon's music adds an instrument each time more relics wake: santoor, bansuri and tabla.

Things to discover
• Every level has its own named moment: diyas light up in the Cave of Lamps, the sun rises over the canyon, twin boats race in the rain. Fill Pip's Logbook with a sketch of every dig and collect the 8 marks of the Faded Name.
• 40 handmade levels in two chapters, the Sunbaked Canyon and the Monsoon Ruins, from small 4×4 digs to 8×8 sites with hard rock that takes 2 strokes.
• In the Monsoon Ruins the river rises as you dig: tiles under water cost an extra stroke, so dig the low tiles first. Open old stone channels and the water rushes down a line of tiles and uncovers them for you.
• Win each level of the Monsoon Ruins to bring back one line of the boatman's song.
• The pick digs 5 tiles in a + shape at once, but fragile relics like clay pots crack under it. Choose your tool.
• The museum: give every memory its place on the story wall and bring the Home, Market and Rain Veranda rooms back to life.
• Rook and Raya, two rival diggers, set a stroke target on many levels. Can you beat them?
• Finish at par with no hints and the relic shines gold in the museum.
• Night of Lamps: a festival dig of 7 levels that gives Pip a lantern look.

Every day
• Daily Dig: one fresh puzzle each day, the same for everyone.
• Daily gift: coins for 7 days in a row. Missing a day never resets your progress.
• Challenge a friend: make a short code, your friend types it in and plays the same dig. No names or accounts.

Play your way
• Story mode: more strokes and 3 hints per level. Good for first-time players.
• Classic mode: balanced, with 1 hint per level, then hints for coins.
• Expert mode: fewer strokes and no help.
• Make your own explorer: skin tone, hair, hats and outfits, plus looks for Pip the kite-bird and your brush.
• Hindi, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian.
• Large text, reduce motion, and separate music, sound and vibration settings.
• An offline puzzle game: play on the bus, on a flight or anywhere without internet. Your progress stays on your phone.

About ads
Dig Tales contains ads. Reward videos are always optional: watch one to double your coins, get a hint, add 3 strokes or double your daily gift. Players 13 and older may sometimes see a full-screen ad between levels, never during a dig. There are no banner ads. Players under 18 only see non-personalised ads. Players under 13 only see child-appropriate ads, and only through reward videos they choose. There are no in-app purchases.

Questions or feedback: clsaini032032@gmail.com