Beards Go Underground

Beards Go Underground is a roguelike deckbuilding game that combines card-based strategy with a mining theme. Players build a deck using pickaxes, minecarts, tamed beasts, and explosives to dig through layers of rock, triggering chain reactions that clear terrain, defeat goblins, and reveal treasure.

Runs take place on randomly generated maps, with players choosing from a roster of dwarven miners, each offering different playstyles. Over the course of a run, players can unlock more than 100 action cards and various relics that affect deck composition and strategy. Gold collected during runs can be spent at an in-game Inn.

The game’s setting and characters are loosely inspired by the saga “Song of the Nibelungs.” Players control a group of dwarves known as Beards, who venture into mines in search of treasure and their former leader, King Alberich, who stole their gold. The game is being developed by a team of six people and is currently in active development, with plans to adjust balance and content based on player feedback.