Double or Rubble

Help an old man get his mine back.

Double or Rubble is a relaxed, colorful mining game with a crooked heart. Swing your pickaxe, cut stones open on the beat, and bet what's inside against the smuggest card sharp in the quarry, because the only way to free the little stone-and-crystal creatures sealed in his capsule machines is to beat him at his own game.

"Six Folk make a wall. Bring the walls home, and this mine is ours again."

— Wick

Wick lost his mine on a bet. He's too worn out to swing a pickaxe any more, so he's hired you. He's kind, he's scared, and he isn't telling you everything about how it happened.

The mine's old residents, the Folk, are sealed away inside the capsule machines of Jesper Crooke, the House. He's charming when he wins and considerably less charming when he doesn't. Win them back one at a time, bring them home to the Hollow, and find out what really happened at that table.

• Mine the quarry. Break stone seams, crystal veins and jade lodes for coins and stones. Hire a crew to keep swinging while you're busy, and run your mine day by day from the Mining Office.

• Cut on the beat. Take your stones to the cutting bench and strike the rings in time with the music, across sixteen rhythm charts. Every perfect cut pays off.

• Bet the House. Three shuffled stones: your win, Jesper's win, or a tie. Win, and he matches every core. Lose, and he keeps the lot. Push your luck or play it safe. Double or rubble: it's all in the title.

• Free the Folk. Pull the capsule machines and see who comes out. Collect keychains, pickaxe skins (some of them animated), and the stories behind every Folk in your Book.

• Take a seat at the card table. Build a team of Folk cards, set your lanes and roll the dice against Wick, your contract clients and Jesper himself. Win packs, spare cards and rewards as you climb the levels.

• Rebuild the walls. Six Folk make a wall. Fill four walls, light the Portal with Lodelight, and cross into the Hollowlands.

• A warm, colorful world of illustrated cutscenes, from the bus ride to the shack to the Portal, with a story that rewards paying attention.

• Bets that matter: the cutting bench, the House, and a card game in Jesper's Den where nothing is quite what it seems.

• A growing village. Every Folk you free comes home to the Hollow, a warm cave town that fills up as you play. Collect keepsakes from the Skin Machine and watch them turn up around town.

• A deep skill tree, a crew to hire, contracts to take, and mining days with real payoffs.

  

• The Hollowlands: a final area full of puzzles and surprises.

• A Book of every Folk you've met, and an achievement for nearly everything you can do.

• Play at your own pace, with no pressure, no real-money purchases, and no real-money gambling. Everything is paid in the game's own coins.

For people who like gentle games with a little mischief.

Double or Rubble is made by DigiKerr Games, a small independent studio. If you've ever wanted a game that feels like a quiet afternoon with a very suspicious cardsharp, welcome to the camp.