Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder Burrows Onto Oculus App Lab Next Week

VRKiwi released Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder via Steam Early Access last September, receiving positive feedback from the few players who left it. Today, the studio has announced that this multiplayer adventure is coming to Meta Quest, arriving on Oculus App Lab and Sidequest later next week.

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The original Cave Digger was a fun little underground miner, encouraging you to dig ever deeper for riches. The sequel takes that initial premise and adds a lot more, including a 4-player co-op mode and a far more lavish dieselpunk world. Of course, there’s still plenty of mining to be done and secrets to discover.

Meta Quest 1 & 2 users not only get to play Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder natively on the platform, they’ll also be treated to a massive content update VRKiwi is rolling out for PC VR players as well. Called Escape from the Valley, the update adds a whole new biome to explore (the title’s third) featuring a dry lake bed where your base camp is located. Underneath lies the nest biome where you’ll come across two new enemy types – stronger than anything yet found in the game.

To help with this your tools are getting upgrades such as explosive damage-dealing changes, improving loot efficiency and general mobility. There will of course be a new ending to discover and two new graphic novel issues to enjoy, continuing the great adventurer Clayton’s story. You’ll need to find the pages throughout the world of Cave Digger.

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In Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder you begin as a prospector starting from a small camp, who needs to explore and excavate valuable resources to afford new items. As you descend deeper into the world you discover that something has already been here before.

Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder is set to arrive for the Meta Quest platform on 17th March 2022, either through App Lab or Sidequest, your pick. VRKiwi goes into more detail regarding the update in the below video. For continued updates on the early access videogame, keep reading gmw3.

Cave Digger Team VRKiwi Reveal Multiplayer Adventure Crystal Raiders VR

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Whilst Finnish developer MeKiwi and its publishing arm VRKiwi are best known for virtual reality (VR) title Cave Digger, augmented reality (AR) studio Nieko has been working with the latter on its latest project. This week the pair have revealed Crystal Raiders VR, a multiplayer adventure due for release later this year.

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Crystal Raiders VR will be an action-adventure videogame where you can explore a medieval castle which is split into 20 levels either on your own or in co-op with three other players. Set to offer a mixture of combat and puzzle-solving, the studio notes this will be a family-friendly experience:
“All game content is suitable for children, with a friendly environment and cruelty-free combat.”

As a role-playing game (RPG) experience you’ll be able to discover treasures, artifacts, and useful weapons to aid the quest plus avatar customisation options with various character models, haircuts, clothing, and accessories. The further into the castle you go the more unlockable cosmetics you find.

To aid the multiplayer aspect of Crystal Raiders VR it’ll feature its own social platform known as “Camp Square”. The kick-off point for any quest, you’ll be able to chat with other players as well as competing in specific activities for leaderboard spots.

Crystal Raiders VR

Crystal Raiders VR will be apart of the Steam Game Festival in February, with a PC VR release currently slated for Spring 2021. It’ll support Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets.

As VRFocus reported back in October, MeKiwi is currently working on Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder with the team saying they want to keep the original’s feel whilst providing a different experience with big new features. An Early Access release is expected in either Q2 or Q3 202. For further updates on both videogames keep reading VRFocus.

Head Back Underground in 2021 With Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder

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Finnish virtual reality (VR) developer VRKiwi launched its mining adventure Cave Digger back in 2018 for PC VR headsets followed by Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR support in 2019. Now the team has revealed its working on a sequel with plans to launch the videogame next year.

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The studio is planning a bigger, more expansive experience for Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder thanks to the originals success as well as new investment funding the team raised to help develop their publishing business.

Cave Digger 2 is going to be better in every aspect, we are adding many big features, we have many new resources and the community has provided us great feedback,” says VRKiwi producer Jani Kaipainen in a statement. “It’s going to be a different experience in many ways than the first Cave Digger but we want to keep the original Cave Digger feel, which is unique. We are going to deliver you Cave Digger 2 Early Access later in 2021. Are you looking forward to mining, treasures and dangers with your friends in VR? We are for sure.”

Whilst Cave Digger is based around mining the gameplay offers a few surprises along the way so that its not all about looking for some shiny gemstones. Set in an alternative western universe with a liberal dose of dark humour, you head down the mine shaft pickaxe in hand to find riches in four underground levels. As you do so the choices you make will determine which of nine endings you’ll get.

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Along the way you can upgrade your tools either making them more efficient or unlocking new ones like the chaos gauntlet. Updates include The Earthly Arrival which added new mysterious looking statues and more interactive elements in the town. In the summer the team also released a standard PC version.

Cave Digger 2: Dig Harder is still in the early stages of production with the team currently expecting the Early Access release to take place in either Q2 or Q3 2021. As further project updates are released, VRFocus will let you know.

Mining Sim Cave Digger Coming To Quest, New Expansion Announced

“Immersive Mining Simulator” can safely be filed under game genres I’d probably never play if they weren’t in VR, so thankfully Cave Digger by VRkiwi is on basically every major 6DOF VR headset available.

Today, the developers have announced that not only is a massive new update dubbed Railway to the Depths releasing soon that adds a ton of new features, but it’s also coming to the Oculus Quest. The game is already available on Steam for all major SteamVR platforms (Rift, Vive, Windows VR, and Index) as well as on Oculus Home for Rift (and soon Quest,) Viveport for Vive, Rift, and Windows VR, plus the PSN Store for PSVR.

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Currently the base game, basically a demo, is available for free. But if you want the full experience, you need to buy the Riches DLC. There’s also an optional paid Supporters Pack that adds access to the OST, your name on wanted posters for players to see, and a gold-plated pickaxe. It’s got great physics and mechanics, plus lots of different types of ore and rewards to unlock. However, it all takes place in a single elevator that goes deeper gradually over time. At least it did until this newest update.

“We felt the game wasn’t finished yet and there was a lot of potential if we let the players wander outside of the elevator,” says VR Producer Jani Kaipainen in a prepared statement. “I think by giving this update for free, the game offers enough exploration and adventure for the price tag. Our sincere thanks go also to Business Finland and Oculus for making this possible. We are excited to announce more VR productions later this year.”

If you buy the Riches DLC then you get the new Railway to the Depths update entirely for free. This includes “many hours” of new gameplay including a free-roaming expanded world, a new ending, a companion to help you carry more riches, and an upgradeable train to traverse the newly expanded world.

Cave Digger: Railway to the Depths releases as a free update to the paid Riches DLC on all platforms on September 19th. You can also join the Discord community to chat with other players and the developers directly.

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Cave Digger Tunnels Into PlayStation VR for US and European Customers

After a PC release in 2018 on Steam for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality, Cave Digger then arrived for PlayStation VR during last week’s hectic Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019, but only for UK customers. Today, developer MeKiwi has announced a wider global rollout for European and North American gamers.

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As the name implies, Cave Digger is a virtual reality (VR) mining videogame that has a few surprises in store. Starting with the ever trusty pickaxe, you head down the mine shaft to dig for new wealth, looking to find all sorts of riches in the rocks. The more you dig the more you’ll be rewarded, which in turn can be spent on new tools.

You’ll be able to upgrade your pickaxe and make it automatic, an energy efficient saw, or if you’re really successful the chaos gauntlet, which is powered by powerful gems found in the cave.

And there are mysteries down in the dark, depending on how you play there are eight endings to uncover some far more devious than others. Additionally, there’s a competitive mode to test your skills against other players.

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“We are very happy to reach players in each store, now in PSVR too, but our excitement doesn’t end here!” said Mekiwi’s COO Jani Kaipainen in a statement. “We are working on a very big expansion to feed the hunger of quality VR content hunters out there and now is a great time to catch this game and get familiar with it!”

Mekiwi has confirmed that the expansion will be free for all Cave Digger owners, regardless of platform. It should lengthen gameplay by several hours whilst adding new mechanics and ways to play the experience. There’s no date just yet for the update release.

Cave Digger is out today for PlayStation VR in North America and Europe. For further updates keep reading VRFocus.

Competition: Uncover a Mine of Possibilities in Cave Digger: Riches

It’s the last day of August and what better way to round the month out than with VRFocus’ forth competition in as many weeks. We’ve given away codes for Carly and the Reaperman, Curiscope AR T-shirts, GNOG, and now it’s another Steam code bonanza. VRFocus has ten Steam keys to giveaway for newly released Cave Digger: Riches, which supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Cave Digger: Riches

Cave Digger is a comedic mining videogame that launched for free back in May. So why are we giving away codes? Well developer VRKiwi has just launched the first DLC for the title, Cave Digger: Riches, adding a bunch of new items, levels, upgrades and more to the experience. Currently retailing for £15.49 GBP on Steam, save yourself some cash and enter our competition below.

Riches are your goal in Cave Digger and to help you uncover them you’ll have to be inventive. Put those muscles to use with a pick-axe, or find enough gems and gold to upgrade and automate it. Or for those times when a manual tool just won’t cut it, a little bit of dynamite can go a long way.

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Standard prize draw entry rules apply: Follow us (or already be following us) on Twitter and YouTube for an entry. Additionally, or alternatively, visiting our Facebook, Google+ or Instagram accounts to get an entry for each. The competition will be open a week. Beginning today and ending at midnight UK time on 7th September, 2018. The draw will be made shortly thereafter.

You can find the app below. Best of luck.

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