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Fossick

Fossick is a first-person incremental game from PB& Games. You dig your way out of a giant rock by firing balls at its walls, and the blocks they break buy you more balls and upgrades. The rock is built from real geological layers with fossils in them, and as many as four people can play together.

Download the trailer MP4, 1920 × 1080, 60 fps, 0:49, 24.2 MB

Fact sheet

Developer
Paul Booth
Publisher
PB& Games, self-published
Demo
3 December 2026, free, on Steam
Release
22 July 2027
Platform
Windows, 64-bit
Price
$7.99
Genre
First-person incremental
Players
1, or 2 to 4 in online or LAN co-op
Controls
Mouse and keyboard, or a gamepad
Engine
Godot, with a C++ core
Language
English
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/5519140
itch.io
thepaulbooth.itch.io/fossick
Studio
pbandgames.com
Contact
hello@pbandgames.com

The fact sheet as plain text

Description

Balls ricochet around the cave and break whatever they hit, and the tonnes that broken blocks pay buy new balls and upgrades. The eight kinds of ball run from the plain Pebble to the Lodestone, which steers itself toward ore.

The rock is older and harder toward the outside, through ten eras from Quaternary clay to Hadean obsidian, and it has fossils in it. A fossil isn't named until the last block next to it breaks. The plesiosaur lies in Blue Lias, where Mary Anning found the first complete skeleton in 1823.

Up to four players can share a rock, each buying their upgrades separately, and broken blocks pay all of them. Nothing can hurt you, and the balls keep digging while the menus are open, though only while the game runs. The Nodule, the first rock, takes about 45 minutes, and the two after it take two to three hours each.

  1. 8balls: Pebble, Comet, Ember, Arc, Firefly, Lichen, Prism and Lodestone
  2. 10eras of rock, from Quaternary loess to Hadean obsidian
  3. 14fossils, from Smilodon fatalis to Anomalocaris canadensis
  4. 3rocks to dig out: the Nodule, about 45 minutes, then the Concretion, then Ten Million, two to three hours each
  5. 87tiles in the Tree
  6. 4players at most, in online or LAN co-op

Loops

Full of light. A Concretion cavern with 300 balls in flight, then Recall brings them all back.MP4 1170 × 658, 11.5 s, 3.7 MB GIF 616 × 346, 4.5 MB
The first volley. The sealed cavity at the start of a Nodule, and the first Pebble breaking its lining.MP4 1170 × 658, 8.0 s, 1.8 MB GIF 616 × 346, 2.7 MB
The Tree. Three more Pebbles bought in the Tree, then Shield, which opens three new tiles.MP4 1170 × 658, 6.0 s, 234 kB GIF 616 × 346, 271 kB
Dug out whole. A Tyrannosaurus skull in the Nodule, named as soon as the last of the rock around it breaks.MP4 1170 × 658, 11.5 s, 4.8 MB GIF 616 × 346, 3.7 MB
Together. Three players firing into the same wall from different sides.MP4 1170 × 658, 8.0 s, 3.6 MB GIF 616 × 346, 3.8 MB

Screenshots

Mammuthus primigenius just after it's dug out, and the tonnes it paid.
Mammuthus primigenius just after it's dug out, and the tonnes it paid. JPG 1920 × 1080, 355 kB
The first shots of a new dig, breaking up the soft rock around the hollow you start in.
The first shots of a new dig, breaking up the soft rock around the hollow you start in. JPG 1920 × 1080, 348 kB
The Tree, where tonnes buy balls and what they can do.
The Tree, where tonnes buy balls and what they can do. JPG 1920 × 1080, 231 kB
The Catalogue's plate for the mammoth, once it has been dug out.
The Catalogue's plate for the mammoth, once it has been dug out. JPG 1920 × 1080, 217 kB
A tunnel dug out through the layers, where the rock gets older the further out it goes.
A tunnel dug out through the layers, where the rock gets older the further out it goes. JPG 1920 × 1080, 281 kB
Late in a game, with all eight kinds of ball in the air.
Late in a game, with all eight kinds of ball in the air. JPG 1920 × 1080, 426 kB

All 6 screenshots zip, 1.9 MB

Capsule art

Fossick, main capsule
Main capsule PNG 1232 × 706, 705 kB
Fossick, header capsule
Header capsule PNG 920 × 430, 383 kB
Fossick, small capsule
Small capsule PNG 462 × 174, 84 kB
Fossick, vertical capsule
Vertical capsule PNG 748 × 896, 594 kB
Fossick, library capsule
Library capsule PNG 600 × 900, 475 kB
Fossick, library hero, no text
Library hero, no text PNG 3840 × 1240, 3.6 MB

All 6 pieces zip, 5.8 MB

Logo

Permission

You may record, stream, broadcast and monetise video and images of Fossick, on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok or anywhere else, for as long as you like. Ad revenue, sponsorships and memberships are yours. There's no revenue share, and PB& Games makes no content ID claims.

The pictures and clips here may be used in articles, videos and store listings. Please don't alter the logo or use it to suggest PB& Games endorses something.

The music was generated with Suno and is cleared for use in videos of Fossick. For any other use, ask first.

AI disclosure

Here's where I used AI. The music was generated with Suno, then picked, trimmed and levelled for the game. About half the sound effects started as ElevenLabs generations that were cut and retuned to fit, and the rest, including the tone under every hit, are synthesised from scratch. I used Claude, an AI assistant, for most of the code and most of the writing, in the game and on its store pages. The translations into 13 languages were made with AI too. No image in the game or on its pages is AI-generated. Every picture, the store art included, is rendered by the game.

About PB& Games

PB& Games is Paul Booth's studio, founded in 2026. Fossick is its second game. The name is a sandwich joke: Paul Booth &, with the blank left for whatever comes next.

pbandgames.com

Contact

hello@pbandgames.com

I'm Paul. Email me for interviews, a key for the full game at launch, or anything else. The demo is free and doesn't need a key. Tell me who you are and where you publish, and I'll write back.