EXCAVARA // PRESS KIT

YOU DON'T PRESS PLAY. YOU DIG THE SONG.

EXCAVARA is a browser and mobile music game where a song is buried underground: you dig down through the earth and every layer unlocks another stem, until the whole track plays at the core.

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FACT SHEET

DEVELOPER
TMSTRY, Belgium
PLATFORM
Browser · desktop and mobile · installable as an app
STATUS
Live since July 2026 · 24 drops · 9 artists
PRICE
Free to play · limited editions claimable on Base
ONE DESCENT
3 to 5 minutes · best on headphones
PLAY
excavara.com/dig

WHAT IT IS

EXCAVARA is an independent music platform disguised as a mining game. An artist buries a track as a world: the song's stems become strata, the artwork becomes the walls, and whatever the artist chooses becomes the collectibles hidden in the rock.

You start at the surface with a muffled signal and dig. Every stem arrives at its own depth, so the mix opens up as you sink, and the full track only plays in the vault at the core. Along the way the artist talks to you through the rock: relics, photographs, texts on your phone, a signature cut into the wall.

Twenty-four tracks from nine artists are in the ground, each with its own world, collectibles and trophies, and a limited on-chain edition for the first excavators to reach the bottom. It runs in any browser, on desktop and on a phone, with nothing to install.

ONE SENTENCEEXCAVARA is a browser and mobile music game where a song is buried underground: you dig down through the earth and every layer unlocks another stem, until the whole track plays at the core.
FIFTY WORDSIn EXCAVARA, songs are buried. Each drop is a vertical mine with a record at the bottom: the drums play at the surface, the bass joins at thirty metres, the vocals near the core. Dig, collect what the artist buried for you, reach the bottom, and hear the song whole.

HOW IT PLAYS

ONE DESCENT ≈ 3 TO 5 MINUTES
  1. Pick a drop: every record in the crate is a different world.
  2. Dig down. The drums are already playing at the surface; the rest is buried.
  3. Each stratum unlocks a stem. Hold a stem on the HUD to hear it solo.
  4. Collect what the artist buried: relics, polaroids, one-of-ones, a text on your phone.
  5. Reach the vault at the core, hear the song whole, and claim one of the first copies.

TRAILERS & FOOTAGE

MP4 · H.264 · FREE TO USE IN COVERAGE
FINAL CUT IN PROGRESSThe trailer exists and is being cut to length.
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TRAILER · 60 SECONDS16:9 · 1920×1080 · H.264 · stereo
FINAL CUT IN PROGRESSThe trailer exists and is being cut to length.
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TRAILER · 30 SECONDS16:9 · 1920×1080 · H.264 · stereo
FINAL CUT IN PROGRESSThe trailer exists and is being cut to length.
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VERTICAL · 15 SECONDS9:16 · 1080×1920 · for Shorts, Reels and TikTok
FINAL CUT IN PROGRESSThe trailer exists and is being cut to length.
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RAW GAMEPLAY16:9 · 1920×1080 · no music bed, game audio only

SCREENSHOTS

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The crate: every record is a world to dig intoThe crate. Every record is a world.1920×1080Digging through the first strata of NOBODY'S GOING BACK INSIDE, the drums already playingThe first strata. The drums are already playing.1920×1080THE FIRE DIVIDE at three hundred metres: the guitar enters, collectibles in the wallThree hundred metres down. The guitar enters.1920×1080A comic-book world: HEX-HUSBAND by Morrwyn of House ElarokhHEX-HUSBAND. A whole comic book, underground.1920×1080

WORDMARK

COURIER NEW · THE V IS THE CORE

Please keep the wordmark on a dark background and leave the V in its amber. Screenshots and footage on this page may be used freely in coverage of EXCAVARA. The music and artwork in each drop belong to their artists; the game may be shown, the tracks may not be redistributed on their own.

CONTACT

PRESSTMSTRY
via the contact form
SOCIALinstagram.com/dig.excavara
FOR ARTISTSWhy bury a track on EXCAVARA