Really love the style! I was a bit confused at the digging mechanic, does it end in a failure every time if you dig too much? Also I found the 3 moves a bit limiting, usually I would end up with no interesting places to visit. Overall amazing game, good job!
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Thank you for playing!
Whenever you run out of moves you can go to camp and then rest at the campfire! You can then continue your expedition on the next "day" where you get another 3 moves. If you go back to town (shop) the expedition completely resets!
Digging is all about pushing your own luck, the longer you keep digging the more likely you are to find the most valuable treasures. But the chance of digging up cursed items (which drain your stats, can lead to game over if any of them reaches 0) increases as well!
Yeah things could definitely be a bit more clear.
Loosing all your men is probably the most frequent way a game over happens. While digging it's probably the skull that got you. That one is very rare and only starts appearing once you digged down quite far but it kills 20 of your guys. Hope you have a bit more fun the second time around :)