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The Dark Mine

A 2.5D survival-crafting RPG PvE adventure where you scavenge, craft, survive, and fight your way to the surface

Production Expected 2027 Windows

Lore

The world of The Dark Mine

Locals call it the Slumbering Mine, an 1800s coal pit that should have stayed sealed. A discreet research team went down anyway, chasing strange heat, odd pulses, and a mineral vein in the rock that did not behave like mineral.

Ten themed levels stacked into the earth. Most of the doors still mean it.

They named it Erebora, dark flora, after Erebus. Alive and inert at once. Growing, and somehow still.

The collapse

The only elevator died. The rest of the way is on foot.

The work was to understand it, then to control it. That did not last. The mine went under quarantine. Stone came down. Anyone still inside was left to the dark.

Down in the dark

What remains is ten themed levels stacked into the earth, each a knot of sublevels you walk, climb, and double back through as keys and tools open old routes.

Light is not a mood. Candles and lanterns are how you see.

A camp is a candle, a shelf, and a place to breathe.

Buried scrap, stalking things, and traps that sit quiet until you step too close. Camps can be scratched out as a place to breathe, patch up, and go down again.

Notes still talk, if you live long enough to read them.

The last four

A few of them are still on protocol. A few of them still talk.

Four of them are still moving. An AGI unit on the lowest floor, built to work the dark. An engineer two levels up, sent to keep that machine running. A field scientist in the lab. A soldier in the militarized zone.

Erebora does not stay in the vein. It eats stone, metal, and flesh, and the things that hunt you take on more of it the farther the outbreak runs. The way out is up, through the Prime Erebora, the source of the rot.

Showcase

Watch The Dark Mine

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Screenshots

From the mine

Soundtrack

Music from The Dark Mine

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Main Theme

Grey Lantern Games · The overture for the descent.

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From the game

Salvage and gear

Items and characters from The Dark Mine. Not screenshots: the kit you carry into the dark.

  • Player character from The Dark MinePlayer
  • Slime enemy from The Dark MineSlime
  • Cargo crate from The Dark MineCargo crate
  • Storage chest from The Dark MineStorage chest
  • Repair kit from The Dark MineRepair kit
  • Flare from The Dark MineFlare
  • Candle from The Dark MineCandle
  • Gold stack from The Dark MineGold
  • Minecart from The Dark MineMinecart
  • Grapple hook from The Dark MineGrapple hook
  • Dynamite from The Dark MineDynamite
  • Sidearm from The Dark MineSidearm
  • Fuel can from The Dark MineFuel can
  • Blueprint from The Dark MineBlueprint
  • Light bomb from The Dark MineLight bomb
  • Battery from The Dark MineBattery

Features

What you do

  • Scavenge the mine for resources
  • Craft tools and supplies to keep going
  • Survive the dark as you push upward
  • PvE combat: fight your way to the surface
  • 2.5D RPG adventure
Survival Crafting RPG PvE 2.5D

Development log

Latest updates

All development logs

  1. Showcase video

    A first look at The Dark Mine is up on YouTube: scavenging, crafting, and the climb back to the surface.

  2. Score from the depths

    The Dark Mine soundtrack is on the game page: exploration themes, battle cues, and a few warmer rooms under the mountain.

  3. Survival-crafting loop

    Work continues on the core loop: scavenge what the mine gives you, craft what you need, and stay alive long enough to climb.

  4. The climb to the surface

    The Dark Mine is a vertical PvE adventure. The fantasy is simple: go down into the dark, then fight your way back up.

  5. Ten levels into the dark

    The mine is shaped as ten themed levels stacked into the earth — each a knot of sublevels you walk, climb, and reopen with keys and tools.

  6. Light is survival

    Candles and lanterns are not mood dressing in The Dark Mine. If the light goes out, you stop seeing — and the mine does not wait.