Dwarfs and Dynamite

A crew of dwarves has dug too deep. Every pixel of the cave around them is real: sand slumps, water floods, oil burns, and dynamite blows real craters. Hand out the right tools and get them home.

A pocket of gas in the cave goes up in a huge fireball, and the blast and debris rain down past the crew
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Every pixel is real

There are no scripted set pieces. Every grain of sand, drop of water and lick of flame is simulated, so the cave reacts to whatever you do, including the things you didn't mean to.

A torch lights a pool of oil; the fire races along it and catches a wooden walkway
Fire

Light it and step back

Oil floats on water and burns. Wood catches and turns to ash. Smoke rises, steam rains back down, and lava cools into obsidian. Fire is a tool, and a danger to the crew.

A dwarf throws a grappling hook, swings across a chasm on the rope, and the rest of the crew follows
Ropes

Swing for it

Ropes and planks are physical too. Throw a grappling hook into the rock and swing across a chasm, pull a drawbridge down, or fire a dwarf out of a cannon. (Yes, really.)

The blast clears the cave and the crew walks on through the dust
Dynamite

Make your own way

Blasts carve real craters and throw real debris. Dig under a sand pile and it collapses. Breach a dam and the cave floods. Most levels have more than one way through.

What the cave is made of

Sand Water Oil Lava Obsidian Wood Steam Ice TNT Gold Rock

A puzzle game that lets you off the hook

Classic crew-rescue puzzles, with the modern comforts they never had.

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Levels

From breaking your first ground to multi-step heists through flooded mines, lava works and collapsing galleries.

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Tools

Pickaxes and shovels, torches and dynamite, gliders, balloons, grappling hooks, and a cannon.

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Rewind anything

Scrub the timeline like a video. Jump back to just before it went wrong and try again from there.

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Show me how

Stuck? Watch a solution play out, then try it yourself. Or find a better one.

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Build your own

The Workshop has a full level editor: carve the cave, pour the materials, rig ropes and pulleys, and set the challenge.

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Plays anywhere

Runs in your browser, including on a tablet: tap a dwarf to hand it a tool, pinch to zoom.

The tools: Rope, Grapple, Chute, Glider, Balloon, Dynamite, Foreman, Mason, Ladder, Bridge, Pickaxe, Drill, Shovel, Torch, Spores, Frost, Mortar, Flamer, Rocket, Hose, Powder, Charge, Cannon, Launch, Shield.

Play it now

No download, no sign-up. It runs right here in your browser and saves your progress as you go.

The Dwarforia title screen, with the crew marching past as sand and water rain down ▶ Play

Works best in a desktop browser with a mouse. Dwarforia is in development, so expect changes.