Head Office is hiring. No experience necessary. Pickaxe provided. Hard hat sold separately.
Head Office is hiring
Ore Heads is a cozy co-op mining game for up to 16 players. Come over the sea to an island stuffed with ore, sign on with Head Office, and dig your way up from Intern Digger to Chairman of the Boulder.
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Every mine is a sprawling cave system for your crew to explore and dig out side by side. Swing at the same rock and it breaks faster. The richest veins lie farthest from the entrance, so fill your backpack and keep going.
When the shift ends, Head Office sets off the Blast. Everyone inside is carted back to the Mine Station with their haul, the caves are laid out anew, and a fresh mine waits for the next shift.
Start in the Foothill Dig, at the top of the High Street. Level up and the Blast Foreman will clock you into Greystone Deep and the Crystal Caverns, a minecart ride down the mine line. Copper and clay up top, iron and slate further down, glowing crystal deepest of all.
Each mine needs a better pickaxe than the last, so put your wages into sharper picks, bigger backpacks and hard hats that dig faster.
The Ore Buyer at the Mine Station pays cash for your haul. Or take it home: smelt ingots, fire roof tiles, cut stone and saw planks at your own workstations, which keep working while you're away. Procedure manuals turn up in the rock now and then and teach you new recipes. Head Office calls this training.
Every miner gets a plot on the island. Build a home block by block in plaster, timber, brick, stone, glass and roof tiles, cut into stairs, slopes and slabs. Add chests, workstations, lamps and doors, and grow your plot as you go. Your plot and your progress come with you into any friend's game.
Earn XP as you dig and craft, from Level 1 all the way to 100. Head Office hands out a new title every ten levels, and levels open new tools, blocks, recipes, looks and mines.
Over 50 looks for your Square Head: mining helmets, flat caps, top hats, hi-vis vests, monocles, beards and four full Legendary sets. Buy them at the Outfitter, earn them as you level up, or dig up pages torn from the staff catalog.
Day turns to night, storms roll in and rain drums on the roof over your head. The town has shops to browse, a Head Office to report to, and Square Heads who will happily babble at you. No monsters, no dying: just you, your friends and a mountain full of rock.
Read the lore The island, the townsfolk, the creatures and what's coming next.
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Ore Heads is in development. Everything on this page can still change. Head Office thanks you for your continued excavation.
Playtests and a Steam page are on the way. They're announced on our Discord first, or ask us to tell you by email.