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Fool's End

Fool's End is a fast-paced single-player mining game. Dig and destroy everything in your path, outsmart monsters and mine your path to complete each level. There's always another way to escape...

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Developer
Alan Higgs
Publisher
Pickled Cactus Games
Release
February 28, 2024
2 years and 155 days ago
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Positive31 reviews93.5%

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About the Game

Descend into an intense world of chaotic mining and platforming in Fool's End.

Choose to fight your way out with a pickaxe, or use your wits to manipulate the environment and create your own exit. Escape each level in your own way. Everything is destructible....

Take control of the Fool, a degenerate on a desperate mission to navigate his way out of a tangled system of caves. Dig through and manipulate environmental hazards, evade powerful monsters, smack enemies into lava and bombs, and prepare for an adventure in a land of chaos.

  • Blast your way through fully destructible tile-based terrain.

  • High-risk quickfire gameplay.

  • Over 35 hand-crafted replayable levels.

  • Level Editor so you can make and play your own levels.

  • New Daily Challenge levels to play every day.

  • Compete for a place on top of the Daily Leaderboard.

  • Quirky unique enemies with dramatic boss fights.

  • Time trials unlocked after finishing each biome.

  • Bumping dynamic original soundtrack.

  • Secret sauce and beverages.

Fool's End includes an original soundtrack with 16 tracks composed by Chris MacClure.

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