Game Fact Sheet
The quick-reference card. Title, tagline, platforms, price, engine — the things press and storefronts ask for, all in one place.
Every layer buys time. Underroot is an idle survival-crafter about digging deep to keep a doomed village alive one more day.
The essentials
| Title | Underroot |
| Tagline | Every layer buys time. |
| Studio / Publisher | Swavvy AB |
| Genre | Idle / incremental survival-crafter, with base-defense and light colony-management |
| Players | Single-player |
| Platforms | Play free in the browser, or download for PC (Windows and Linux) |
| Price | Free / name-your-own-price (pay what you want) |
| Home | Launching on itch.io |
| Website | underroot.se |
| Engine | Godot 4 |
| Idle / offline | Yes — progress continues while you are away |
The one-paragraph description
You are the lone digger of a village at the edge of the world, and the Maw is coming to eat it. You tunnel down for the materials to wall it out, feed and grow the people above, and when you finally fall, your lineage takes up the shovel and keeps digging. It plays in your browser or on your PC, it keeps working while you're away, and it never asks for a cent unless you want to give one.
What sets it apart
- Dig to survive. Mining is the lifeline. Every wall and meal starts with what you haul up.
- Hold the line. Build and reinforce walls against a threat that only grows hungrier.
- Tend the village. Keep fragile people alive. They're the reason you dig.
- Lineage, not game-over. Death hands the shovel to the next generation.
- Idle-friendly. It keeps running while you're away. Drop in and out.
- Free, and yours. Name-your-own-price, in the browser or on PC.
Release status
Launching on itch.io. The current version plays free in the browser and downloads for Windows and Linux.