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Gold Digger FRVR is a 2D mining game from the FRVR studio, created by Chris Benjaminsen. Where the site's headline game sends you bouncing up a scrolling screen, this one flips the direction: you guide a little miner straight down through the earth, digging your way to gold, ore and gems.

A run is simple and instantly readable. You start at the surface with a column of untouched ground beneath you, and each block you dig away reveals whatever was buried inside it. Most of the time it is dirt, but occasionally it is a glittering nugget or a precious stone — and sometimes it is a rock that shifts and falls the moment you cut it loose.

The tension comes from gravity, not a timer. Dig the wrong block and a boulder drops onto your miner, ending the run. Dig smart and you ride a chain of lucky finds deeper and deeper, watching your haul grow. It has the same bite-sized, one-more-try appeal as Doodle Jump: nothing to download, nothing to learn before you start, and a reason to keep going the second a run ends.

How to play

Press the arrow keys to move and dig in the direction you want to go; on a phone or tablet, drag with your finger to steer the miner. Dirt breaks in a single tap of the pick, while harder material and rocks take more effort, so it is often cheaper to dig around them than through them.

Your goal each run is to pull out as much gold and ore as you can. The money you earn carries over between runs, and you can spend it on upgrades that make your miner dig faster and more efficiently — a sharper pick means less time wasted on stubborn rock and more value collected per run.

Tips

• Look at the rocks above you before you dig a block free. Removing the block that props up a boulder is exactly how it lands on your head.
• Dig sideways around hard rock instead of grinding through it — the gold behind it is rarely worth the time.
• Spend early earnings on digging speed. A faster miner turns a short, lucky run into a deep one.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you like the downward momentum here, Helix Jump drops a bouncing ball through a rotating spiral tower in a one-touch descent, and Hoppenhelm sends a knight hopping down a castle one floor at a time while dodging traps. For classic upward platforming in the Doodle Jump style, Ovo 2 is a precise jump-and-wall-cling challenge.

Gold Digger FRVR fits short, relaxed sessions best — a single dig is a couple of minutes, and it plays as comfortably with a thumb on a phone screen as it does with arrow keys on a keyboard.