Cave Dash

Cave Dash is a grid-based digging game in the spirit of the boulder-and-gem classics. Every cave is a hand-built puzzle: dirt you can tunnel through, steel rock you cannot, boulders held up by nothing but the ground you are about to remove, and diamonds that only count once you carry them out.

Collect the diamonds the cave asks for and the exit lights up. Reach it before the clock runs out and the seconds you saved turn into bonus points. Dig under a boulder and it drops the moment you step aside, so plan the order of your tunnels: a boulder resting on another boulder will roll off the side, and a stack you disturb early can seal the only way back.

Four caves get progressively meaner, then the run loops with less time on the clock. You have three lives, arrow keys or WASD on desktop, a d-pad or a swipe on phones and tablets, and your best score is saved in your browser. Press P to pause, M to mute.