This is a really enjoyable concept. It was great trying to balance the risk of collecting more shovels with just escaping my encroaching doom.
Also, I love the little shovel guy!

Easy and addictive gameplay. Music helps to build up tension. Great game

Really fun and addicting! loved how hard it gets near the white blocks to quickly figure out a way without getting stuck!

Solid little game! Enjoyed my time with it. I like that because you can't jump, you have to strategize your path to get to the shovel upgrades. Great job!

I dig the digging. Cool idea to use line thickness to communicate block hp! 

Had a great time with this one! It definitely took a few tries for me to win, but I enjoyed learning how to route my runs for the best chance of getting to the bottom.

a super interesting mining game with a little bit of platforming influence, simple and fun concept with a really cool main character! the sound and music is good. I definitely feel the panic to dig dig dig :D

Quite addictive and easy to understand !

Simple yet very fun, the idea is well executed, it has the right amount of tension, that mouth chasing you which forces you not to mess up a lot and to think strategically but FAST, which keeps you on your toes all the time.

Good entry for the jam!

Very nice arcade game, easy to understand, and with nice mechanics. Seems easy at first, and even more when you get the first upgrade, but then you actually need to think of the path you are going to take because some blocks are way harder than others.

I tried to dig a white one thinking it would just be a little bit longer than the hard ones and got killed, these ones are tough !

I love how the game doesn't need a tutorial to understand it. It took me a few tries to beat it and reach the bottom. The moment when you start digging after upgrading feels relieving like - good I have a chance now hahahah. Very good game, I like it a lot :)

Simple and stylish, reached the bottom without any problems! It might be good to have a brief pause at the beginning. aybe it makes sense to begin the gameplay after the first “down” input.

Simple game mechanic, really nice execution. I didn't realize at first that the more "filled" blocks meant they were more resistant, but once I got it calculating the path of least resistance felt more intuitive. If I were to critique something I would say the the controls felt a bit slippery, like, it was easy to accidentally hit a block you don't want to and end up losing time but nothing too bad, probably a skill issue on my part. I thought the game would go on forever, so finding the end was a nice surprise I really enjoyed. I also really liked how sad and worried the little guy looked, lmao, being chased by that horror does this to anyone I guess. Great addition to the jam, great job!

I like it! Despite the simplicity of the mechanics, the game is incredibly addictive. I think this would make a fantastic time-killer if you expanded it a bit. For example, it feels like it’s crying out for a movement speed upgrade, because by the end of a level you spend more time just moving around than actually digging. Then you could add different block types, transitions between levels, and so on.

The only thing I didn’t like was the sprite for the danger entity that chases the player. It looks so crude that it’s not even clear what it’s supposed to be. It might as well just be a white rectangle with “!!DANGER!!” written on it.

A proper digging game. I love how simple and pure the mechanic is. I felt doomed the first 3 runs. Then lady luck blessed me with a shovel and there was no stopping me until I hit bedrock. My kind of game. Would really benefit from a leaderboard, or score, for bragging rights.

Quite an interesting experience. I liked it)