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|+ Archeological Expedition
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! scope="row" | Genre
| Cozy dig-sim
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! scope="row" | Platforms
| Windows · Linux
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! scope="row" | Engine
| Godot 4.6
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! scope="row" | Players
| Single player
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! scope="row" | Demo
| Available now<br><small>(featured at Steam Next Fest, June 2026)</small>
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! scope="row" | Release
| 2026
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! scope="row" | Languages
| 2 (EN · UK)
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! scope="row" | Origin
| Brackeys Game Jam 2024.2<br><small>([[Archeological Emergency]])</small>
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! scope="row" | Steam
| [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3910670/ Full game]<br>[https://store.steampowered.com/app/4536010/ Demo]
|}

'''Archeological Expedition''' (AE) is a cozy archaeology dig-sim across ten historical eras, made by [[About AKKA|AKKA Game Studios]]. Excavate at real-world historical sites, choose [[Tools]] that trade preservation against speed, and build a [[Journal]] you grow across sessions.

The Steam release ships in 2026. A free demo is available on Steam now.

Excavate artifacts at '''real-world historical sites''' - from Egyptian tomb chambers to Roman ruins, Greek temples, and Bronze Age burial mounds.

Choose your tool carefully. A brush takes its time but preserves what it finds; a pickaxe is fast and brutal. '''Tool choice is the strategy''' - pick wrong on a fragile rare and you'll smash the discovery you came for.

Every find populates a journal you grow across sessions. Catalog the perfect specimens, mourn the chipped ones, return to a site you missed something at. Spend coin between digs on better tools, gentler ones, faster ones. Hit a storm warning and decide whether to push for one last find or pack up the kit and call it a day.

== Game systems ==

* '''[[Tools]]''' - Brush, Pickaxe, Shovel, Bulldozer key. Each trades preservation against speed across ground, stone, and bone. Three tool tiers.
* '''[[Eras]]''' - Ten historical eras spanning prehistory through the medieval period.
* '''[[Locations]]''' - Eighteen real-world dig sites across the ten eras.
* '''[[Artifacts]]''' - 160 artifacts across the ten eras, every one traced to a real archaeological find.
* '''[[Achievements]]''' - For collectors, perfectionists, and people who repair the bulldozer a little too often.
* '''[[Storm warning]]''' - Every dig ends when the storm arrives. Push for one last find, or pack up.
* '''[[Journal]]''' - Your museum. Every find is remembered in the best condition you've ever recovered it.

== Field Notes (key features) ==

# '''Real history, not fantasy''' - every artifact in the game traces back to an actual archaeological find.
# '''Tool choice is the strategy''' - pick wrong on a rare and you'll smash what you came for.
# '''A journal that remembers''' - your best recovery of every artifact, kept forever.
# '''Storms, time pressure, real consequence''' - push for one last find, or pack up the kit.
# '''Cozy on the surface, deep underneath''' - a calm loop that quietly rewards care, patience, and knowing your tools.
# '''Honest about where it came from''' - AE began as a [[Archeological Emergency|two-person Brackeys Game Jam 2024.2 entry]].

== Studio ==

* '''[[About AKKA]]''' - A passionate group of Ukrainian friends making games.
* '''Studio site''': [https://akkadev.games/ akkadev.games]
* '''Steam publisher page''': [https://store.steampowered.com/developer/akka AKKA on Steam]

== External links ==

* [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3910670/ Steam - Archeological Expedition]
* [https://store.steampowered.com/app/4536010/ Steam - Demo]
* [https://akkadev.games/games/ae/ AE on akkadev.games]
* [https://akkadev.games/games/ae-jam/ Original Brackeys 2024.2 jam version]
* [https://www.youtube.com/@akkagamestudios YouTube - @akkagamestudios]

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