Serenitrove
What is Serenitrove?
Serenitrove is a casual digging adventure about exploring underground for ores, treasures, and unusual finds. Players manage stamina, equip pickaxes, light dark tunnels, and recover encased relics without time limits or enemies.
Serenitrove is a casual digging adventure centered on exploring underground for ores, treasures, and unusual finds. There is no time limit and no enemies, so the loop is simply dig, discover, and repeat while progress builds across sessions. Digging uses stamina, and tougher soil costs more; Power reduces the cost, and equipped pickaxes add Power while wearing down only when they help. Deeper areas get darker, making torches or other light sources useful. Encased relics are recovered by clicking, with soft, medium, or strong pings showing proximity. Autosave is present, but exporting and saving game data is recommended.
How to play Serenitrove
- Move with ASD or the Arrow Keys, and use the mouse for structures and UI elements.
- Dig for ores, treasures, and unusual objects; digging consumes stamina, and tougher soil costs more.
- Equip pickaxes to increase Power and reduce stamina use; durability drops only when a pickaxe helps.
- Use torches or other light sources when deeper tunnels become dark.
- Click an Encased Relic and use soft, medium, or strong pings to judge how close the hidden relic is.
- Press B to return to the surface.
Serenitrove controls
Controls are taken from the developer's itch.io page.
Tips for Serenitrove
- Export and save game data regularly; autosave can be lost if browser cache is cleared.
- Watch stamina costs: tougher soil drains more, while Power lowers the cost to a minimum of 1.
- Use pickaxes where they reduce stamina cost, since durability drops only when they help.
- Bring torches or other light sources when visibility drops deeper underground.
- Use ping strength when clicking Encased Relics: soft is far, medium is somewhat close, and strong is very close.
Serenitrove FAQ
Is Serenitrove free to play?
Yes. The game is described as always free to play.
Are there enemies or a time limit?
No. The game has no time limit and no enemies.
What should be done to protect progress?
Export and save game data regularly to a notes app or text file; autosave can be lost if browser cache is cleared.
How do Encased Relics work?
Click anywhere on the Encased Relic to attempt recovery; soft, medium, and strong pings indicate far, somewhat close, and very close.
Which platforms are supported?
The game is available for HTML5, Windows, macOS, and Linux.
About this game
Read the full developer description
Be sure to export and save your game data regularly!
> Export > Paste it to your notes app or save it as a text file.
Serenitrove has autosave, but data will be lost if you clear your browser cache.
Just you, your little claws (or pickaxes), and the urge to see what's hiding underground. Serenitrove is a casual game where you dig for ores, treasures, and all sorts of weird stuffs.
There's no time limit and no enemies. Just a laid-back loop of dig, discover, and repeat.
Take your time. Serenitrove is meant to be played a little at a time, with progress building across many sessions. Whether you're here for five minutes or a whole evening, there's always another layer to uncover.
Have fun!
Controls & Core Mechanics
Controls
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Movement: Use ASD or Arrow Keys to move around.
Use the mouse to interact with structures and UI elements.
Consumable item hotkeys are 1, 2, 3, & 4 for each slot.
Use the B key to return to the surface.
Certain pop-up messages can be dismissed with the Spacebar.
Switch resource view with Tab (Farfields).
Move between Meadow and Farfields with Q (Farfields).
Holding Shift and clicking on the "+" button loads the max possible amount of fuel/ore in the furnace.
Partial mobile support.
Digging
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Stamina-Based: Digging consumes stamina.
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Soil Toughness: Tougher soil types use more stamina per dig.
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Power: Every point of Power reduces stamina cost by 1 (down to a minimum of 1).
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Pickaxes: Equip pickaxes to increase Power and reduce stamina usage further.
Durability System
Pickaxes:
- Lose durability only when actively helping (i.e. reducing stamina cost).
- If soil is already at minimum stamina cost without a pickaxe, durability is not affected.
- Lose durability only when actively helping (i.e. reducing stamina cost).
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Footwear:
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Durability decreases gradually as you dig.
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Light Mechanics
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It gets darker the deeper you dig.
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Torches or other light sources will help when visibility becomes an issue.
Encased Relics
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Click anywhere on the Encased Relic to attempt recovery.
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There will be a ping based on how close your click is to the hidden relic:
- A soft ping means the relic is far away.
- A medium ping means the relic is somewhat close.
- A strong ping means the relic is very close to where you clicked.
A big thanks to bobbymoli for creating this community wiki with helpful guides and info: Serenitrove Community Wiki
Special thanks to:
Hint: Quartz does not spawn naturally in the Magma layer.
A Tiny Game, a Big Thanks
Thank you so much for playing! Your support, feedback, bug reports, and all the kind words mean the world to me and I'm genuinely grateful for every one of you.
This little community we've built together means just as much to me as the game itself. I truly hope Serenitrove continues to bring a bit of peace and joy into your lives, because you've all brought so much of that into mine.
Serenitrove will always be free to play. If you'd like to support something meaningful, consider adopting or even name a sea turtle through the Oceanic Society: https://www.oceanicsociety.org/adopt/adopt-a-sea-turtle/ (or contribute to any other wildlife-focused organization you care about). If you do, feel free to let me know, it would truly make my day!
Description from Serenitrove on itch.io, by Scoot.
Screenshots
Not listed by the developer: release date, Android/iOS and touch-control details, system requirements. We left these out rather than guess.