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Games/Incremental/Find The Needle

Find The Needle

DemoOnly the demo is playable right now.

Dig through a six-million-strand haystack by hand, then automate the search with belts and machines.

Find The Needle

About Find The Needle

Find The Needle starts you in a sealed warehouse in front of an endless haystack. Somewhere inside are the needles. You dig by hand with a metal detector, sell the hay, and buy shovels, wheelbarrows, pitchforks and vacuums to move faster. Then it turns into a factory game. Conveyor belts, balers, scanners and robotic arms take over the searching, hay gets processed into pulp, bales, bricks and paper, and a tech tree with over 300 upgrades keeps the operation growing. It shares Moon Sweepers' start-tiny, scale-absurdly arc and adds real automation on top. The full game is due on Steam in November 2026, and a demo is playable now.

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Incremental
Platforms
Steam
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AutomationIndieUpgradesFactory3DFirst PersonDigging
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Frequently asked questions

Is the Find The Needle demo free?

Find The Needle has a free demo, and that is what this page links to. The full game isn't playable from here yet.

What platforms can I play Find The Needle on?

Find The Needle is available on Steam.

What kind of game is Find The Needle?

Find The Needle is a first-person incremental about digging through a giant haystack by hand and then automating the search with machines.

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