A single needle glinting deep in golden straw
HAYWIRE

There is a pile.
There are needles in it.

Six million strands of hay in a locked warehouse. Your phone is the metal detector. It ticks faster the closer you get.

Dig by feel.
Then build machines that dig for you.

The dial

Hold a finger on the hay. The needle on the dial climbs as you get closer, and your phone buzzes faster in your hand.

The workshop

Everything you dig sells. Trade your hands for a pitchfork, a shovel, a wheelbarrow, a vacuum.

The haystack in the warehouse in afternoon light
Rakes, belts, a scanner and a press around the pile

The machines

Rakes throw hay onto belts. Scanners catch needles riding past. Miss one at the hatch and it goes back in the pile.

Coming in the next update

Simple, or not.

Simple

Dig, find, and build a few machines. Goals lead the way. Good for kids and for ten minutes on the bus.

Advanced

Hay-burning power, splitters, wrapped bales and fuel bricks, trucks with orders. Burn an unscanned needle and it's gone for good.

The haystack at dusk

Clear it, and a bigger one arrives.

Nobody explains why.

Start digging.

Free. Plays offline. Saves on your phone. No accounts, no ads.