Apogee’s Extraction Roguelike “Below the Stone” Excavates New Content Today in “Caves Awaken, Part 2” Update

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New Story, New Missions

Reach untold depths and unearth unimaginable riches as dwarven daredevils dive into a new level of mystery. 

As living, breathing caverns stand guard to protect secrets beneath the rubble, gear up to tackle new daring rescue missions, and lead the underground kingdom to prosperity with new story missions.
 

Peculiar Plant Life + New Friends

Channel dwarves’ inner botanist on a scavenger hunt for newly added plants. Search for rose-from-concrete rarities such as the armor-boosting Blue Cap mushrooms. Watch out for poisonous [poisonous plant name] that can shorten each run by draining health over time.

Explore a new kingdom layout with additional abodes that recently rescued allies can call home, and enjoy quality-of-life updates, including updated combat with dashing, and special attacks.

 Below the Stone, a dwarf-themed extraction roguelike by developer Strollart and publisher Apogee Entertainment, plunders a fresh haul of new missions and puzzles in the “Caves Awaken, Part 2” update launching today on PC via Steam Early Access and GOG. 

Watch the new “Caves Awaken, Part 2” trailer here!

Brains and Brawn Required

Repair and ride advanced machinery to new depths by collecting fragments of the Drill Pod scattered through the caves. Once complete, enhance excavation abilities with the all-new “Crust Busting” upgrade. Earn quick access to deeper underground layers where added sub-biomes feature both peculiar terrain and perilous enemies.

Match dwarven bravery with cleverness that can solve any conundrum, as Below the Stone’s puzzles increase in complexity at every layer. Solve variable-filled brainteasers with added pressure plates, levers, locking doors, and rolling boulders.

 
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Below the Stone is now available on PC via Steam Early Access and GOG, and will unearth a release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X|S later in 2025.

For more information on Strollart’s underground tale of dwarven expedition, check out the official website, and follow their Twitter, and Discord.

For more on Apogee Entertainment, please visit the Apogee website and follow @Apogee_Ent on Twitter.

About Strollart

Founded as a place for a group of friends to come together and express their love of indie games, Stollart looks to break the formula that’s pervasive within the AAA space and build something that can only be found within indie development. Michael Strollart, director, producer, and artist, is joined by Andrew, Karam, Eric, Dean, and Matt in the development of their debut game, Below the Stone, with an eye set on showing what a few friends in a metaphorical basement can build together.

About Apogee Entertainment

Apogee is featured in John Romero’s new book, Doom Guy, along with Masters of Doom, the new FPS documentary, the book Shareware Heroes (2022 release), and many others – because Apogee was a critical player in the rise of the PC gaming, essentially creating the indie scene.

Apogee also funded, produced and published Id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D, the first ever FPS game, and also created pioneering games like Duke Nukem 3D, numerous Duke console games, Prey, Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, and co-owned/co-created Max Payne 1 & 2. These games all earned over $1.5 billion commercially. (Apogee used the “3D Realms” label for many of these releases, but the company was always Apogee.)

The recently renamed Apogee Entertainment, with original founder Scott Miller still at the helm, continues to empower today’s incredibly talented indie developers. Current hit releases include Turbo Overkill and Bread & Fred, along with 10 other games currently in development.

Media Contacts

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