If you know someone who has worked in the coal mining industry, you’ll have heard just how hard it is to work there. And that’s before there are any horror monsters trying to kill the miners! Yes, that is indeed the plot of Coal Duty by Corecrew Games. You and three of your buddies have to survive a mine and do your job…while monsters attempt to kill you. Fun times! The game will be featured in the upcoming Steam Next Fest, but the game will release a demo on October 8th and has Steam Early Access available right now for you to check out so you can see the hilarious scares that are coming your way. Here are some details:

“Every shift drops the crew into a freshly generated mine with one instruction: meet the State coal quota. Push deeper and the haul improves, and so does the company. Tickets earned on delivery are the only currency the State recognizes, and whatever a crew chooses not to report stays between them and the dark. Between shifts, miners return to a persistent hub with barracks, a workshop, a tavern and a smuggler working out of a restricted area the State does not officially acknowledge.

It is also where escape plans get made, and there is more than one way out. The demo is a real slice of the core loop. Crews get a full run of six trips into the Medium mine floor, enough to take on two quotas, along with a first look at the creature roster and the hub between shifts. The Easy and Hard floors, the rest of the creatures, the escape machine and the game’s multiple endings are held back for Early Access.”

If you’re ready to dig deep (See what we did there?), then you’ll want to jump into the madness now, and be ready for more when the demo drops next month.