Voxel exploration · Built with AgentGrid

Vlad the Mad Scientist

Dig. Discover. Detonate. Distill. Guide a magnificently reckless scientist through a destructible comic-gothic cave in search of four impossible ingredients.

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Vlad drilling through a blocky gothic cave above a giant lunar organism — The creative north star: dangerous caves, theatrical light, and science with no sense of restraint.

Distinct cave biomes

Traversal gadgets

Ultimate elixir

Made on the canvas

The cave is a machine you can take apart.

AgentGrid workers built the seeded voxel world, third-person controls, gadgets, creatures, hazards, touch UI, audio, progression, and final victory loop as coordinated parts of one game. Every expedition turns the cave into a route of your own making.

Excavate your own route

Drill through voxel rock, plant blast charges, scan hidden pockets, and grapple across the spaces you create. Gas, falling debris, and acid make every shortcut a risk.

Go deeper than is sensible

Descend from the Root Cellar into Prismatic Geodes and the Fungal Distillery. Friendly glowmoles reveal ore while prism bats and flask slimes object to the intrusion.

Bank, brew, descend again

Return volatile ingredients to the brass elevator, spend crystals on excavation and illumination upgrades, and assemble the four-part recipe for the Ultimate Elixir.

Field notes from below

Real captures from the playable build: the brass elevator, voxel cave layers, progression laboratory, and the experiment’s improbably successful conclusion.

The Misadventures of Vlad the Mad Scientist title screen with Play and How to Play buttons — The experiment begins with a warning disguised as a title screen.

Vlad standing beside the ornate brass elevator at the voxel cave entrance — The brass elevator is home base: start an expedition, bank loot, and return to the laboratory.

Vlad drilling a pale purple crystal seam in the dark Prismatic Geodes biome — Headlamp, drill, and glowing minerals turn the Prismatic Geodes into a hunt through darkness.

The laboratory upgrade screen showing excavation, illumination, and mixology tracks — Banked crystals become stronger drills, larger scanners, extra charges, and faster fuses between expeditions.

The Ultimate Elixir is Complete victory screen with expedition statistics — Four ingredients later: science wins, and the cave files a complaint.

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The elevator is waiting. The cave has already made a mistake.

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