# Strata: Fossil Dig & Museum — Idle archaeology in pixel art

> Idle archaeology in pixel art (iPhone/iPad app by le duc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/strata-fossil-dig-and-museum/id6829362271 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [le duc](https://appshunter.io/developer/1444889822)
- Category: Games, Casual, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 36 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, European Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Vietnamese
- Released: 2026-11-06
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Strata?

Strata is a pixel-art digging game about time. Each dig site is a slice of ground: the top rows hold things lost last century, and the deeper you dig, the older the finds get, past the old empires and the ice age down to the dinosaurs. Everything you bring up goes into a museum you build yourself.

HOW IT PLAYS
Tap a square to swing your pick. Each swing costs stamina, and a trip ends when it runs out. Clay takes more swings than soil, hard rock needs a drill, and a find comes out only once every square of it is clear. Clean it in the workshop, put it in a case, and visitors start paying at the door.

WHAT IS IN THE GAME
• Ten dig sites, each with ground of its own: a river delta that floods, an old city built on itself, desert sand, jungle roots, ice, volcanic ash, a shipwreck on the sea floor, a hill of giant bones and a crater.
• More than 300 finds in pixel art, from a tin car to a raptor claw. Complete a set and every ticket is worth more.
• Tools to buy: a wide shovel, a drill, a detector that buzzes near buried finds, a sonar, a lamp for the dark layers and dynamite.
• A museum that grows room by room, with rooms for each era, a gift shop, a café and a critic who comes to judge it.
• Staff to hire: a guide, an archaeologist who digs while you are away, and a restorer.
• Expeditions to send, studies paid for in scraps of old writing, and stone tablets to read.
• A story: someone left a tin plate at the bottom of every site, and the ten plates lead to a door.
• When the dig slows, start a new season and keep everything in the museum. Later, eras and eons turn the ground itself over.
• A bottomless pit, floor after floor, for your deepest record.
• A pit of the day that is the same for every player.

FREE TO START, NO ADS
The first three sites are free to play to the end. The Full Game, bought once, lets you dig on into the other seven sites (you still reach each one by digging) and opens the bottomless pit. Double Tickets doubles the ticket price for good. Money never buys a find: every one of them is dug up.

Strata plays in English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://legal.lookbookai.app/strata/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Double Tickets | $2.99 | one-time |
| Full Game | $4.99 | one-time |
| Chest of gems | $4.99 | one-time |
| Vault of gems | $19.99 | one-time |
| Pouch of gems | $0.99 | one-time |
| Supporter Pack | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Strata safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Strata.

## Is Strata legit?

Strata: Fossil Dig & Museum appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Strata is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-11-09

• On the map, tapping a site's land now opens it, as its flag does.
• Once a site's finds are in, gems can pay the coins its digging permit still lacks.
• A set card puts the whole set on show in one tap, and says where its missing finds are dug.
• Once a pit has given up every relic, the dig says so and you can climb out to a new one.
• The view no longer jumps down to the shaft's bottom while you dig near the top.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-11-08

• Visiting another museum now shows each set it has completed, with that set's ticket bonus.
• Fixed cloud save forgetting your account when the game saved right after opening.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-11-06

No release notes.

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