Pyramid Builders

Start with a shovel and turn clay into a monument in Pyramid Builders. Dig at the pit, mould bricks, leave them on the drying rack and carry them to the construction site. You can place the bricks yourself in first person, then recruit a crew to help move the work along.

Move, Dig and Carry

On desktop, WASD or the arrow keys move, the mouse changes your view, Shift runs and Space jumps. Hold the left mouse button to dig, take bricks and lay them. Keys 1-5 or B open the shop, Q sounds the rally horn and E operates the brick trolley. G accesses the Pharaoh's chest, M controls sound and Esc pauses. The game also supports phones and tablets, with a left joystick for movement.

Follow the Brick Supply

A finished section depends on several earlier jobs: clay has to be dug, shaped, dried and transported before a mason can use it. When progress feels slow, look along that chain and identify which step is waiting. That gives you a concrete reason to consider a worker or upgrade, instead of buying help without checking the current job.

The five worker types are diggers, porters, moulders, brick carriers and masons. Sixteen upgrades and buildings include crew housing, while equipment includes a trolley and catapults that send bricks upward. Use the rally horn when you want the crew to hurry. A day-and-night cycle brings an unusual option: an Alien Pact that keeps the building work going through the night.

There are seven monuments before a new cycle with double pay. Random events, crew styles and the Pharaoh's chest add other choices, and progress saves automatically. Read the next client's order when a monument is collected; the premise goes beyond building only one pyramid.

If you enjoy working directly with materials in first person, Eggcavation offers a different task: chip a giant egg, sell the shards and choose tools. Its goal is excavation and hatching, while this game builds a supply chain toward finished monuments.