Needle Quest: Haystack Secrets

Needle Quest: Haystack Secrets

One needle. Half a million straws. Start digging.

Search a huge haystack from a first-person view. Start with bare hands, pull out one straw at a time, and sell your haul at the farm market. Every upgrade lets you take a bigger bite out of the pile.

The haystack really opens up as you collect: carve little hollows, dig paths, and make tunnels through the hay. Keep an eye out for colored straws, tech crystals, and buried treasures. The needle can be anywhere inside.

• Build your toolkit. Work from a glove to a scoop, pitchfork, shovel, and vacuum, with upgrades along the way.
• Choose your next improvement. Sell hay for coins, improve your storage and collection speed, and increase the value of each straw.
• Bring some engineering. Throw hay-clearing bombs, follow a scanner's echoes, or upgrade a collector drone that gathers hay and flies to sell it.
• Complete your needle collection. Seven campaign haystacks hide seven different needles, each with its own color and eye shape.
• Keep digging. Finish the campaign to unlock free play and choose haystacks with up to five million straws.

Finding the needle completes the haystack. You don't have to collect every last straw.

Controls

Desktop: WASD to move. Click the world to capture the mouse and look around. Hold the left mouse button to collect. Space to jump; E to sell hay or use a nearby shop; Q for bombs; F for the drone; R for the scanner. Esc opens the pause menu or closes a popup; H shows controls.

Touch: Move with the left joystick and drag on the right to look. Use the on-screen buttons to collect, interact, jump, and use gadgets.

About this version

A free browser prototype in active development. Feedback on the pacing, controls, and how it runs on your device is welcome. The drone works during active gameplay; it does not generate offline income.

Progress is saved locally in this browser. This itch.io build does not serve ads; optional ad bonuses are unavailable.

Development disclosure: this game uses AI-assisted code and English text, plus AI-generated artwork, including cover images, UI icons, and the market character portrait.