Overview

Rocks’n’Diamonds is a free, open-source puzzle game and level engine by Holger Schemel (Artsoft Entertainment), first released in 1995 and still actively developed more than thirty years later. If you know Boulder Dash (Commodore 64), Emerald Mine (Amiga) or Supaplex (PC), you know what Rocks’n’Diamonds is about — it plays all of those classic tile-based games and many more, reading their original level files.

Key Features

• Plays the classics — Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Supaplex levels, plus Sokoban, Diamond Caves, Puzznic, Snake Bite and other sets from the R’n’D jue level collections.
• Built-in level editor — create and edit your own levels in any writable (“user”) level series, directly inside the game.
• Huge bundled content — thousands of levels across dozens of level series ship with the game, with more available from the levels & artwork page.
• Local multiplayer — two-player team mode, played with the keyboard or with joysticks and gamepads.
• Music, sound and a high score server — background music loops plus an online high-score list for comparing results with other players.
• Runs almost anywhere — the same game on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android, and lightweight enough for old machines.

Why Use It

It is the definitive way to play a whole era of puzzle games: one GPL-licensed engine, maintained and expanded continuously since 1995, with no ads, no DRM and no account required. Current stable release is 4.4.2.4 (3 August 2026).

Use Cases

• Playing classic Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Supaplex levels on a modern machine.
• Designing and sharing your own puzzle levels with the built-in editor.
• Local two-player games on a shared keyboard or with gamepads.
• Retro gaming on low-powered hardware — a light 2D engine that runs on almost anything.

Platforms

Official builds for Linux, Windows (32- and 64-bit installers and plain ZIP archives), macOS (Universal binary) and Android; an unofficial iOS port (4.3.2.0) is also available. Legacy builds exist for PowerPC Macs and DOS.

Licence

Free and open source — the game engine is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 (© 1995–2026 Artsoft Entertainment, Holger Schemel). The bundled artwork, levels and music ship under their own terms, which is why Debian packages the game in contrib rather than main.

Similar Tools

• Pingus — free and open source, another classic-style puzzle game in the directory.

Website

artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds · downloads for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android