Treasure Hunter Simulator and the surprising allure of metal detecting

New year, new you, so why not try treasure hunting? You and the map, out in the wilds, hot on the heels of a buried artefact no one has seen for thousands of years. You'd be like Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Nathan Drake! Think of the fame and fortune, and the stories!

Oh hang on, sorry, might have misled you - I meant metal detecting.

But it's the same thing, isn't it? There's that guy who got millions of pounds for finding viking relics in the ground, and what about those two blokes who found 70,000 Celtic coins worth around £10m? That's real treasure! And people really call it treasure hunting. It's got such a following there's even now a game, a simulator naturally - because if there's a Street Cleaning Simulator then why not? Literally, it's Treasure Hunter Simulator, and I thought I'd take a quick look.

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