$9.89 (−34%)DIG
Dig a backyard hole with up to seven friends, craft what you find and ship it around the world.
Is DIG worth it?
DIG is worth it if…
- you want a low-pressure game to unwind with after a long day
- you like digging, collecting and crafting loops with a clear next goal
- you want something to play with friends, from one crewmate to a full team of eight
- you enjoy gentle stories told through letters more than cutscenes
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A hole with no clock on it
Nothing here rushes you. There are no timers and no punishing failure: the hole waits, the tools wait, and the next layer of soil is not going anywhere. You dig at your own pace, chat with your crew while you work, and stop whenever the crate is packed or the kettle is done. The yard stays sunny, the animals stay in it, and the mailbox fills up on its own. It is the kind of game where an evening is measured in layers dug and letters read, not in objectives missed.
From bare soil to a working workshop
The dig site is fully destructible and layered, so every block crumbles under your shovel and the hole gets deeper and richer as you go. Coal, copper, iron, quartz, gold, emeralds and fossils glitter in the walls, and rolled-up blueprints hide down there for things nobody makes anymore. Back at the workshop the finds become something useful: planks at the saw, glass and bricks in the furnace, then copper kettles, lanterns, hourglasses and gramophones from your blueprints. Thirty blueprints to find means the digging always has a next thing to chase.
One hole, up to eight shovels
DIG is built for a crew: online co-op for 1 to 8 players, with lobbies, invite codes and drop-in join, so a friend can climb into the hole mid-session. Built-in voice chat means you can talk while you dig without alt-tabbing to anything. And when the work pauses, there are 12 emotes for celebrating a fossil or a particularly satisfying chunk of stone.
Customers who write back
Twenty-seven customers order from your little yard, and they are the best part of the mail. Taking an order, packing the crate on the dock and calling the cargo ship stops feeling like a delivery loop and starts feeling like correspondence.
Thirty farmers and a yard worth keeping
There is more to unlock than blueprints: 30 farmer characters to unlock while you dig, plus a wardrobe for dressing yours up. The yard itself is part of the game, with animals to have around, a mailbox to check and a workshop that grows from a few machines into a proper production line. Character customization and a colorful, stylized look keep it all friendly, and full gamepad support plus 22 languages mean almost anyone can join the crew.
