Games like A Game About Digging A Hole™
If A Game About Digging A Hole™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Keep Digging, Hill Dig: The Mysterious Signal and Dig to China Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its digging feels satisfyingly tactile, minimalist design avoids distractions and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →A Game About Digging A Hole is a minimalist first-person mining game set in the garden of a newly purchased house. Developed by DoubleBee and published by rokaplay select and Drillhounds, this 2025 indie adventure tasks players with digging into the earth to collect resources, sell them, and upgrade their equipment. The procedural digging system and destructible voxel environments support exploration, idle progression, and achievement-hunting mechanics. Reviewers highlight that the digging feels satisfyingly tactile and that tool upgrades feel substantial and meaningful. Players describe it as atmospheric, cozy, and dark, with the minimalist design avoiding distractions. Available for $4.99 and verified on Steam Deck, the short-length title supports solo play in short bursts.
About A Game About Digging A Hole™: A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
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Keep Digging
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Shares procedural generation, exploration, mining and an atmospheric mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Top pick for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Hill Dig: The Mysterious Signal
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Second-strongest match for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Hill Dig is a digging adventure game where you will have to explore a world full of exciting and challenging puzzles in a variety of different biomes with a custom built vehicule. Explore a 2D voxel world, solve more than a hundred puzzles, improve your vehicule and go always deeper.
Dig to China Simulator
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Third-strongest match for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Dig to China Simulator, is a game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster.
Mining My Own Business
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Ranked #4 for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?
Asteroid Rodeo
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Ranked #5 for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Miasma Caves
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Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Ranked #6 for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Miasma Caves is an explorative action-adventure game. You'll explore a procedurally generated cave system hunting for treasure then try and make it back to town to restock and check in with the villagers before trying to venture deeper.
Another Game About Digging A Hole
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A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet. Collect resources, sell them and upgrade your equipment - discover all available resources!
Exipelago
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Ranked #8 for A Game About Digging A Hole™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
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Terraria
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Shares procedural generation with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
PowerWash Simulator
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Shares a chill mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
Super Motherload
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Shares upgrade system and a chill mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
No Man's Sky
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Shares procedural generation, exploration and an atmospheric mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Dome Keeper
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Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
Lumberjacked
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Shares idle progression, resource gathering and a hypnotic mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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You wake up in a strange cabin deep in a mysterious forest, axe in hand, with only one way forward—through. Chop trees, sell logs, purchase and upgrade gear, and uncover the secrets hidden deep in the forest.
Deep Rock Galactic
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with A Game About Digging A Hole™.
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Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
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A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Frequently asked about A Game About Digging A Hole™
- Is A Game About Digging A Hole™ verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — A Game About Digging A Hole™ is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does A Game About Digging A Hole™ cost?
- A Game About Digging A Hole™ is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Game About Digging A Hole™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Game About Digging A Hole™ are Keep Digging, Hill Dig: The Mysterious Signal, Dig to China Simulator.
- Who developed A Game About Digging A Hole™?
- A Game About Digging A Hole™ was developed by DoubleBee and published by rokaplay select, Drillhounds.
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