Games like Big Dig
If Big Dig is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chicken Blaster, Pocket Aquarium 方寸水族 and Mars Clicker — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About Big Dig: Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game about digging up artifacts to help Mayor Dog win the election! Recover artifacts, grow your museum, and upgrade your tools while building a highway spanning the entire Animal Republic!
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Steam players who put hours into Big Dig also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Chicken Blaster
WHY THIS
Top pick for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Big Dig.
Chicken Blaster is a casual arcade shooter where quick reflexes are the key to victory. Shoot coins, avoid hazards, and see how long you can survive as the chaos ramps up.
Pocket Aquarium 方寸水族
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
Build your own cozy desktop aquarium. Collect dozens of charming fish, shrimp and snails, decorate with plants, rocks, lighting and substrate, and watch your little creatures swim, forage and grow. Unlock rare, dreamlike fish — or set them free to drift across your desktop.
Mars Clicker
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Big Dig.
An idle clicker & incremental game set on Mars. Break crystals, automate your drills, build your colony, and trigger prestige Cycle Resets for permanent Dark Matter upgrades. Ares Consolidated Extraction thanks you for your continued compliance.
Mining Miner
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
There is ore under your feet and that is a problem, because it is not in your pocket yet. Dig, sell, upgrade, hire auto-miners, keep digging.
LITTLE MINER WORLD
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
Mine, build, and explore! Start as a rookie and delve into the depths of the Mega-Mountain in this incremental mining game. Gather materials, construct buildings, and upgrade your miner to unravel the mystery hidden at the core and become the World’s Greatest Miner.
Mine It All!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
Mine everything you see on the screen! A block-mining game focused on upgrades, automation, and endless progression across diverse biomes.
Money Laundering Raccoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Big Dig.
Manage a laundromat for your raccoons to wash dirty money.
Smash Hit Museum
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Big Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
Smash stones. Collect artifacts. Build the world’s most profitable museum. A short clicker game set in the archeology room of a museum. Build up your collection and Upgrade until you break it.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Dig.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Dig.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Dig.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Dig.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Big Dig
- What games are most similar to Big Dig?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Big Dig are Chicken Blaster, Pocket Aquarium 方寸水族, Mars Clicker.
- Who developed Big Dig?
- Big Dig was developed by Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose and published by Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Big Dig.
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