SteamWorld Dig
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 91% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$0.8991% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 11,060
- Critics
- 76 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.89 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5h
- To 100%
- 8.4h 1.7x the story
- Finish
- 21% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 24
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 March 2024
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 101 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.58, a level the record has reached 98 times.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats SteamWorld Dig 2 ($19.99, scores 71).
More about SteamWorld Dig
76 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 474 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 582 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I first played this on PS4 a while back and thought it was a cool & simple mining game, but little did I know this was just the tip of the SteamWorld series' iceberg
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.1-compatible, 384 MB video memory, framebuffer object support, 195 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
SteamWorld Dig scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252410/steamworld-digReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.