A Game About Digging A Hole™
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.77/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 20,403
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.8h
- To 100%
- 4.3h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 17 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $2.74 October 2026
- Sale every
- 30d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 69 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 8% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
17 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Core Keeper ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Orebound ($24.99, scores 31).
More about A Game About Digging A Hole™
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 39 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 85 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 4,686 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.8 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.4 times as long.
At 1.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
It's a game about digging a hole. The contents match the description on the tin. It won't change the world, but it will fill an afternoon.
2 more reviews
Got about 2 hours of solid, fun, mindless gameplay. Not enough upgrades, but still fun.
This game scratches an itch in my brain that most others can't reach. Had a really good time with it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 770. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Game About Digging A Hole™ scores 73/100 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/3244220/a-game-about-digging-a-holeReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.