A Game About Digging A Hole™
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 770. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.24, set in July 2026. 16 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 10 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Core Keeper ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Rising World ($14.99, scores 67).
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 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 91 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.
The drop-off
57% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
248 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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.
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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A Game About Digging A Hole™ scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-holeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 23.
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