The Dig®
Fair · Narrative · 2009
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 2 MB - PCI Graphics Card, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 48 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition ($9.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ ($9.99, scores 63).
None of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Dig® scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6040/the-digThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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