
SteamWorld Dig
Image & Form
Taste attributes: actionadventurerobots/ai/spaceimaginarylinearemotionally undemandingall consuming quest
Boxlist takeA larger-than-life platformer, low-key rather than stirring. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
IGDB rating
77 / 100
242 ratings
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About This Game
SteamWorld Dig is 2D a platform game that revolves around mining for resources and ores. The objective of the game is to investigate the mines underneath the old Western town Tumbleton in order to unearth the secrets lurking below. The player controls Rusty who is equipped with a pickaxe but the player is given options to upgrade the tools used for digging as progression is made in the game. Besides health, the player also needs coal for light, and water for special abilities. SteamWorld Dig has platform elements in that the player runs, jumps and encounter foes, but the main objective is mining. That means that the player builds – or rather deconstructs – the game world and creates platforms that way. The player collects resources and other hidden resources which can be brought back to the surface and exchanged for cash. When the player progress in the game new abilities are unlocked....
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- Developer
- Image & Form
- Publisher
- Image & Form
- Released
- 7 August 2013
- Series
- SteamWorld
- Platforms
- Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Time to beat
- 7h rushed, 8h normally, 9h complete
- Age rating
- PEGI 7
- Taste scores
- How we score
- Source
- IGDB
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