If you like the idea of digging a giant hole to the visual style of Supraland: Six Inches Under, then this is the one for you. It launched on Steam in February 2025.
This one is by indie game studio Cyberwave in Germany who specialise in these fun little concepts. Although this is a short title, there’s lots to enjoy here in what acts as a clicker title meets digging adventure. We love it!
Go For Gold in A Game About Digging a Hole
Okay, so this is kind of the brilliant clicker SPACEPLAN (2017) meets the also brilliant SteamWorld Dig 2 (2017). There’s clicking, there’s digging, and there’s resource management.
Yet it also reminds us of the punishment genre, with games such as A Difficult Game About Climbing (2024).
The point of the experience is to get stuck in and repeat a task over and over to the tune of merciless, existential, bleak pointlessness. And we love that type of thing! This has appealed mightily.
It’s straightforward enough. Set in a leafy middle-class suburb, the player is tasked with digging a big old hole in their back garden. This is how it goes:
- You start digging with your trusty spade
- You get resources
- Sell the resources for moolah
- Upgrade items to improve your digging ability
- Dig deeper!
After a slow start you’ll soon be earning money, upgrading your kit, and going very bloody deep into the ground. You can buy a jetpack to launch you out of there at a faster rate. All good fun!
This is £5 and you get about one or two hours worth of gameplay, with a big old spooky secret at the bottom of the hole! We’re not dropping spoilers here.
A Game About Digging a Hole will appeal to a specific type of person.
You’ll know who you are. If like us you see this concept and just have to play it immediately, you won’t be disappointed. For what it is, the execution is perfect and it delivers on its repetitive exploration qualities big time.
In fact, we’re confident in saying this one will be added to our best games for autistic adults list. The stimming qualities are off the charts as you rinse and repeat over and over.
If mindless repetition isn’t your type of thing, then the game won’t appeal.
But with over 8,000 reviews on Steam right now, we can see the title has met with a very positive gamer reaction. We’re very pleased to see it find an audience! This is lots of fun, great escapism, and you get to dig a bloody great big hole! Perfection.
