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Dig or Die

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Dig or Die

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Survival Open World Survival Craft Sandbox Crafting 2D
Last tracked players
7
All-time peak
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Steam reviews
90.6% positive
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Explore, fight, craft and build your defenses! Enjoy a unique and innovative game:


• Strategy: survive massive attacks each night by building strong walls and placing turrets wisely.
• Physics: build wisely or your structures will collapse! And you will need them to defend your base, or build bridges and high towers to access remote locations.
• Water cycle: rain, infiltration, underground rivers and lakes... be careful during the heavy rains, or you could be surprised by a sudden water level rise!

You are a representative of the CRAFT & Co company. You are selling automated fabrication tools across the galaxy when your spacecraft crashes into a hostile planet. Use the tools you sell and the local resources to build up all of what you'll need to survive and eventually be able to escape the planet.

New content!

• Play classic solo or multiplayer co-op, or try the custom game modes: Under the Sea (start in a cave under a huge ocean!), Sky World (a random world composed of hundreds of flying islands), or Base Defense (no exploration, only base building and defense).
• Activate the Hazardous Events option to trigger various surprises like Meteor Shower, Rain Flood, Earthquake, Volcano Eruption or even a Sharkstorm!
• Enjoy Creative Mode and produce all items for free. This includes cheated items and tools to modify terrain or even create water and lava!

Gameplay:

• Fun from the start: no awfully slow digging, so you can concentrate on the exploration, fights and strategy.
• Game's final objective: you must build a rocket ship to escape the planet.
• Strategy survival: the game is a survival game in a strategic meaning. No hunger needs, the whole point of the game is to survive to the massive attacks each night. And to do that, you will have to explore the world to gather resources and craft your defenses.

Fights:

• No swords, magic or flying clown monsters here! It's a consistent science-fiction world, with fast and fun laser guns fights!
• Intelligent monsters: they will find the best path to attack your defenses. And be careful: even if they can't move through walls, they can still destroy them!
• Difficulty progression: only the species of monsters you have already killed before attack during the night (they must have taken ill!). So you can progress at your own pace and choose when you are ready to move forward and fight stronger monsters.
• AI companion: your crashed ship contains an AI that survived and will give you useful advices (or not!). Build him a drone so he can follow you and even help you fight the monsters!

World Simulation:

• Huge world with global real-time simulation of the environment, physics, water cycle and lighting.
• Electricity: build solar panels or functional hydroelectric generators to power your base’s most advanced items!
• Plants simulation: plants naturally grow and spread if their life-conditions are met. Create some farms with artificial sun lamps and irrigation.
• Procedurally generated world: Major areas locations are specific to benefit from a logical game progression, but detailed layout of surface, caverns, ores, etc. are unique at each playthrough.

Crafting and Building:

• Crafting: You dig minerals, harvest plants and kill some monsters and bosses in order to craft better items and defenses. But the digging is really fast, your inventory space is infinite and all crafting recipes are displayed, so you don’t waste all your time on grinding or wikis and can concentrate on setting up better defenses.
• Base construction: You build a fortress, not a holiday house. So you won't find hundreds of flowerpots or tapestries, but rather turrets, strong walls and useful machines. Remember the Starship Troopers or Aliens movies atmosphere!

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Plan B: Terraform 1.0 is released! Dig or Die on XBox and Playstation! v1.11 (build 864) minor update
System requirements Windows

Windows

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Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
  • Processor: Intel 2.4 GHz, Amd FX-8350 or better
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256MB video memory, capable of shader model 2.0
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Mouse, Keyboard. Edit on 2016/03/25: caution, the game doesn't work on some Win XP 32bits hardware (not everyone), and i'm not sure if i'll be able to fix it. So you can ask a refund if that's the case for you
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Gaddy Games
Brazilian rating
6
Steam Germany rating
12
Achievements
18
Metacritic
76
Features
Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Stereo Sound, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Languages
English, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, German, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Korean, Italian, Traditional Chinese
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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unsupported
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Developer-declared accessibility on Steam

Features not declared by the developer are not labeled unsupported.

custom volume controls stereo sound playable without timed input adjustable difficulty save anytime
Structured language support (13)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoNo
FrenchYesNoNo
RussianYesNoNo
Simplified ChineseYesNoNo
GermanYesNoNo
PolishYesNoNo
Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
JapaneseYesNoNo
Portuguese - BrazilYesNoNo
DutchYesNoNo
KoreanYesNoNo
ItalianYesNoNo
Traditional ChineseYesNoNo
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Buy Verdict

Watch — $5.39.

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Value Score

Fair Value — 58th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 58th percentile. Priced as Market at $5.39.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 24%
Value Ratio Top 42%

Early Access Abandoned

Time in EA
233 days
Updates
10
Current Players
7

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Dig or Die worth buying right now?
Watch — $5.39. Decent deal at 55% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
When does Dig or Die go on sale?
Decent deal at 55% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Is Dig or Die free to play?
Dig or Die costs $5.39 on Steam.
What genre is Dig or Die?
Dig or Die is a Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy game.
Who developed Dig or Die?
Dig or Die was developed by Gaddy Games and published by Gaddy Games.
What platforms does Dig or Die support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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