Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 07:57 am
Dig Deep! – Action Game Review
Dig Deep! is a Action/Casual game from Fernando Garcia Bernal, first launched in 1st June 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 495+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dig Deep! Stand Out
Unleash your inner gaming beast with the original Dig Deep! The classic ad-free retro miner experience!
Get ready to meet Roger – the galaxy's most famous miner with a killer 'stache and epic toupee! Join him and his squad on a treacherous mission into the depths of an ancient planet to gather valuable gold. Are you up for the challenge?
• Frenzied gameplay
• Explore a randomly generated planet
• Simple one button controls
• Upgrade your mining gear
• Tons of side missions to complete
• Recruit new miners with special abilities
• Pixel Art graphics and a Chiptune soundtrack that will cause your moustache hairs to stand up
• No in-app purchases, No Ads – buy it once and play forever!
Dig Deep! is an independent game designed by two friends. By buying it you will not only get a fantastic game but also help us to continue creating new projects :)
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dig Deep! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th March 2024
Recent improvements include:
Hi fellow miners!
We've fixed a problem with the status bar in some iPhone devices.
Let us know in the comments if you have any ideas to keep improving the game.
Thank you for your continued support of Dig Deep.
Download & Availability
Dig Deep! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Came back to this game after a while and found our stats reset. That was fine though, and we just played through from the start. Great game with really interesting strategies and techniques, would love to see more content in the future as Ive now beaten all the levels.
We really love this game, its been super fun to play! One problem though: Ive finished the levels, and now we dont know what to do! Maybe adding more characters or a new level of armor would solve that problem; completing more levels means more characters/armor unlocked! We would love to see it go past level 26! Also, just a little side-suggestion, when Alducos power-up is used, if he gets shot by a shooter alien, he dies. However, he can still survive the security bot blast? It doesnt make much sense. But we would mainly love to see more levels and possibly characters.
Great app to waste away a quick interval of time – long or short.
First off, Im really excited to see updates! Its nice to see the developers adding new things. Ive been playing dig deep since march of 2020. Its a great game to pick up for a minute or two. However, let us warn you: sometimes you think you can finish a couple of missions, then realize youve been playing for an hour! Id love to see the following: fixing the screen for notch/island users (we cant see some of our stats) maybe a new enemy, a new agent, and a new power up? Once we bought all the upgrades the gold doesnt have a purposeI would also like the ability to use another boost once you hit 1000m, and maybe an agent who can revive themselves once during a run? Just some ideas off the top of our head! Thanks again and keep up the work.
Emailed the developer for advice and promptly got a response. The tasks to level up are challenging and keep us trying. Its nice to play at any point and not worry about saving progress or anything like that.
Con: on devices with a notch, the top bar for coin and score is obscured.
This game is a blast to play! Ive enjoyed countless hours mining deep into the underground! Quick question. Im stuck on collect 6500 gold pieces in one run. Have been for awhile. Any advice anyone can give on that level? Again excellent game! Highly recommended.
Simple easy to learn. Fun quick games anyone can play.
Game doesnt even start in iOS 15. Every time we try to open the game and every time it crashes. Please fix this, we love this game.
We dogged everything and did not fined a military base.
We cant find out how to avoid the drones in the army base. Any ideas.
About as much action as you can get on a tablet.
Fun game. Wish someone told us to save gems because the last character you unlock has an insane power that would be amazing with upgrades. The challenges are so hard though! Gota grind to get those gems. Luckily, grinding is fun cuz the game is great. Fun learning level patterns and how to avoid enemies.
Keeps our head clear and focused, pretty classy like vibe to it. Highly recommended!!! Love the game, keeps us interested.
Good but on level tree we had a problem, when it says to upgrade Rogers special ibility and use it we did not know how.
Great game, addicting. Add more ways to use coins.
Great game! When will there be more levels & challenges added.
This games is awesome!! We have had it for about a week and im stuck on level 9 with the ten consecutive streaks!! Super fun and could play for hours.
Takes awhile to really figure out what going on but its a great little pastime. Good for very quick gaming sessions too.
Gave us that just one more game craving.
We like how this game is charming to look at, simple to control and understand but still challenging. This is what we want from mobile games. Recommended.
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This is a great game if you wanna waste some time.its VERY addicting.
Just downloaded this game for a time killer and got hooked keep up the great work devs.
This is one addictive and enjoyable arcade game with awesome pixl graphics and chip tunes, easy controls and a fantastic sense of progression. We love it.
Hey Noodlecake Studios, Thanks for keeping this game ad-free. We cant express how much of a relief it is to play this game and not have to view 15-30 seconds of videos between rounds! <3.
Its a great game, but some missions can be really annoying. If you could skip a mission and get a new one maybe once per day or something then it would be a lot easier to progress.
Buy once and get a whole game, perfect.
This game surprised us with how challenging it was. Its simple, but addictive and fun. The characters and story elements are a blast, and we enjoy it very much.
If you get all of the Boost Distance upgrades before it flags the upgrades as a requirement to level up, the flag never goes away- even though you cant upgrade anymore.
When we first downloaded this game, it was bleh. Right before we deleted it, we gave it another shot. This game grows on you. Its just easy enough to fun, but just hard enough to keep you coming back.
Very addictive time waster, good for a 3 minute or 30 minute space-out session. And fun. Dev(s), if youre reading, its possible to lose by getting stuck in some undiggable stone after some rocket/eye boosts wear off. It would be great if this couldnt happen – its a horrible way to lose on a good streak.
Both the music and colors immediately gave us appreciation for this cheap 8bit game.
Wow this game is SOOO FUN! The whole idea of space mining is really cool, but the main thing that makes this game so good is that there is always something to do. In other words you will never get board of it. Finally we must say it is well worth the money.
We deeply appreciate that the developer responded to our review, and we have amended it. We had complained that the game goals were impossible, but after a month, we were able to get to level 15 – the trick is to play until you are presented with a random sequence of two or three boosts immediately prior to a long, wide column of gold somewhere around 800 meters – itll happen about once every 2,000-5,000 games, give or take. If you die early in the sequence, you just have to let it roll around again (its hard to gauge exactly how often the wall of gold is loaded, and often youll get the boosts without the gold, or the gold without the boosts). So we stand corrected – it is possible to get level advances, just very rare. We suppose we should say more, if only to help anyone else. If you can unlock the second character, you get a power to briefly double your gold score, but only if you are lucky enough to dig 25 gold blocks very quickly in a row. So, in exceedingly rare circumstances, you can get a sequence where its possible to double the amount of gold youre credited with at the same moment that you encounter a boost just above an unusually thick collection of gold blocks. As far as we know, thats the only way to collect 2,500 gold points. As for other goals (like getting to the level with laser cannons (misspelled in the game as canons) that requires a combination of almost impossible luck and timing. After thousands of plays, playing 4-5 hours a day for the last month, Ive gotten to the lasers maybe six times, only to be instantly killed by a fast-moving bouncing ball.
This game is great and all, Ive probably have spent hours playing it when we dont have anything to do at all. We dont mind the money we had to spent on it but once you beat all the levels it starts being so buggy. Our screen freezes when we die and wont let us go back to the starting screen. It wasnt buggy at all before beating all the levels but once you do expect getting frustrated when you die.
This game is an absolute blast to play, with the challenging gameplay, quick pace, and the fact that theres always a goal to look toward. The game exceeds in sound design, from the satisfying noise when you hit a gold streak, all the way to the absolute BOP of title screen music. With a selection of four characters with unique abilities, it never makes a run boring. However a few critiques are on the following: – would like a little more used for gold, as once you upgrade your boost and shield fully, it becomes useless except for disposable boosts, which just end up stockpiling. – A couple more templates, or a random world option for people who have basically memorized what to do per template that they run into. – Possibly more characters? Alluding has a super unique ability, and we would love to see more interesting abilities added to new characters. Overall, the game is a great experience, and should be installed by those who love a good time passer thats also challenging, with a unique concept and not dull like most money grabs of mobile games that exist today. The game could use just a tad bit more tweaking and content, but other than the critiques above, it is a wonderful experience from start to finish. This game has love put into it by the developers, and it really shines through as one of those few mobile gems.
We usually find ourselves downloading apps that seem fun only to immediately delete them from add spam or just, boredom. We can say that this game is not one of those apps. We enjoy it, though we do feel more characters could be added, that doesnt really take away from the fun it provides as a game itself. Overall great app, 9/10 would recommend.
We dont understand why you guys would make the ability to tap your character when litterally the only control on this game is a left tap or right tap add a button or something because the character never gets pressed and we end up dying.
This is a fantastic game. Exactly what Ive been looking for. We wish you make another update though, it has been 2 years. Please! :)).
So we have an unused upgrade gem and we keep getting this annoying beep, yes we know we have an unused gem, can we stopped being pestered about it? Besides that its a pretty good game.
Ok, we saw this game being demoed on Markipliers YouTube channel a while back (as of this review) and gave it a try. So far, Ive been enjoying this game as a quick time waster. Its challenging enough to not being a waste two dollars but not to the point of being aggravating. Yeah there are runs that get you right off the bat or runs that you did really well and end on some stupid mishap, but keep at it. For us Im stuck at trying to get the get to the deepest part of the planet achievement while still trying to get to the second military base on most of our regular runs. Overall it mostly bug free with the exception of a minor animation bug of the death animation doesnt go off, to put it of the lack of a better way. When the character that Im playing as dies by an alien or a ours they will often freeze up or get into the loop of hitting ground if it happens when theyre falling (we still see the ghost appear and still able to go to the menu). There is another bug that we havent had in a while is the go back in the menu wont work. It might still be there or we may have been missing the actual button, but we do think it worth mentioning.
But needs more difficult achievements and maybe a new character.
A challenging game good for a small distraction. Kind of a large progression through the leveling system could use a simplified system.
This game used to be awesome Since we upgrade to iPadOS 15 it keep crashing.
Ive upgraded the special ability like it says we have to do for the quest but we cant activate it. When we try to click the character it just makes him turn around and avoid it. Its irritating and makes us want to just uninstall the game. Ive seen other complain about this bug and it really needs to be fixed. It should be easier to activate the ability.
The game is fun, we have already earned the 1st upgrade for Roger, but no matter how many gold streaks we get it never gives us a chance to use his power, and one of the requirements to pass the level is to upgrade and use Rogers special ability. Gotta be a glitch! They need to fix the glitches before we would recommend.
At first it looks fun but after a while it is just the same exact thing with nothing really changing.
Ive had this game for a while. Idea is simple yet much more challenging than it should be. Your character keeps going downward as you try to get gold and avoid hazards. Its way too easy to die due to all of the bombs and such in your way. And when you die you start over. We havent even unlocked any other characters or anything due to the difficulty. You should at least get more than one life IMO. There isnt much to unlock and the location hasnt changed at least with our current progress- so although this app has a chance to shine like gold (pun intended), because of the obstacles and lack of reward we dont know if Ill keep it on our phone.
10 consecutive gold is too hard and not explained. Levels are too random to get 10.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8
- Size: 16.39 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: CA, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Fernando Garcia Bernal
Last updated: 10th March 2024 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Fernando Garcia Bernal