SteamWorld Dig

Very short and doesn't overstay its welcome, yet a bit light on the metroidvania elements. This is a very good baseline for something greater and I have high hopes for the sequel.

A roguelite that doesn't waste your time. Pros: - Laid back, satifying gameplay. - Great artstyle and setting. - Surprisingly interesting twist. Cons: - Boring, simplistic combat.

A Surprise Hit – Even for a Non-Platformer Fan! I’ve never been into platformers — in fact, I usually avoid them. So when I started this game, I didn’t expect much. But wow… it completely won me over. The controls feel tight and responsive, the gameplay is smooth and satisfying, and the story pulls you in more than you'd expect. What really stood out to me was the music — it's beautifully done and sets the mood perfectly. The animations are clean, the RPG mechanics add just enough depth without being overwhelming, and the overall atmosphere is just… captivating. This game turned out to be a real gem. For someone like me, it’s easily an 8/10. Totally worth your time.

SteamWorld Dig by Image & Form is a cleverly designed action-platformer that blends mining, exploration, and light puzzle-solving into a tight, satisfying experience. Set in a steampunk-infused Wild West, you play as Rusty, a lone steam-powered robot who inherits a mine in a dusty frontier town. What follows is a steadily deepening adventure—both literally and figuratively—as you dig downward into ancient caverns, uncovering secrets, upgrades, and danger at every level. What sets SteamWorld Dig apart is its elegant gameplay loop. You mine resources, sell them in town, and use the profits to buy upgrades like stronger pickaxes, improved lights, and faster movement. Each return trip to the surface feels meaningful, and the upgrades you earn significantly improve your ability to descend deeper and survive longer. This progression system is one of the game's strongest features—rewarding, consistent, and never overcomplicated. Beneath the surface lies a well-paced mixture of procedurally generated tunnels and hand-crafted challenge rooms. While mining is relaxing and almost zen-like, the deeper layers introduce hazards such as collapsing tunnels, hostile creatures, and environmental traps that require careful navigation. It’s this balance of calm digging and sudden tension that keeps the game engaging across its relatively short but well-rounded runtime. Visually, SteamWorld Dig is a treat. The character designs are charming, with expressive robots and beautifully animated environments. The steampunk Western aesthetic is both unique and memorable, complemented by a fitting soundtrack that mixes twangy guitars with mechanical ambiance. The town above serves not just as a hub, but as a lively contrast to the lonely depths below, giving players a sense of progress and purpose. In conclusion, SteamWorld Dig is a compact yet rewarding experience that knows exactly what it wants to be. It doesn’t bloat its systems or overstay its welcome, instead delivering a focused, polished game filled with charm, satisfying mechanics, and a strong sense of discovery. Whether you’re a fan of platformers, mining games, or simply want a well-crafted indie gem, SteamWorld Dig is absolutely worth the dig. Rating: 9/10

If you were to inherit a mine, would you go digging ? Rusty, our hero, does so in hopes of fortune and glory. But what will he find down there ? Dirt, for sure, and a lot of it. But maybe something else, more valuable ? An adventure perhaps ? Upon reaching Tumbleton, you'll notice that the town and its inhabitants have a very particular design, and it looks nice. Warm colors giving the desert a real sense of heat, shiny diamonds catching your eye as you dig deeper... All of this creates a cute world you'll enjoy exploring, even if it's only for 4 to 5 hours. You dig, you find treasures, you come back up. Simple enough ! You exchange those rare minerals in town for money that will be used to upgrade the town itself, but more importantly, your tools ! As you upgrade those, they'll allow you to dig even deeper, faster, and find minerals you never knew existed ! This little routine is repetitive, but the game is short and doesn't really have the time to overstay its welcome. There are small caves on the way down that provide a short change of scenery, with basic puzzles or platforming challenges, and some teleportation stations to save time on your way back up. Even the mystery of what is hiding down there is quite engaging, until an ending that sets up the second game pretty well. The combat, done with your trusty pickaxe, is a little clunky. This clunkiness doesn't make the game challenging, but it's almost the only reason you'll ever take damage. The world's resources are also finite (yes, in-game too), so if you have a habit of staying under falling rocks, you may not be able to afford all the upgrades, because dying hurts your capital (yes, in-game too). I like to take my time when I'm digging, and this may be the reason I always felt like the light source you carry around faded too quickly. But maybe you're brighter than I am and that will compensate for this light issue ! These are just minor annoyances in a game that really doesn't do anything wrong. It looks good and is fun to play through, even if it won't take very long. It's a [b] 6[/b]. Short and sweet, you dig ? Because I definitely did !

I played through it on console. I personally enjoy SteamWorld Dig 2 a bit more. But this one is also excellent. Basically, the whole point of the game is to upgrade, so you can do more, so you can upgrade more, etc. It's one of the best at this game play loop. Don't play for story, lol. Play because you enjoy the process of growing a character.

A really great game. Definitely grab the Steamworld bundle!

I really don’t have much to say about this game. It's one of those short experiences that has a simple mechanical base which doesn’t go much deeper than first impressions. You dig further and further down both to navigate to deeper areas and to dig up gems which can be sold to purchase upgrades. You’ll occasionally hit obstacles which require upgrades to get past which you then get those upgrades either through the store or small challenge areas. Nothing you unlock is particularly surprising or innovative and by the end of the game you only feel marginally stronger than how you started. The main gameplay loop revolves around frequent trips back to the surface because of the limited inventory space with a handful of enemies and obstacles to keep things slightly dangerous. It's not until you reach the third area that the game starts to have any semblance of difficulty but even that doesn’t have much going for it thanks to the short remaining runtime and simple enemies. The moment-to-moment experience is fine, but in retrospect a lot of earlier actions feel meaningless. The upgrades get almost no use because of how quickly the game ends so spending time collecting gems to upgrade them might just be a net loss of time. It’s not a bad system or anything. The game is short enough that my interest survived long enough to reach the credits. Go deeper underground until your inventory is full, return to the surface to sell your loot and upgrade, then go back down and do the same thing but getting somewhat deeper. It's fine. Not particularly difficult or interesting, but sufficient to keep my attention for a few hours. I guess the simplest explanation is that it's a very simplified version of Spleunky but even that seems misleading thanks to how limited this game really is. All I can really say is that it was fine. This is about as neutral of an experience as you can get where it's just enough to keep my mind occupied without being either interesting enough to remember or good enough to enjoy.

12 years later and I still is the best indie game and it goes on sale a lot just playing the game and the franchise is great!

Pretty nice game, although too easy and short.

This is one of those laid back kind of games. There isn't much here, but what you get is enjoyable. You dig down and collect some stuff, go to the surface to sell and upgrade, go back down to collect some stuff and repeat the process. You can find enemies and traps, but they aren't really an issue once you understand how they work. There's also secret areas that you can find and unlock. Overall the game play is very simple and many may find it too simple, but its great for a Friday night play through with some pizza and beer. I got this game fairly cheap. This game, a long with many of its sequels go on sale a lot so if your looking for something to play on a friday night than I recommend this.

Extremely neat and fun bite sized metroidvania. Constantly gives you interesting new mechanics to play with and knows when it's ready to end. A couple gripes about how much money you get versus the cost of getting everything, as well as some annoying enemies, but it's a great game to play in an afternoon.

Cool and chill game that is fun on the Steam Deck. It still holds up. A yes from me!

fun little game to play pretty addicting going into the mine and finding new areas and upgrading

It is quite good with 90% discount. It is almost good for full price. I liked the world and most of the enemies, and whole atmosphere. Some puzzles I had to look up on Youtube for solutions, as hitting partially covered tile was not something I could understand/ pick up myself. Game also takes around 7-8 hours of game play time, so it is great for a short weekend session. Probably pick it up if you like digging games with some story elements in it.

If you like mining stuff, upgrading, a slight bit of puzzeling and getting stuck in holes of your own making, then this is the game for you :-) Its a lovely sweet and short lil game, finished it myself with all the available upgrades in 4 hours, I quite liked the primary gameplay loop of SteamWorld Dig (and of part two) of digigng down, finding resources, heading back up, selling them, upgrading and repeating. The holes you dig do require some platforming skills to get out of, sometimes, though there are buyable ladders for those who want them. Overall SteamWorld Dig has been a good experience for me, though it was a short one, it can easily be beat in a single day, Due to the short playtime I am not sure if its worth everyones money, myself I bought it at a good discount, and I am not disapointed, I enjoyed my time, but If it had cost me the normal price of €10 I'd be on the fence on if it was worth it

A very fun game that layers in new challenges all along the way. Digging your way down is a fun and satisfying loop. Basecamp is full of charming characters. This is a family friendly favorite. A game I loved, and the kids love.

can't believe i slept on this for so long was fantastic glad i got it on the sail had tons of fun could see even doing more play throughs to get better times ect.

Everyone craves the mines. This game delivers on filling that need plus adds a nice steampunk robot vibe to the adventure. A little short though. Finished in 9 hours.

This game is one of my favourite steam game ever. Its got really nice visuals, its got a cool story and has a very fun form of progression. In the game you mine and collect ores to sell for better tools to get more ores. The final world is very frustrating and the ending is crazy. Big plot twist there.

Great game. Play this first then the second one. Short and sweet. I think it is well written and funny, but that is subjective. The loop is addictive. 7/10.

I revisited a childhood favorite as an adult and still absolutely loved it. Solid 8/10 — perfectly paced, not too long or short, and the achievements offer a great challenge for completionists.

Fun, simple arcade, not very difficult. Worths a couple of bucks

This game is a lovely little gem. It is often in sales for insanely low prices and is such a simple fun game. I recommend it to everyone because it is just such great value!

camt believe I didn't review this. It's basically motherload but better. Very well crafted game.

One of the best games I've ever played on a 3DS and PC, followed up by an even better sequel. At $10, it's one of the best games to get at such a price.

Just a quick metroidvania classic - dig ever deeper for those precious gems to upgrade your stuff, so you can dig some more and complete the mystery! good game.

The fun start at hour 2. I recommend this. It may not be a masterpiece but does what is expected, though i wished the voices could be more pleasant. Just because they were robot, it don't mean they have to be annoying sounded ones.

Terrible controls, dated game mechanics without anything obviously fresh (I didn't make it far). With the exception of the graphics this could've been made in the early 90s. Ran into a softlock within the first 5min and had to restart the level.

I picked it up in 2025 because I'm a huge fan of SteamWorld Dig 2. It holds up, had fun. Kind of feels like prototype for the sequel so I strongly advise to get sequel instead, but this was almost free.

The second game is definitely better but this is still more than worth the 89 cents i paid for it on sale..... RIGHT BEFORE it became FREE!!!! 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Kinda obnoxiously designed. Started getting annoying by the third cave. Finite treasure that is tied to progression and can be destroyed is stupid imo.

A very enjoyable and relaxing game, i highly recommend it.

This is my second play-through. The first time I played this, it was the first Metroidvania I had ever played and, at the time, I really loved it. Having played many more games in the subgenre since, I found the game to be a lot sloppier this time around. The controls often feel clunky. The character has a lot of weight to him, but at the same time, he feels very floaty when jumping, often leading to me missing my mark. The game really only has one boss level. I understood how to defeat him, but I struggled because the fight was demanding a precision that the game wasn’t up-to-par on offering. Overall though, it’s an entertaining enough game if bought on sale for a dollar or two. I remember the sequel being a lot smoother.

It's pretty good. It was my first PS plus game. Only beat it last year, and it was alright. I think replaying it is kind of lamer. It's also one of those games where platinuming it is more of a chore than fun. I have not played the second game but much could have been improved. All in all it's very worth playing but it's not revolutionary or jaw dropping.

A great Game that was origanally released for the Nintendo 3DS! 8,5/10

I COULD HAVE SAVED A DOLLAR, WHY IS IT FREE NOW?!?!?!?!?! (Great game btw)

good game (wait for a sale it goes down to like 1 dollar)

Cool game, worth every penny even when its free !!

I'm autistic and I really enjoy this game

Блять, почему его бесплатно раздают, зачем я его за полную цену покупал

Fun and adventurous

Short and Great

childhood game, peak

Rock and Stone Brother

my comfort game

simple and funny

good calm game

Fun game

this game is super good