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Games like Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose · 2026 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 95 % positive of 630 reviews, as of Oct 28
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game about digging up artifacts to help Mayor Dog win the election! Recover artifacts, grow your museum, and upgrade your tools while building a highway across the Animal Republic!
24 games that play like Big Dig and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Digseum, Mr.Mine and You Know The Drill.
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Plays and looks like Big Dig
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Big Dig
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Digseum
97 % positive of 8,112
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
Mr.Mine
90 % positive of 18,720
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
You Know The Drill
91 % positive of 1,122
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
Diggin
79 % positive of 715
Two Point Museum
95 % positive of 9,942
Shared: Simulation · Relaxing · Management
A Game About Digging A Hole™
89 % positive of 19,037
Shared: Mining · Simulation · Casual
Forest Hustle
90 % positive of 592
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Idler
Keep on Mining!
93 % positive of 8,386
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Relaxing
Babel Legacy
88 % positive of 260
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
Mini Motorways
96 % positive of 23,707
Shared: Simulation · Relaxing · Management
Sludgineers
86 % positive of 2,068
Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
Hydroneer
85 % positive of 27,308
Shared: Mining · Simulation · Strategy
More matches
- Kin and Quarry75 % positive of 404
- Drillbound87 % positive of 254Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
- Hole Is Mine90 % positive of 854Shared: Clicker · Mining · Simulation
- Game Dev Tycoon95 % positive of 40,410Shared: Simulation · Management · Strategy
- Fill Up The Hole90 % positive of 1,182Shared: Clicker · Simulation · Management
- Deep Corp88 % positive of 406Shared: Mining · Management · Strategy
- Tidy Up History92 % positive of 505Shared: Simulation · Relaxing · Hidden Object
- Gold Mining Simulator72 % positive of 15,172Shared: Mining · Simulation · Relaxing
- Hidden Through Time92 % positive of 2,825Shared: Relaxing · Collectathon · Hidden Object
- Dwarf Eats Mountain79 % positive of 1,198
- Graveyard Keeper86 % positive of 40,243Shared: Simulation · Management · Story Rich
- Garden Paws90 % positive of 1,894Shared: Simulation · Relaxing · Cartoony
By look
Looks like Big Dig
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
WorldBox - God Simulator
94 % positive of 51,895
Reventure
95 % positive of 8,469
Forager
88 % positive of 35,609
Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game
94 % positive of 26,539
Simmiland
86 % positive of 1,815
Cat Bait
96 % positive of 1,460
Sephiria
94 % positive of 12,641
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
94 % positive of 9,899
Arco
95 % positive of 2,220
Miniland Adventure: Prologue
85 % positive of 720
Coromon
84 % positive of 6,378
Radical Rabbit Stew
97 % positive of 131
More matches
- Digseum97 % positive of 8,112
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo96 % positive of 2,053
- Roguefort87 % positive of 207
- Cauldron92 % positive of 1,727
- Blazing Beaks84 % positive of 2,044
- Hero's Hour78 % positive of 4,660
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale96 % positive of 3,429
- Super Mining Mechs86 % positive of 858
- Aground92 % positive of 1,837
- Click and Conquer92 % positive of 2,501
- Afterplace97 % positive of 178
- Mining Mechs88 % positive of 2,605
At a glance
What games like Big Dig have in common
- The tags they share most often with Big Dig: Simulation (17 of 24), Mining (13) and Clicker (10).
- They came out between 2013 and 2026, none of them after Big Dig (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Digseum (97 % positive of 8,112).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.