Dig or Die

Dig or Die

Gaddy Games · July 10, 2018 · Survival, Open World Survival Craft, Sandbox, Crafting, 2D

Buy Dig or Die from Steam at $11.99 — the cheapest of 2 stores we compare. The cheapest Dig or Die key from a keyshop is $16.99 at CJS CD Keys.

PC
Very Positive90% · 4,28976Metacritic1playing now
Best price
$11.99
lowest tracked $2.99
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Where to buy Dig or Die — official stores

Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$11.99
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Cheapest Dig or Die keys — keyshops

Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.

CJS CD Keys
CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$16.99
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Dig or Die price by region

Dig or Die costs $6.99 in Georgia (USD), £9.99 in the United Kingdom, €10.79 in Europe (EUR), $11.99 in the United States, CA$15.49 in Canada, NZ$17.49 in New Zealand, A$17.75 in Australia, R$38.49 in Brazil and zł44.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Dig or Die offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $6.99 $6.99 $16.99 2
United Kingdom £9.99 £9.99 £12.64 2
Europe (EUR) €10.79 −10% €11.99 €10.79 2
United Statesyour region $11.99 $11.99 $16.99 2
Canada CA$15.49 CA$15.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$17.49 NZ$17.49 — 1
Australia A$17.75 A$17.75 — 1
Brazil R$38.49 R$38.49 — 1
Poland zł44.99 zł44.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Dig or Die

✦ AI summary

Build your way to survival on a hostile planet by crafting defenses, exploring for resources, and fending off nightly monster attacks with physics-based construction and strategic tower placement. Escape through a dynamically simulated world featuring real-time water cycles, electricity systems, intelligent enemies, and multiple game modes from classic survival to underwater caves and floating sky islands.

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!

Dig or Die — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Online co-op
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Dig or Die offers engaging 2D exploration, crafting, and survival gameplay with challenging tower defense mechanics and realistic physics simulation that punishes poor building decisions. Players praise the dynamic physics system and the creative base-building challenges it creates, though opinions split sharply on whether the structural mechanics are intuitively designed or frustratingly obtuse, with some finding the weight and support system rewarding while others view it as broken.

Not recommended Aug 9, 2026
The building and physics are awful. Vertical pillars collapse under their own weight when jut 5 - 6 blocks high. Back walls only support other back walls. The steel frames you can actually walk through barely hold any weight and block placement of turrets and other devices.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 9, 2026
Dig or Die is an absolute masterclass in chaotic engineering. It mixes 2D exploration, crafting, and survival with a punishing tower defense loop where you must escape a hostile planet. Unlike standard sandbox builders, the world relies heavily on real-world physics, gravity, structural weight, and fluid dynamics dictate whether your fortress stands or collapses under its weight. Nightly monster raids grow increasingly brutal based strictly on the species you have hunted during the day. Because every creature can dig, traditional turtling is useless. Survival requires you to design open, tactical bases that intentionally funnel enemies into automated kill-zones while managing intense environmental hazards like torrential downpours. The Pros Dynamic Physics & Hydrodynamics: Heavy rain shapes the terrain, alters enemy spawns, and forces you to build complex drainage systems so water doesn't ruin enemy pathfinding or flood your base. Rewarding Automation & Engineering: Designing high-efficiency hydro dams for electricity production and building late-game bases that cleanly route monsters into automated turrets is incredibly satisfying. Controlled Escalation: The game doesn't ju…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 11, 2026
dddddddddddddddddddddssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Recommended Aug 13, 2026
Pretty damn good. Tower defense is abit shallow, and I think it could have done with another update for an art pass and some more interesting features, namely base building being more unique. But its a good 10 hour experience or so.
Recommended Jul 28, 2026
Yeh
Recommended Jul 18, 2026
kill bug

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