Game: A Game About Digging A Hole™
Genre: Action, Adventure, Simulation, Lifestyle
System: Nintendo Switch (Also on Steam (Windows), Xbox, PlayStation 5, Apple iOS and Android.)
Developer | Publisher: DoubleBee | rokaplay
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 7+
Price: US $4.99 | UK £4.29 | EU € 4,99
Release Date: December 9th, 2025
Review code used, with many thanks to Press Engine.
Sometimes a simple premise (and clever marketing) can be a great success – after all, who would have thought using a pressure washer would appeal to so many that they would make a sequel. A Game About Digging A Hole™ is just that – it’s a game where you dig a hole.
Surely there must be more to it? Well, let’s jump into that hole and hope we don’t get buried!
There Be Gold In That Garden!
A Game About Digging A Hole™ starts with a short cutscene. You witness a sales advert being placed on a notice board. The sale price seems rather too good to believe, especially as there is buried treasure in the garden. But hey, who doesn’t want to get rich quickly!
Before you know it, you’re standing on the back patio of your new home, with the Super Mega Digger 3000 Ultimate 2.0 in hand, ready to dig for that gold.
Dig, Gather, Sell, Upgrade
The gameplay loop is very straightforward. You use the battery-powered shovel to dig the soil. Occasionally, you’ll uncover stones or ores. These can be sold at the terminal in your garage, and the money raised can be used to recharge the battery or to buy upgrades. You start with 3 spaces in your inventory and a small battery. Initially, you run out of space and power quickly and will need to return to the garage to sell and recharge frequently. A Game About Digging A Hole™ does a great job of warning you about the inventory being full or the battery being low/critical. Once the inventory is full, additional ores will be destroyed.
The shovel has a built-in sensor, so you can find abandoned rooms or briefcases containing money as you dig. A Game About Digging A Hole™ is very well balanced in terms of ore prices and upgrade costs. The selling prices of the different ores increase the further you go down, so although the cost of upgrading is more expensive, it isn’t difficult to save for them.
You are not immune to gravity, so falling too far will cause damage, hence the need for the jet pack to control your descent, as well as propel you out of the hole. Lose too much health, and you’ll lose your inventory and be put back to the surface. Large rocks and lava rocks (which will burn) need to be cleared with dynamite.
As it’s such a short game, I will not spoil the ending. However, once you have completed the first descent, you will unlock achievements, one of which is to complete the game within 30 minutes. However, generally it’s going to take 1-3 hours, depending on whether you dig a hole or excavate an open-pit mine.
Gameplay
The majority of the controls are shown on screen, although oddly, the control to ‘dig’ (ZR) is not. A Game About Digging A Hole™ plays well in both docked and handheld mode, and with little writing to read, the font size is not an issue.
Although there is a setting for autosave, I’m not sure it works as expected, as I was given a warning as I was leaving the garage that the game hadn’t been saved for 30 minutes.
Although I didn’t encounter any major issues, I did find that occasionally the shovel didn’t dig when expected, but maybe I was too far away from the soil. It’s also possible to get stuck under a remnant of soil, which is frustrating, and it can be difficult to position the shovel to clear it away.
There is no time of day; the sun shines brightly in the sky all the time.
A Game About Digging A Hole™ is played in the first-person, and it can get quite dark and disorienting the further down you go.
Conclusion
A Game About Digging A Hole™ doesn’t disappoint in terms of gameplay. It is literally a game about digging a hole. There is something quite enjoyable about digging, gathering ores, selling and then upgrading the tools. The ending is somewhat different to what I imagined, but has its own humour.
It can be a little frustrating when the shovel refuses to dig, or you get stuck on a few pixels of soil, but overall, A Game About Digging A Hole™ provides good entertainment.
Final Verdict: I Like it 
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