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Dig or Die
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Dig or Die is one of those games that slips under most people’s radar but ends up eating hours of your time. It’s a mix of survival, crafting, and base-building inside a fully destructible world. You crash-land on a hostile planet, and everything tries to kill you. The twist is…”
— a player, Steam review · 112 hrs played“A surprisingly enjoyable game! Escaping a hostile planet being the ultimate goal, it combines combat, exploration, foraging, hunting, mining and crafting and involves nightly monster raids that only escalate according to what kind of monsters the player has hunted so far. All…”
— a player, Steam review · 321 hrs played“its terraria but with physics. same replayability and fun!”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:15 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Plan B: Terraform 1.0 is released!
After 6 years of dev time, Plan B: Terraform has finally reached version 1.0! More info : Future of the game is still undecided, but we are probably going to continue to update it as there are lot of
Dig or Die on XBox and Playstation!
Hi everyone! It has been a long time, but it's finally there: Dig or Die is released today on consoles. The port was made by Blitworks Games (they have previously ported They Are Billions, Spelunky 2,
v1.11 (build 864) minor update
This minor update just changes some musics to avoid some copyright issues with youtube videos of the game. Detailed explanation: all musics had the appropriate licence to be used in the game, but not
Plan B: Terraform demo is out
The demo will be live until february 13th, and two days later the Early Access will start. I hope you'll enjoy the game :-) More info : https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/36777861867
Dig or Die - v1.11 (build 861) ultra-minor fix
Very small fix to update the broken discord links. As last build was a very long time ago, if you see anything broken, please contact me ! (on the forum or on my discord : https://discord.com/invite/g
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting · 2D · Open World · Strategy · Indie · Action · Multiplayer · Tower Defense · Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, German, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Korean, Italian, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://gaddygames.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 Processor: Intel 2.4 GHz, Amd FX-8350 or better Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 256MB video memory, capable of shader model 2.0 DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Mouse, Keyboard. Edit on 2016/03/25: caution, the game doesn't work on some Win XP 32bits hardware (not everyone), and i'm not sure if i'll be able to fix it. So you can ask a refund if that's the case for you