Keep Digging similar games & best alternatives

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Keep Digging

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

What works

  • Fun and satisfying cooperative gameplay
  • Good value for price
  • Simple and accessible mechanics
  • Relaxing and social experience
  • Steady progression and upgrades

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length and limited content
  • Repetitive and simple gameplay
  • Performance and optimization issues
  • Lack of challenge or danger
  • Some multiplayer sync bugs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Degrees of Separation

  • Viscera Cleanup Detail

  • Lightyear Frontier

  • Garden Paws

  • Out of Ore

  • Escape Simulator 2

More story-driven

Games that feels like Keep Digging but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Moss VR

  • LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

  • Moss II VR

  • Voidtrain

  • It Takes Two Friend's Pass

  • The Spirit and the Mouse

Less social

Games that feels like Keep Digging but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Alaska Gold Fever

  • Downward: Enhanced Edition

  • Spirit of the North 2

  • The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone

  • Spirit of the North

  • Somber Echoes

More violent

Games that feels like Keep Digging but with more combat and destruction

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Dungeons of Sundaria

  • Abyssus

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Sker Ritual

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Keep Digging but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Chained Together

  • Backrooms Lost Runners

  • The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

  • Styx: Shards of Darkness

  • Goblin Cleanup

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Keep Digging. These titles are not in What to play next.

Keep Digging: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026