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Mad Digger

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

The treasure lies at a depth of more than 100 yards. That's a job for the Mad Digger!

What works

  • Simple and accessible gameplay
  • Low price point
  • Casual and relaxing for short sessions
  • Upgrade system provides progression
  • Retro pixel art style

Things to keep in mind

  • Highly repetitive and grind-heavy
  • Lack of content and variety
  • Poor ui and minimal quality-of-life features
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some frustrating difficulty spikes and design issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Idle Deepcore

  • Chicken Farm 2K17

  • Another Farm Roguelike

  • Fishing Inc

  • Fruit Stand Fortune

  • Widget Inc.

  • 晚上nano好

  • Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth

  • Idle Cave Miner

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • Ninja Stealth 3

  • Poop Clicker

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  • Idle

    Turbo Pug DX
  • Progression

    Rusty's Retirement

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Mad Digger: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Intimacy.

Last update: 26/07/2026