Digger vs Gold Digger FRVR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digger
Relive the 80s with this classic arcade game remake. Collect emeralds or defeat monsters to progress through levels. Break golden bags for bonus points and earn extra lives.
- Classic 80s arcade experience
- Collect emeralds
- Defeat monsters
- Break golden bags for points
- Mobile-enhanced controls
- Worldwide leaderboard
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Classic arcade from the 80s. Digger is a remake of a classic arcade from the 80's. The objective in each level is to collect all the emeralds or kill all the monsters. To get higher score, you have to break golden bags by falling through and collect them. A new life is awarded at certain amount of points or for ad movie. ====== features ======= The authentic digger experience and enhancements for mobile devices. Accurate and convenient control options. Worldwide leaderboard. No In-App purchase.
Gold Digger FRVR
Embark on a thrilling mining adventure, digging deep into caves to unearth gold, diamonds, and ancient treasures. Strategically use your pickaxe to avoid falling rocks and connect three or more to blast them for bonus rewards. Save your progress at checkpoints and aim to become a speleology tycoon.
- Dig for gold and treasures
- Avoid falling rocks
- Blast rocks by connecting three or more
- Discover dinosaur bones and diamonds
- Save progress with checkpoints
- Explore cave corners
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Gold Digger FRVR is the best digging game, for both gold rush veterans and mining fans. Take your pickaxe and your helmet and start drilling! Let’s dig day and night, let’s find tons of gold and some treasures, let’s put them on the ground and make some money! But aware of the giant rocks, make smart use of your pickaxe and dig wisely, otherwise they will fall on you and you'll lose all the gold! Instead of that, try to connect three or more rocks to blast them and get even more gold! Explore every corner of the cave and do not leave a stone unexcavated. Who knows what could you find in the depths of a gold mine? Dig up ancient dinosaurs bones, valuable gold nuggets of even shiny diamonds. No rock can stop you from your mining mission! Be careful of underground explosions and use the checkpoint base to save your progress. Start mining and fill your bag with gold and diamonds in the best free digging game ever! Can you become the speleology tycoon?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gold Digger FRVR at 4.5 against Digger's 3.2. Gold Digger FRVR also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 258). Digger's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Gold Digger FRVR sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Digger asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gold Digger FRVR holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gold Digger FRVR has 1.5K ratings behind it against 258, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Digger's written reviews are positive against 37% of Gold Digger FRVR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Digger ships an update every 3 weeks, Gold Digger FRVR every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Digger | Gold Digger FRVR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (258 ratings) | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better | 37.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 258 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jinwoo Cho | FRVR |
Customer experience
Digger
Gold Digger FRVR
User reviews
Digger
From 258 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Faithful recreation of classic Digger game
- 👍 Nostalgic experience for longtime fans
- 🎯 Simple and addictive gameplay
- 🕹️ Good joystick/controller support options
- 💰 Free to play with optional ad-free extra lives
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 🎮 Unreliable and erratic touch controls
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- ⚠️ Ads interrupt gameplay at critical moments
- ❌ No ad-free version available for purchase
Gold Digger FRVR
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Enjoyable time-killer
- 🚀 Engaging mining mechanics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent glitches and crashes
- 🐛 Progress loss and reset issues
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable performance
Bugs and requests
Digger
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes frequently during gameplay
- Controls become unresponsive after ads finish playing
- Ads appear at death moments causing immediate loss
- Control pad invisible until screen is touched
- Direction arrows not appearing on startup
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- Controls glitch on higher difficulty levels
- Inconsistent extra life awards despite reaching point thresholds
- Placeholder buttons and menu options that don't function
- Game difficulty increases unexpectedly (enemies move faster)
- Screen doesn't fill entire display after recent updates
Requested features
11 requests- Ad-free version available for purchase ($0.99-$2.99)
- Keyboard and Bluetooth controller support
- Extra lives awarded at 20,000-point intervals (original game feature)
- High score tracking and leaderboard system
- Game Center integration
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- Improved touch control responsiveness
- Swipe-based directional controls
- Adjustable control pad positioning
- Help/tutorial menu for new players
- Original Dig Dug version as separate game
- Screen orientation options
Gold Digger FRVR
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes and resets progress
- Inventory and items disappearing
- Inability to load or launch game
Requested features
3 requests- Improved save/load functionality
- More content and progression
- Optimization for newer devices
In-app purchases
Digger
No in-app purchases
Gold Digger FRVR
- Handful of 15 Gems$0.99
- Bundle Pack 1$0.99
- Pile of 50 Gems$1.99
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- Remove Ads$2.99
- Bundle Pack 2$2.99
- Bucket of 100 Gems$4.99
- Bundle Pack 3$4.99
- Bundle Pack 4$6.99
- Mountain of 1000 Gems$9.99
- Bucket of 120 Gems$9.99
- Bundle Pack 5$9.99
- Bucket of 300 Gems$19.99
