Digging Ore Runner vs Giant Excavator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digging Ore Runner
Embark on an adventure through various shafts, collecting ore with your pickaxe. Improve your pickaxe to access more valuable ores and overcome obstacles. Explore dozens of levels across different environments, from ordinary to hell and space.
- Ore collection
- Pickaxe upgrades
- Obstacle avoidance
- Multiple shaft environments
- Dozens of levels
- Space and hell settings
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Hooray! Finally, you can go to a variety of shafts for adventure. Take your favorite pickaxe with you to get as much ore as possible. But not all ore is available to you, so you will have to improve the pickaxe in order not to miss anything valuable. You will have to visit a variety of shafts. In ordinary and not ordinary, even in hell and in space. So you definitely won't get bored thanks to dozens of the most different levels. In the game you will have to dig ore and avoid obstacles that you cannot destroy without upgrades. Therefore, do not forget to improve the pickaxe and destroy anything. Show what you are capable of and achieve mastery in the hunt for valuable ore.
Giant Excavator
Manage your own excavation company, operating heavy machinery to extract ore. Process the collected materials into various products and sell them to expand your factory and become a tycoon.
- Operate excavation machinery
- Collect and process ore
- Produce different products
- Sell products for income
- Expand factory operations
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Operate a excavation company, start your machine, and collect it. Machish the collected ore and produce different products. Then sell them and use these income to continuously expand your factory.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Giant Excavator at 4.7 against Digging Ore Runner's 3.5. Giant Excavator also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and ratings volume (442 vs 4). Digging Ore Runner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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. Giant Excavator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Digging Ore Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Giant Excavator holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Giant Excavator has 442 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Digging Ore Runner's written reviews are positive against 27% of Giant Excavator's.
Digging Ore Runner ships an update every 6 months, Giant Excavator every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digging Ore Runner | Giant Excavator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (442 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 442 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| 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 | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marina Sharova | Solid Games |
Customer experience
Digging Ore Runner
Giant Excavator
In-app purchases
Digging Ore Runner
No in-app purchases
Giant Excavator
- No Ads Lite$4.99
- No Ads Plus$9.99
Questions
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