lava digger vs Ground Digger!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
lava digger
Embark on an underground adventure collecting ore and upgrading your drill chariot. Explore diverse environments, overcome obstacles, and assemble powerful harvesters to uncover endless treasures. Become the ultimate driver in this mining exploration game.
- Drill chariot driving
- Ore collection
- Harvester upgrades
- Underground exploration
- Obstacle challenges
- Component assembly
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Players will drive one of their own drill chariots, Adventure in ore town and twilight caves, collect ore in the game, strengthen your harvesters, and explore endless treasures 1, ore town underground there are countless treasures waiting for harvesters to find; 2. You can drive a harvester into the underground to search for treasure, and there will be various obstacles in different scenes; 3, collect harvesters' components, assemble stronger and more personalized harvesters, toward the best harvesters refueling, driver; 4, you can drive harvesters into the underground treasure hunt, continue to explore the underground world!
Ground Digger!
Become a treasure hunter and dig deep into the earth with your drilling machine. Collect gems, find hidden keys, and unlock powerful boosters to progress faster. Upgrade your equipment and explore various biomes to reach the Center of the Earth.
- Build and upgrade drilling machines
- Collect gems and treasures
- Find hidden keys to unlock secret zones
- Unlock powerful boosters
- Customize machines with skins and mini-bots
- Explore sand, ice, and lava biomes
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Welcome to Ground Digger The new favorite digging game of all explorers and other treasure hunters that want to dig deep down the hole with a shovel or excavator, drill down the ground and avoid hot lava like a dig master! Here’re some of the game’s totally mind blowing features for becoming a stone miner dig master: BUILD your drilling machine to dig down the hole in the ground and collect gems and other treasures (skulls, robots, infinity stones, gold ...) ! FIND the hidden keys while you dig deep into the ground to unlock secret zones and buried chests ! UNLOCK powerful boosters to progress and dig in faster (dynamite, mini-bots, unlimited fuel, giant digger...) UPGRADE your drill parts (wheels, fuel tank, drill size, shovel, excavator ...) to dig in even deeper ! CUSTOMISE your machine by buying new skins & color looks + CREATE your very own mini-bots army ! EXPLORE sand, ice, hot lava biome... dig this land through all the layers to reach the Center of the Earth like a stone miner pro !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: lava digger at none against Ground Digger!'s 16. lava digger also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (60% vs 41%). Ground Digger!'s advantage is ratings volume (7.1K vs 7) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating 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. Ground Digger! sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. lava digger asks for nothing beyond the download.
lava digger holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ground Digger! has 7.1K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of lava digger's written reviews are positive against 41% of Ground Digger!'s.
lava digger ships an update every 5 weeks, Ground Digger! every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | lava digger | Ground Digger! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 41.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — 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 | 12.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 219 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 霖 丁 | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
lava digger
Ground Digger!
Bugs and requests
lava digger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ground Digger!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress reset without warning
- Inability to progress past certain levels
- Drill size and power upgrades not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- More upgrades and customization options
- Ability to reset progress and start over
- Improved mini-bot functionality
- Reduced ad frequency or ad-free option
In-app purchases
lava digger
No in-app purchases
Ground Digger!
- Companion Limit$1.99
- Double Fuel$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- Small Chest$2.99
- Size Upgrade 1$2.99
- Size Upgrade 3$2.99
- Size Upgrade 2$2.99
- Large Chest$3.99
- Destroyer Skin Bundle$3.99
- Digger Skin Starter Pack$3.99
- Golden Skin Bundle$3.99
- Extra Starter Bundle$3.99
- Small Starter Bundle$4.99
- Golden Skin Bundle$7.99
- Small Starter Bundle$9.99
- Extra Starter Bundle$15.99
Questions
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