Comparison

Mini Digger vs Dig Adventure

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mini Digger

Manage a mining company, recruit workers, and excavate historical sites for treasures. Sell your findings, upgrade tools, and invest to grow your business. This idle clicker game offers satisfying gameplay and automatic resource generation.

Highlights
  • Recruit and manage miners
  • Excavate heritage sites and treasures
  • Sell gold and diamond ore
  • Upgrade digging tools
  • Explore iconic archaeological maps
  • Automatic digging and mining
  • Collect idle gold coins
Features
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MINI DIGGER invites you to be the boss of the DiggyAntique company. Here you can lean back in a comfortable boss's chair, grow your mining business and become the idle rich! Recruit your workers and start digging! Excavate and uncover astonishing heritage sites, antiques, treasures, etc. Sell gold and diamond ore, polish your digging skills, invest like a business tycoon and hire more workers to speed up! Collect cultural relics from ancient times! Enjoy the beautiful and fascinating scenes of the historical remains! Start digging in one of the addicting incremental/clicker game! Can’t wait to start? Tap to Dig! HOW TO PLAY • Recruit your miners and start digging! • Profit from selling your gold and diamond ore at the right time, and upgrade your digging tools to dig faster • Find lazy workers and tap to wake them up • Explore iconic maps with archaeological themes: Easter Island, Egyptian Pyramids, and more! • Uncover the mysterious history behind relics and historical remains KEY FEATURES • Super-duper satisfying game! Casual gameplay! Perfect time killer! • Beautiful and refreshing animations and low-poly 3D graphics • Three well-designed thematic maps waiting for you to explore • Automatic digging and mining • Get idle gold coins, even when you are sleeping! • Lots of gifts: daily rewards, lucky wheel, and more! Get some free stuff every day! Mini Digger introduces you to an intriguing way to spend your free time with pleasure, relax your mind and learn background stories about ancient treasures. The delightful simulation idle mining game is definitely worth a try! All it takes for your mining journey to unfold is you!

About

Dig Adventure

Engage in a deeply satisfying sandbox digging experience. Collect soil, process it into valuable materials, and sell them to customers. Discover rare artifacts and gems, and showcase your finds in a museum to earn revenue.

Highlights
  • Satisfying sandbox digging
  • Collect and process soil
  • Discover artifacts and gems
  • Manage a museum
  • Upgrade tools and character
  • One-joystick controls
Features
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This game contains a very satisfying sandbox digging experience. You will collect soil by digging, drop them into your panning machine and produce valuable materials. Then you can load them into your truck and sell to the customers. You can find very valuable artifacts and gems in the ground if you are lucky. Besides you will have a museum to show what you find beneath the ground. Tourists will come and pay money to see the museum. Digging gets harder and harder as you unlock new soils. So you need to upgrade your shovel and your character to do things easier. Features - Easy to play with just one joystick to do all the work - Addictive & satisfying digging and stacking - Manage your dig site & museum - Upgrade all of your buildings, your character and your truck

Screenshots

Mini Digger4 screens
Dig Adventure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dig Adventure at 4.5 against Mini Digger's 4.0. Dig Adventure also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (743 vs 96). Mini Digger's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mini Digger sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Dig Adventure sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dig Adventure holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dig Adventure has 743 ratings behind it against 96, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Mini Digger's written reviews are positive against 36% of Dig Adventure's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mini Digger ships an update every 3 weeks, Dig Adventure every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mini Digger versus Dig Adventure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMini DiggerDig Adventure
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (96 ratings)4.5 (743 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews36.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings96743 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB217 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChengdu Warrior Tech LimitedUDO GAMES OYUN YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI

Customer experience

Mini Digger

All ratings96 ratings
Positive74.0%
Neutral3.1%
Negative22.9%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive28.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative64.6%

Dig Adventure

All ratings743 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.5%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive36.0%
Neutral22.0%
Negative42.0%

User reviews

Mini Digger

From 96 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun to play
  • 👍 Good graphics
  • 👍 Satisfying mining sounds
  • 👍 Good game idea
  • 👍 Good for passing time

Room to improve

  • 광고 Excessive ads
  • 🐛 Game won't load/start
  • 🐛 Login issues
  • 🐛 Short game length (few levels)
  • 🐛 Paid ad removal doesn't work

Dig Adventure

From 743 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive and chill game
  • 🚀 Satisfying gameplay loop
  • 💡 Interesting game concept

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🔒 Inappropriate ads
  • 🐛 Loss of progress and data

Bugs and requests

Mini Digger

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Won't load
  • Login failed (Apple/Guest)
  • Initialization error
  • Game won't start
  • App is slow
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  • Paid for no ads but still have ads
  • Game locked at end of third stage
  • Subscription not appearing in Apple subscriptions
  • Crashing/erroring out on login
  • Cannot get offline rewards

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more levels/maps
  • Add trucks
  • Add diggers permanently
  • Improve ad removal functionality
  • Add Russian language support

Dig Adventure

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Upgrade to quality 19 breaks the game
  • Helpers getting stuck
  • Losing keys to progress to next level
  • Inability to send items to museum
  • Inability to dig or collect money

Requested features

6 requests
  • More things to spend money on
  • Ability to refill excavated areas and use dynamite
  • Customizable artifact display
  • New types of artifacts to dig up
  • Larger museum and display count
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  • Ability to recover blocks that fly out of bounds

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mini Digger

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Subscription 9.99$9.991 Month
One-time9
  • Beginner Pack 0.99$0.99
  • Beginner Pack 2$1.99
  • Beginner Pack$2.99
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  • Remove interstitial ads$2.99
  • Second Scene Pack$4.99
  • Super Miner 9.99$9.99
  • Armor Miner 9.99$9.99
  • Monthly Card$9.99
  • Double revenue 10.99$10.99
10 purchases

Dig Adventure

One-time10
  • Devil Woman Skin$0.99
  • Rocker Woman Skin$0.99
  • Pirate Man Skin$0.99
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  • Santa Man Skin$0.99
  • Swimmer Woman Skin$0.99
  • Super Girl Skin$1.99
  • Thor Skin$1.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Money Offer$7.99
  • VIP Offer$12.99

Questions

Is Mini Digger free?
Mini Digger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dig Adventure free?
Dig Adventure is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mini Digger or Dig Adventure?
Dig Adventure is rated higher. Mini Digger averages 4.0 out of 5 from 96 ratings, while Dig Adventure averages 4.5 from 743 ratings.
Do Mini Digger or Dig Adventure have ads?
Both Mini Digger and Dig Adventure show ads.
Which is updated more often, Mini Digger or Dig Adventure?
Mini Digger ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dig Adventure every 8 days. Most recently, Mini Digger was updated on October 21, 2026 and Dig Adventure on October 19, 2026.

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