Comparison

Ground Digger! vs Keep Drilling

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 !

About

Keep Drilling

Experience a realistic drilling simulation where only a small percentage of players reach the ground. Test your skills in this challenging game.

Highlights
  • Realistic drilling simulation
  • Challenging gameplay
  • High difficulty
  • Single-player experience
Features
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Real drill game!

Screenshots

Ground Digger!4 screens
Keep Drilling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ground Digger! at 4.4 against Keep Drilling's 2.0. Ground Digger! also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and ratings volume (7.1K vs 1). Keep Drilling's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ground Digger! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Keep Drilling asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ground Digger! holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ground Digger! has 7.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Ground Digger!'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Keep Drilling's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ground Digger! versus Keep Drilling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGround Digger!Keep Drilling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7.1K ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews41.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7.1K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.511.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB150 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHOMA GAMESOzan Kasikci

Customer experience

Ground Digger!

All ratings7,052 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews378 reviews
Positive41.3%
Neutral14.6%
Negative44.2%

Keep Drilling

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and 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

Keep Drilling

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ground Digger!

One-time10
  • Companion Limit$1.99
  • Double Fuel$1.99
  • No Ads$2.99
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  • Size Upgrade 1$2.99
  • Size Upgrade 2$2.99
  • Large Chest$3.99
  • Destroyer Skin Bundle$3.99
  • Digger Skin Starter Pack$3.99
  • Extra Starter Bundle$3.99
  • Small Starter Bundle$4.99
None

Keep Drilling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ground Digger! free?
Ground Digger! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keep Drilling free?
Keep Drilling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ground Digger! or Keep Drilling?
Ground Digger! is rated higher. Ground Digger! averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7.1K ratings, while Keep Drilling averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ground Digger! or Keep Drilling have ads?
Both Ground Digger! and Keep Drilling show ads.

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