Comparison

Dig Rare vs Gorge

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

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About

Dig Rare

Embark on an addictive mining adventure to unearth valuable minerals and hidden treasures. Sell your findings for cash or craft powerful items to increase profits. Upgrade your tools and explore deeper to become an underground tycoon.

Highlights
  • Dig for minerals and treasures
  • Craft powerful items
  • Upgrade pickaxe and tools
  • Discover mystery minerals
  • Become an underground tycoon
Features
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Pickaxe, Profit, and a Pocket Full of Mystery! Ever dreamed of striking it rich with just a pickaxe and a big dream? In this addictive mining adventure, you’ll dig deep to uncover valuable minerals, mysterious rocks, and hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. Sell what you find for instant cash — or take it to the next level by crafting powerful batteries that sell for way more. Upgrade your pickaxe, buy tools like dynamite and torches, and keep your gear in top shape—because a worn-out pickaxe won't get you far. And just when you think you’ve seen it all... Boom! You crack open a mystery mineral and discover something totally unexpected. Repair, upgrade, explore, repeat. Will you become just another miner… or a legendary underground tycoon? Start digging. Fortune favors the bold.

About

Gorge

Engage in a unique multiplayer digging arcade game where you grow by consuming, and your own body becomes a weapon. Navigate diverse terrains, outmaneuver opponents, and strategically use your environment to win. Death is a quick restart, with no ads or lengthy interruptions.

Highlights
  • Grow by eating to become longer
  • Use your body as a weapon
  • Strategic boost mechanic
  • Diverse country-specific terrains
  • Permanent tunnel banking
  • Unlockable digger characters
Features
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Snake went underground, and it came back mean. You are a digger. You eat to grow. Longer makes you a wall, and the tunnels you carve are the only map anyone down there gets. There is no shooting and no dodging. You kill the way the old cabinets made you kill: you make the other one run into something solid. Your own body, or rock nobody has dug yet. The arena is not the stage you fight on. It is the weapon. TWO INPUTS. THAT IS THE WHOLE CABINET. Steer and boost. Touch anywhere to steer, push past the ring to boost. No ability bar, no cooldowns, no tutorial, nothing to memorise before your first run. If you have ever played Snake, you already know the hard part. BOOST COSTS BODY. Doubling your speed spends the length you ate for, and you cannot spend past the floor. Every chase is a trade against your own size. Boosting into un-dug rock kills you, so speed is never free. DEATH IS A DOORWAY. No defeat screen. No placement summary. No confirm button, and never an ad. You die, your remains feed whoever was standing over you, and you are in a fresh arena in under a second. Insert nothing. Go again. ENDLESS FOR YOU. NOT FOR THE ARENA. Arenas take joiners for a while, then lock. After the lock nobody new arrives, the bots forfeit the field, and every death is a permanent removal. The pool only gets smaller. The last digger down there wins, which means one player gets a win and nobody gets a loss. THEN THE GROUND COMES BACK. Chew through enough rock and it starts caving in. The walls you spent the whole run removing return exactly when the field is at its smallest, and a wall is how you kill. The floor keeps a way through, always. You will never be sealed in. You may well be sealed in with someone. DIG REAL COUNTRIES. Every country is different rock. Cave chambers under the United States, with no walls to cut against. Roots that grow back over your tunnels in Brazil, so map control is temporary. Victorian brickwork under the United Kingdom that everyone can use and nobody can dig. Sinkhole shafts in Mexico that drop you between layers. Lava tubes in Iceland you can ride but never cut. Sand in Egypt that takes your tunnels back everywhere except the Nile. Australia, the hardest rock in the game, where every metre is earned. WHAT YOU ATE IS ON YOUR BACK. Your tail shows the minerals you swallowed, in the order you swallowed them. A rival's whole run is legible at a glance, which makes a fat digger a target rather than an obstacle. THE NATIONAL SURVEY. Every tunnel you cut is banked permanently against that country's explored percentage, and collapse never takes it back. Play the campaign to earn the roster: a mole rat, a tunnel drill, a cave salamander that outruns anything in water, a fungal network, an acid ooze, an auger, a root drill, a pipeline layer. Sidegrades, never upgrades. A digger unlocked late is never simply stronger than the one you started with.

Screenshots

Dig Rare4 screens
Gorge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Gorge at 5.0 against Dig Rare's 1.0. Gorge also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dig Rare sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gorge asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gorge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dig Rare ships an update fortnightly, Gorge weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dig Rare versus Gorge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDig RareGorge
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size464 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmelly CatBeacon Light Investments

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dig Rare

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$9.99
None

Gorge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dig Rare free?
Dig Rare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gorge free?
Gorge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dig Rare or Gorge?
Gorge is rated higher. Dig Rare averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gorge averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Dig Rare or Gorge have ads?
Dig Rare shows ads; Gorge does not.
Which is updated more often, Dig Rare or Gorge?
Dig Rare ships an update fortnightly, and Gorge weekly. Most recently, Dig Rare was updated on October 30, 2026 and Gorge on October 31, 2026.

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