UPTIME vs Impossible to Dig
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UPTIME
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Your phone is a datacenter. Keep it alive. UPTIME is an idle/incremental game with a twist: the whole screen is a real ops console. Tap to serve requests, build infrastructure for passive revenue… then drop everything when the pager rings. ACTIVE INCIDENTS — not your average idle When things break, you don't just watch. DIAGNOSE the failing service from live logs, run the RUNBOOK in the right order, then STABILIZE before uptime hits zero. Every second of downtime costs you. BUILD AND SCALE From a single bare-metal server to planet-scale: load balancers, Kubernetes, CDNs, edge, satellite uplinks and beyond. 14 tiers of infrastructure, your datacenter visualized rack by rack. CLIMB THE LADDER 13 SRE career ranks, from Junior to Uptime Immortal. Resolve incidents, earn promotions, prove yourself in SEV0 gauntlets. PRESTIGE FOREVER Migrate your architecture for permanent multipliers, then found new startups for Equity. The growth never ends. HARDCORE MODE Separate save, brutal incidents, moving QTEs, rack thermals and meltdowns. For those who want the pager from hell — with exclusive cosmetic rewards. LEGENDARY INCIDENTS Rare, named outages (BGP Hijack, Certificate Apocalypse, DNS Doomsday…) with a unique Triage Storm climax. MAKE IT YOURS 20+ unlockable themes with live effects. Game Center leaderboards and achievements. Dozens of secrets to find. FAIR BY DESIGN No pay-to-win. Ever. In-app purchases are cosmetic only; ads are opt-in and rewarded. The game plays exactly the same whether you spend or not. Built for anyone who's ever been on call — and anyone who likes watching numbers go up. Stay green.
Impossible to Dig
This idle clicker game simulates the painstaking task of digging a well with a needle. Earn tools by digging, not by purchasing, and progress at your own pace with no ads or timers. Unlock new areas with a single purchase after completing the free initial well.
- Idle clicker gameplay
- Earn tools through digging
- No ads or timers
- Offline play supported
- Unlock new digging areas
- Shareable progress cards
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In Turkish, "digging a well with a needle" means doing something impossibly slowly. Here you actually do it: you have one sewing needle, the water in the first well is twelve metres down, and every tap digs 0.2 millimetres. All of it plays out on a Karagöz shadow-play screen: the village, the layers of earth and the tools are cut from leather, with a lamp behind them. The whole well is always on screen, so you can see how close the needle is to the water. The ground gives things back as you dig: old coins, bones, bits of pottery. Trade them for new tools: a safety pin, a nail, a spoon, and a bucket that keeps digging while the app is closed. Tools are never sold; every one of them is dug up. Above the well is a small village. Muhtar Kemal, Nazmiye Teyze, Demirci Hüseyin and Küçük Zeynep keep an eye on your progress and have something to say about it now and then. When the water comes up, the village changes too, and the tea house starts smoking again. The first well, the Old Yard, is free all the way to the water, and you can try the Garden for free up to its first root. The other four plots open with a single one-time purchase; there is no subscription. There are no ads, no energy bar and no timers either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Impossible to Dig at none against UPTIME's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. UPTIME sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Impossible to Dig sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
UPTIME ships an update every 4 days, Impossible to Dig every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UPTIME | Impossible to Dig |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mathieu Vigne | Aytac YILMAZ |
In-app purchases
UPTIME
- Cyber Pack$2.99
- Cosmic Pack$2.99
- Cozy Pack$2.99
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- Supporter - Enterprise Plan$3.99
Impossible to Dig
- The Rest of Kuyuköy$1.99









