Comparison

The Process vs Deep Dig

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

Head to head
About

The Process

Features
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THE PROCESS โ€” Welcome to the Ethereal Foundry. Build a steam-and-steel factory, wire your stations together, and watch it produce. But growth never stops here: as your system wears down, REBOOT it for a permanent multiplier โ€” and grow faster next cycle. HOW TO PLAY โ€ข Start with the Boiler (input), route it through a Refinery, deliver it to the Emitter (output). โ€ข Unlock advanced stations as you progress: Furnace, Converter, Amplifier, Transmuter. โ€ข Use Coolant to slow degradation, and place stations smartly to trigger resonance and chain bonuses. A SYSTEM THAT DEEPENS โ€ข Blueprint Tree: spend points earned from every reboot on permanent perks. โ€ข Ascension: reset your factory a second time for Aether โ€” a passive multiplier plus the exclusive "Aether Conduit" station. โ€ข Daily Contracts + Shift Streak: fresh goals every day, rewards for showing up. โ€ข Weekly Trial: build a mini factory and compete on the global leaderboard. MAKE IT YOURS Earn pipe color palettes and node skins to give your factory a signature look โ€” never for sale, only earned by playing. FAIR AND TRANSPARENT Ads never play themselves. When you choose to watch one, you'll always see exactly what you're getting first. Your progress saves to the cloud automatically, so it survives a device switch. An idle/incremental factory game for players who love both hands-on tinkering and watching things grow in the background. The steam never stops. Is your factory ready?

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Deep Dig

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Deep Dig is an idle mining game built around one addictive question: will THIS tap be the big one? TAP TO DIG Smash through rock with every tap. Land a critical hit and a lamp lights up โ€” one more tap, and you break into a high-odds chain zone where crits can keep coming, tap after tap after tap. UPGRADE YOUR RIG Pour coins into Drill Power and Auto-Driller to dig faster, even while you are away. CORE UPGRADES + NEW GAME+ Reach the planet's core and earn permanent Cores, then start a fresh run with your upgrades carried over. Stack enough Cores across runs and your rig only gets stronger. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean. This release covers Stage 1 โ€” dig from the surface all the way down to 500m. Deeper stages, new ore, and more content are already in the works. Free to play, no purchase required. Optional video ads offer bonuses like stamina refills and coin boosts, entirely up to you. Start tapping. See how deep you can go.

Screenshots

The Process4 screens
Deep Dig3 screens

Verdict

The call

The Process and Deep Dig are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
The Process versus Deep Dig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe ProcessDeep Dig
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size78 MB35 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDeniz KayaAtsushi Ito

In-app purchases

None

The Process

No in-app purchases

None

Deep Dig

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Process free?
The Process is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deep Dig free?
Deep Dig is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Process or Deep Dig have ads?
Both The Process and Deep Dig show ads.

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