Originally released onto PC platforms in 2018, Dig or Die from Gaddy Games has finally made its way over to the world of console, as Dig or Die: Console Edition. Will you be able to survive your first nights on this alien planet, fend off the freakish monsters out for your blood, and figure out a way off this hell, once and for all?
All Alone Again…
As a member of the mining company CRAFT & Co, you have found yourself crash-landed on an alien planet, with very little in the form of a friend. That is unless you count your AI companion, but who would? In this Terraria-style blocky survival game, you’ll have to quickly harvest any and all resources you can find from the ground, before making your own rudimentary shelter.
As you progress through Dig or Die: Console Edition, you’ll slowly explore more of this expansive world, and the caves and mountains it has to offer, before upgrading your laser weapons to fend off the alien baddies that call this world their home. Ultimately, the goal is to escape on a new spaceship, but perhaps this is but a pipedream…
So, start mining the world, build a house, get your weapons in order, and then dispose of the monsters along the way. Got it?
Key Features
- Fun from the start: no awfully slow digging, so you can concentrate on the exploration, fights and strategy.
- Game’s final objective: you must build a rocket ship to escape the planet.
- Strategy survival: the game is a survival game in a strategic meaning. No hunger needs, the whole point of the game is to survive to the massive attacks each night. And to do that, you will have to explore the world to gather resources and craft your defenses.
- No swords, magic or flying clown monsters here! It’s a consistent science-fiction world, with fast and fun laser guns fights!
- Intelligent monsters: they will find the best path to attack your defenses. And be careful: even if they can’t move through walls, they can still destroy them!
- Difficulty progression: only the species of monsters you have already killed before attack during the night (they must have taken ill!). So you can progress at your own pace and choose when you are ready to move forward and fight stronger monsters.
- AI companion: your crashed ship contains an AI that survived and will give you useful advices (or not!). Build him a drone so he can follow you and even help you fight the monsters!
- Huge world with global real-time simulation of the environment, physics, water cycle and lighting.
- Electricity: build solar panels or functional hydroelectric generators to power your base’s most advanced items!
- Plants simulation: plants naturally grow and spread if their life-conditions are met. Create some farms with artificial sun lamps and irrigation.
- Procedurally generated world: Major areas locations are specific to benefit from a logical game progression, but detailed layout of surface, caverns, ores, etc. are unique at each playthrough.
- Crafting: You dig minerals, harvest plants and kill some monsters and bosses in order to craft better items and defenses. But the digging is really fast, your inventory space is infinite and all crafting recipes are displayed, so you don’t waste all your time on grinding or wikis and can concentrate on setting up better defenses.
- Base construction: You build a fortress, not a holiday house. So you won’t find hundreds of flowerpots or tapestries, but rather turrets, strong walls and useful machines. Remember the Starship Troopers or Aliens movies atmosphere!
Buy Today!
With tons to do and acres of land to explore, fans of the survival genre should certainly take a look at Dig or Die: Console Edition. It’s now available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5 and PS4.
Check it out for £8.79 via the Xbox Store today, and keep your eyes peeled for our full review, coming soon!
Game Description
You are a representative of the CRAFT & Co company.
You are selling automated fabrication tools across the galaxy when your spacecraft crashes into a hostile planet where you’ll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it.
But be warned… this planet is merciless.
Use the tools you sell and the local resources to build up all of what you’ll need to survive and eventually be able to escape the planet.
Explore, fight, craft and build your defenses!
