A Game About Digging A Hole Hits Four Thousand Players On Steam
A Game About Digging A Hole is just that. This indie game has had a strong launch today, continuing the common trend on Steam of popular absurd games.
Today, a new indie game launched on Steam with a peculiar name, but with steadily growing concurrent player numbers. A Game About Digging A Hole is just what it sounds like. Players begin in a yard and use various tools to dig a hole deeper and deeper. The concept sounds simple, but the game launched this morning and at the time of writing it already has over four-thousand concurrent players.
A Game About Digging A Hole, unsurprisingly, is exactly what you expect, but it still draws huge numbers on Steam
Steam has the largest number of games on any platform. This means that most of the best games are available, but it also means that some of the most strange and unexpected ones are here too. Players on Steam are always happy to participate in an absurd game. Just look at Banana, a game where you literally just click a banana. It sounds unappealing, but believe it or not, it’s currently the tenth most played game on Steam, even though it’s been out for almost a year. At the time of writing there are 145 thousand players in-game right now, which is higher than Path of Exile 2 and Apex Legends.
A Game About Digging A Hole might not be quite to that level of absurdity, it does, after all, have some real gameplay. Once you get past the initial absurdity of using a small shovel to start digging a hole, players will start to find various treasures and valuables that they can exchange to upgrade their equipment. The trailer on Steam also teases a mystery waiting to be discovered in this underground world.
Recently, there have been several small indie games finding an audience on Steam. Games like the dice-driven RPG sequel, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and the chaotic co-op horror game The Headliners show the variety of unique games coming out every day. At the time of writing, A Game About Digging A Hole has an 89% positive review score out of 350 players. Players lament the game’s short time to complete, but many still admit they had a blast in that short time frame. With such a small price tag at $4.99, it might be worth trying out.
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