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Action indie game Dig or Die launched in 2018 from developer and publisher Gaddy Games. It has 3,848 Steam reviews marked mixed, and its initial price was $11.99.
Overview
Dig or Die is a 2018 Action game developed by Gaddy Games and published by Gaddy Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,856 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Gaddy Games with publisher Gaddy Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 174,000 to 405,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dig or Die can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,856
Positive
90%
Steam appid
315460
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0174K to 405K
units (median: 289K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dig or Die at roughly 174,000 to 405,000 copies, with a median around 289,000, derived from its 3,856 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $11.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dig or Die sold?
- indielist estimates Dig or Die has sold between 173,520 and 404,880 units (median 289,200), derived from its 3,856 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dig or Die?
- Dig or Die was developed by Gaddy Games and published by Gaddy Games.
- Who published Dig or Die?
- Dig or Die was published by Gaddy Games, developed by Gaddy Games. See Gaddy Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dig or Die released?
- Dig or Die was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Dig or Die have on Steam?
- Dig or Die has 3,856 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Dig or Die worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dig or Die 90% positive across 3,856 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Dig or Die can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Gaddy Games's other releases and Gaddy Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dig or Die sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dig or Die page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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