Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 15, 2014

  Not too bad a game Decent Physics The level rating system could use some tweaking and one of the buckets needs fixing Fun game full and fun enough to keep you busy for a little bit
• gamedeal user

  Oct 15, 2014

  For any simulation game, you want to experience the heart of the simulator as much as possible. The idea of a digging company would be to create a digging site for a big major contruction company or even mine a location down to size for money. Sadly, this game dosent have that. In my short play through this is what you get. You get a sandbox, where size decides how big your vehicles are, not the size of the location your working on. The location you work on is overly small with options to only a few vehicles. In sandbox, you do not buy vehicles. You can not even travel your lot. The map is so small you can travel it from one end to the other end in about 10 seconds. In short, the sandbox has no purpose. The campaign is, sad. You do create a company, but all your doing is going from lot to lot. It's boring, the money you get unlocks better vehicles, sadly thats all it does. Playing an hour of it is the most boring game I have. It would be more interesting if the city itself was freeroam. It would be great if you can roam a construction site instead of just a lot. What you get is a very short game with nothing going for it and sadly will scare away most modders that would come to a game to make it better. Secret to fixing the game? Make the map bigger, and make sandbox mean something more than just toying with small vehicles. Also in some maps your vehicles are too large for you to move around or even dig. Dumptrucks are also useless. I mean completely useless, its faster to drive to unload instead of unload to the dumptruck and dump on the other side of the map. The other side of the map is 7 to 12 seconds away. And thats not going 30 mph, or even close. Would only recommend this game to children. Too simple for adults to play.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 15, 2014

  Best digger sim I ever tried! Im using an XBOX One controller and it works perfectly, the two joysticks work just like the joysticks in a real excavator and the feel is actually pretty impressive considering its "just" a game. One thing that annoys me is, that the right joystick left/right is inverted on the excavators, so that the bucket tilt outwards when u move the joystick left and vice versa, while it shd be the other way around. U can easily invert the bucket control under settings, but while it fixes the issue for the excavators, it messes up the wheel loaders as theyre actually not wrong by default. Basically it means u have to constantly switch the "invert bucket" on and off according to when u switch between a wheel loader and an excavator, hopefully they will fix this in a patch soon. While the excavators have a nice feel of realism, the wheel loaders dont, they feel weird both when driving and when moving the arm and bucket. So it goes for the dumpers, first of all their sound is awful, nothing like the real thing at all, second the acceleration is almost instant and anyone who has driven one knows that theyre not the fastest things off the line, especially when carrying a full load, and finally their top speed is more or less about half of what it shd be. Its a bit hard to actually level dirt with the excavator using ur digging shovel, I know that there are a wide shovel for leveling, but the point is, that irl u do actually use digging shovels to level out small areas as u go. U cant dig with the leveling shovel, again I know u normally don't do that, but irl its done all the time when u need to move such small amounts of material that changing the shovel is too time consuming. Pushing material would be a neat feature too, like when u excavate and build a pile, u can push into the top of the pile, forcing the top to move away from u, leaving new space to unload ur shovel. None the less, those are minor issues and prolly something we'll see addressed in a future update. As for the XBOX controller support, it works great and it makes it easy to control the machines. Compared to other digging sims, this one has good control, good camera, nice physics and if u drive the excavator like u would with a real one, itll behave pretty much the same way. One thing that's really missing is the ability to control the excavators arm and belts at the same time, like irl when u need to drive up on the top of a pile of material, u use the shovel to grab hold on top of the pile while u drive and pull urself up; That really isn't possible in this sim and that's a real shame, because u can easily end up digging urself into material that u would normally be able to easily dig urself out of, IF u could use the arm and belts at the same time. Also forgot to mention in my initial review, that there are bugs, like suddenly a yellow button with no text appearing in the middle of the screen obstructing ur view. In addition, from time to time the excavator wont dig, when u put the shovel to the ground nothing happens no matter what u do.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2014

  I write this on the 27th October, almost two weeks after release. No patches yet. I might change my view later if the developer decides to upgrade Dig It! to something better, but I doubt it. This game has the potential to be a nice game. But it isn't a good game as it is when I write this. The areas you can "work" in, are so small you would belive it is an actual sandbox. You can hardly turn your vehicle inside some of the places (reminds me of Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, where he has to turn between two walls). The developer team chose to have awkward key combinations, instead of making them intuitive. You never have to drive the trucks and deliver sand or gravel, just drive to the gate and it is empty. How can they call that a simulator? Its not even close! Bugs. Lots of bugs and problems: -People are reporting they can't dig (it is a DIGGING SIMULATOR!!). -If you can dig, you can scrape the ground and get a pile of dirt from nothing. In fact you can produce dirt from nothing. -Camera is crap! I wonder how the developers played this game without noticing the camera-bugs. -If you try to exit a vehicle close to another object, you start to fly... you can see the whole city from up in the air while you fall down again. -There is no animation for the people sitting in the machines. None at all! How come the developers never did think of that? Conclusion: I would give this game a 1.5/10 (where 0.5 points is for nice colours). I recommend you give your money to charity instead of buying this game.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 5, 2014

  Fun little game, worth the price! Graphics and physics work pretty well and the sounds are great. Vehicle models are well done. If you want to dig then this is the best I've ever found. GunninGamerz on YouTube/Twitch
• gamedeal user

  Apr 22, 2017

  I'm an experienced operator so I already know about heavy equipment. So I will make my comparison based on that. For the most part, the stick controls are correct. It does feel like a real excavator. So all my skills and nuances translated perfectly into this simulation, albeit a few changes. The controls for the tracks, however, don't feel right because of the right shoulder used as a modifier. It just feels weird pressing that then the sticks. The digging aspect seems nominal at most. You don't see every grain of sand going into the bucket due to game engine limitations so its mostly graphically and mathematically simplified. What it doesn't do is (1) sloping, (2) bucket grading, and (3) platforming. Sloping is important because you need to have certain trenches at a certain angle of repose; an angular ratio between its verticality and its horizontalness. Most common sands are good with 1:1 ratios, wetter stuff could be like 3:2 and it matters greatly because of the chances of a trench collapse. The game doesn't do sloping very well, nor does the sand contour with the bucket at all, so you are left with pregenerated, precalculated sloping angles that it thinks sand can do. The bucket can't grade those slopes either. All the bucket does, on its back side, is bump into the sand (even with just a tiny windrow) or bounce off it. Even the bulldozer got stuck on a simple windrow. Not very realistic... which is fine, but I prefer the ability to manipulate sand to my needs. Platforms are one such need. Most times, ground isn't always level. In gravel pits, you dig and dig and dig until all the sand around the machine is gone. And each time you grab a full bucket, you already chancing to tip over unless you have a stable foundation to dig from. Even then, depending on your counter weight, you might tip if you grab wet stuff when fully extended and perpendicular to the tracks. Sometimes you gotta fix your foundation or slope yourself up it before grabbing. And when you're done, you gotta get off the foundation (which is probably a platform by then) which is no safe feat. Sometimes you gotta make a platform to get up on to grab the fill. The game doesn't let you spear into the sand to pull the machine, nor does it let you push the machine up or down the hill. Nor does the angle of the machine's tilt matters, you dig without worry of tipping. The camera controls are wonky and it's weird operating from third person. I don't know whose idea it was to have the horizontal controls of the camera to spring. That was just an idiotic design decision. You need the camera to follow the bucket or look where you need to without these interferences. The other machines (loader, truck, and dozer), kind of follow the flaws of the excavator too. The dozer can seriously do without the right shoulder modifier being pressed. I also noticed that there's no vertical tilt or horizontal angling on the blade. It's just a raise and lower dozer blade. (Might be a feature exclusive to D4 Cat dozers though). This makes the final grade an annoying task not because of the top level, but the sloping can't be done very well or at all. And as I said previously, it stops dead on a simple windrow. In the real world, even a small D4 bulldozer can cut through gravel like its butter. Here, the game doesn't do that. No real comments about the front end loader or the truck. Ultimately, I think the game is only fine as a simplistic digger only game. It does not have the additional nuances I wished it did have. I recommend it only as a taste of heavy equipment but nothing more serious than that.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 20, 2018

  "Oh sweet, an excavator simulator. Perfect for my 2 joysticks!" Except that the game does not support it! All the effort to make a "simulator" that does not support twin joysticks.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 17, 2020

  Fun game, just wish I could change the controls! Also the devs abandoned the game lol
• gamedeal user

  Oct 28, 2020

  It's good but plz add a backhoe
• gamedeal user

  Mar 17, 2021

  this is a great game for someone that wants to simply move dirt. it's not a sim, just fun.