Keep Digging

Keep Digging

Released Sep 2025

Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

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Evaluation

Keep Digging launched on September 11, 2025, and has seen consistent developer activity since. Wild Dog disclosed in a December 2, 2025 post that the studio had been in a precarious financial state during 2025, but that the game's unexpected popularity gave them a viable path forward — and they followed through on that promise. Version 2.0 launched on April 28, 2026 as a sweeping free update that effectively rebuilt the game as a survival crafting experience, adding a procedurally generated 5,000-meter underground world, over 350 items, new smelting, forging, and enchantment systems, PvP elements, and multiplayer for up to 8 players. The developer explicitly chose to release this as a free update rather than paid DLC or a sequel, as a gesture of gratitude to players. Since Version 2.0's release, Wild Dog has shipped a steady stream of follow-up patches addressing performance, stability, and balance. Notable among these: a major performance overhaul on July 15, 2026 (v2.1.0.9805), a hotfix the same day, and a memory reduction update on July 20, 2026 (v2.1.1.10471). The developer explicitly stated in the July 20 patch notes that they "will continue working to reduce memory usage and improve stability," and the crash reporter was enhanced to collect ongoing feedback for further fixes. No specific future content (new DLC, expansions, or named updates) has been announced, and no "final update" statement has been made. Wild Dog is also developing a separate new title, DMZ: Nuclear Survival, announced in December 2025, but Keep Digging itself continues to receive active developer attention. The most recent communication from the developer was July 20, 2026.
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Version 2.0 launched as a massive free overhaul, rebuilding the game with a new procedurally generated world, 350+ items, smelting, forging, enchantments, PvP, and multiplayer for up to 8 players.
news post · Apr 28, 2026 source content shipped
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Developer disclosed studio was in a serious financial crisis in 2025 but that Keep Digging's success provided a path forward; announced Version 2.0 as a free update and revealed a separate new title, DMZ: Nuclear Survival, in development.
news post · Dec 2, 2025 source development ongoing
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Developer
Publisher
Wild Dog
Achievements
75
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP

About this game

What is Keep Digging?

Keep Digging is a multiplayer digging survival craft game where up to 8 players dig through an underground world, bring materials back home, craft equipment, and dive even deeper.

Version 2.0 greatly overhauls the game systems and map. It adds a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, more than 350 items, inventory management, the smelter, forging, enchantments, and more, turning everything you dig up into progress for your character.

Dig, Bring It Back, Build

Gather ores and materials underground, bring them back to base, and use the smelter to turn them into ingots. Then forge your own equipment using blueprints found while exploring.

  • More than 350 items to discover

  • An inventory system for managing materials and equipment

  • Use the smelter to turn mined ores into ingots

  • Forge equipment from blueprints found underground

  • Equipment, blueprints, and orbs have quality levels, so the same item can perform differently

Search for better materials, craft better equipment, and dig even deeper. What you bring back from each dig changes what you can do on the next expedition.

Build Your Gear With Enchantments

Create mysterious orbs with random effects from Gemstones. By combining orbs and stacking multiple effects, you can build equipment that fits your play style.

  • Random stats are added when creating or combining orbs

  • Enhance digging efficiency, movement, exploration, and more

  • Effect combinations can greatly change equipment performance

  • Keep refining your setup to create your own equipment set

Aim for the ultimate gear so you can dig deeper, faster, and stronger.


A Procedurally Generated 5000m Underground World

In Version 2.0, the underground world has been completely renewed. The 5000m-deep map is procedurally generated, so each playthrough brings different terrain, treasure chests, fossils, and exploration routes.

  • A completely new 5000m-deep map

  • A different underground world every time through procedural generation

  • Many more treasure chests, fossils, and discoveries

  • Digging deeper matters, but securing a route back is just as important

This is not just about digging straight down. Explore your surroundings, search for materials and blueprints, and build a route that lets you return safely.

Multiplayer for Up to 8 Players

Online multiplayer supports up to 8 players. Explore the underground world together with friends, or enjoy the tension of competing for items through PvP.

  • Online multiplayer for up to 8 players

  • Explore the underground world in co-op with friends

  • PvP elements create item-stealing encounters between players

  • Bring equipment and money earned in single-player with you

  • Items found in other players' worlds can also be taken back to your own world

Costumes such as samurai and gorilla outfits, along with emotes that have special effects, let you customize your character. Change your look and make underground exploration even more fun.

Version 1.0 Legacy Mode

Version 1.0 remains playable. Select Legacy Mode from the title screen to enjoy the previous version of Keep Digging. Version 2.0 and Version 1.0 use separate save data, so you can play either version whenever you like.

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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