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Help identifying an old game? (self.games)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by finestnothing to c/games
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I've been trying to find a game that I played probably 10 or so years ago. I thought the name was digiminer or digimon or something like that but I know it's not those games.

The game (from what I remember) was about mining as a robot or in a ship of some sort. It was 2d. Whenever you mined areas it dropped pixels to be picked up that you had to fly/jump/move over to. I think it had a vacuum that you equipped to grab everything? You could upgrade and such to mine faster/larger and have a better pickup area. The mining area was mainly on the right side of the screen I think, the left side was all empty. The game was fully free, and I'm pretty sure that to run it you had it all downloaded in a file then ran the .exe.

I could be getting some of the ideas wrong, it's been a long time since I played or saw the game If anyone can help identify this game I'd appreciate it! I've been trying to find it for a few years, I remember it being a fun time sink

Edit: the game was dig-n-rig by digipen

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possibly Dig-N-Rig, although you dig to the left.

[–] finestnothing 10 points 1 year ago

This is exactly it, thank you so much! The digipen must've been why I was thinking digiminer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Kinda sounds like the flash game Motherload

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s what I was thinking. Just got a nice tinge of nostalgia from this comment ☺️

[–] finestnothing 2 points 1 year ago

Another commenter got it, the game I was remembering is dig-n-rig

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tried it a bit, doesn't quite sound like what op is describing, though, there's no vacuuming or things being dropped on the floor and the mining is downwards.

https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's more or less what it sounds like to me too, might be a different but might still be close enough to scratch that sme itch.

[–] kronickhigh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like starbound to me.

[–] finestnothing 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't, it's dig-n-rig. That said, I really need to redownload Starbound, it's been a while since I've played it but I remember it being a lot of fun too

[–] kronickhigh 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, glad you were able to figure it out. As for starbound, only game in my steam library with 200 hours of playtime lol.