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ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG cover art

ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG

BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. · BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment · 2016-04-19

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Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 20, 2016 (Xbox One), Apr 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

First appearing in arcades in 1982, Dig Dug finally comes to Steam! Control Dig Dug to make underground tunnels and inflate or crush the enemies!

0
playing now
89%
positive of 647 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Dig Dug is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released by Atari, Inc. in North America. The player digs underground tunnels to attack enemies in each level, by either inflating them to bursting or crushing them underneath rocks.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 647 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2016-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.992016-04-202026-08-292016-04-20 — best price $3.992017-01-30 — best price $3.992017-09-14 — best price $0.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992019-01-10 — best price $1.992019-03-28 — best price $3.992019-06-10 — best price $1.992019-09-05 — best price $1.992019-11-12 — best price $3.992019-12-19 — best price $1.992020-01-23 — best price $1.992020-05-06 — best price $3.992020-09-24 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-05-06 — best price $3.992021-11-24 — best price $1.992022-02-03 — best price $3.992022-06-23 — best price $0.992022-09-12 — best price $3.992022-12-05 — best price $0.992023-01-23 — best price $3.992023-05-15 — best price $0.992023-07-31 — best price $3.992023-12-22 — best price $3.192024-05-06 — best price $3.992024-09-09 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $3.992025-12-11 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-08-29 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2571602026-06-01 — 211 pageviews2026-06-04 — 220 pageviews2026-06-07 — 214 pageviews2026-06-10 — 247 pageviews2026-06-13 — 203 pageviews2026-06-16 — 202 pageviews2026-06-19 — 186 pageviews2026-06-22 — 167 pageviews2026-06-25 — 182 pageviews2026-06-28 — 212 pageviews2026-07-01 — 207 pageviews2026-07-04 — 170 pageviews2026-07-07 — 216 pageviews2026-07-10 — 178 pageviews2026-07-13 — 257 pageviews2026-07-16 — 219 pageviews2026-07-19 — 198 pageviews2026-07-22 — 212 pageviews2026-07-25 — 195 pageviews2026-07-28 — 211 pageviews2026-07-31 — 194 pageviews2026-08-03 — 212 pageviews2026-08-06 — 189 pageviews2026-08-09 — 188 pageviews2026-08-12 — 200 pageviews2026-08-15 — 227 pageviews2026-08-18 — 165 pageviews2026-08-21 — 199 pageviews2026-08-24 — 221 pageviews2026-08-27 — 183 pageviews2026-08-29 — 182 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)12,55634%21
Xbox One (Xbox)8,4939%20
Steam (Steam)3,6457%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2D1980sRetroActionArcadeClassicSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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