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Backyard Digger

Milord · 2025-09-30

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 30, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A relaxing physics-based game about digging in your backyard. Find precious metals, explore caves, avoid dangers, and upgrade your tools as you dig deeper and deeper.

Backyard Digger is an Adventure game released in 2025, priced at $7.99, with a Positive review sentiment (86% of 44 reviews).

86%
positive of 44 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620252026Week of 2025-09-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

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