The Dig
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The Dig is an adventure developed by LucasArts, released 30 November 1995 on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 9 hrs to finish.
What The Dig is
The Dig is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCUMM.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Dig is a 1995 point-and-click adventure game developed by LucasArts for PC and Macintosh. Like other LucasArts adventure games, it uses the SCUMM video game engine. It is the last SCUMM game on MS-DOS. It features a full voice-acting cast, including voice actors Robert Patrick and Steve Blum, and a digital orchestral score. The game uses a combination of drawn two-dimensional artwork and limited, pre-rendered three-dimensional clips, with the latter created by Industrial Light & Magic.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Dig holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 21 points below the year average. Players rate it 64, 19 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Any 2002 era PC or better, 32 MB RAM and 2 MB - PCI Graphics Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Dig launched on 30 November 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Dig yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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