Starting off in a typical suburban back garden or yard, your only task is to dig a hole... And that's it.
With standard first-person controls, you dig/drill by pressing or holding the 'R' trigger, jump or jet pack with the 'L' trigger and that's about it. As you dig you soon find stones, and can sell them for profit on your garage PC. These profits can be spent on upgrading your gear–your spade, inventory, battery, and jet pack.
Starting out with a crappy little shovel this can be upgraded to various better shovels, spades and eventually some sort of amazing vacuum-drill. Your inventory (where you store what you've dug up) can be upgraded in size 8 times or so, as can your battery (this powers your digging tool) and jet pack, which allows you to ascend from the hole easily, and also descend more safely when it gets really deep.
Extras include lighting for the dark areas and dynamite to break up large rock formations, and what looks suspiciously like lava…
Soon after finding stones, digging deeper reveals Coal, Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. After a couple of playthroughs we found the ultra-rare rainbow ore as well.
The more valuable ores obviously fetch a better price when you sell, while taking up the same space in your inventory, so it's best to dig deep as soon as possible, while making sure you can extricate yourself from your hole when your inventory is full by keeping an eye on your battery level (you get a low battery warning) and upgrading your jet pack periodically–you really don't want to run out of battery!
I guarantee you'll keep digging until you can't dig any more, it gives out easy achievements and it's just as well that the game reminds you to save periodically–I won't spoil the surprise and tell you what the treasure is that you find at the bottom!
Graphically simplistic yet pleasing to look at, this is a game that just makes the time disappear. A Game About Digging A Hole is priced at only £4.29 and is currently on Game Pass–You'd be daft not to try it.
Many thanks to DoubleBee, Rokaplay, Headup and PressEngine for the review code.