A Game About Digging A Hole Together Hits 4 December, Day One on Game Pass

The game where you dig a hole is back, and now your mates can stand around in the hole with you. A Game About Digging A Hole Together got a release date at the ID@Xbox showcase: 4 December 2026, on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and on Game Pass from day one.

If you missed the original, it really was just a game about digging a hole. You dig down from a beach, sell the rocks and ore you find, upgrade your shovel and keep going deeper. One developer made it in a few weeks. It went viral and sold more than a million copies. Sometimes the simple idea wins.

What’s new: four shovels instead of one

• Online co-op for up to four players. You and up to three mates dig, sell and upgrade together. You can still play solo if your mates have better things to do.
• Cross-platform play. The Steam page lists cross-platform multiplayer and the publisher says online play works across platforms. Exactly which platforms can join each other hasn’t been spelled out, so don’t count on PS5-to-Xbox lobbies just yet.
• New beach, more stuff to find. There’s a new sunny beach setting plus new terrain types, tools, hidden items and “underground secrets”. There’s still a treasure buried somewhere deep under the sand.
• A proper team behind it. Vienna studio Mipumi Games is developing it. They’ve done work on Alan Wake 2, Control and Hitman. The original developer is still involved. The code has been rebuilt so it should run better, and the digging tech comes from an early version of Solarpunk.

Release date, platforms and price

• Xbox and PC on Game Pass: 4 December 2026, confirmed on Xbox Wire. That covers Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Cloud.
• Also coming to: Steam, the Epic Games Store, PS5 and Switch 2, according to the publishers, rokaplay and Shochiku. Reports from the showcase list 4 December for those too. But the Steam page still says “To be announced”, so we’re treating day-one launches on every platform as likely, not locked in.
• Price: not announced. For reference, the original is NZ$7.39 / A$7.50 on Steam, and it’s 45% off right now (NZ$4.06 / A$4.12).

The original holds up

A Game About Digging A Hole came out on Steam on 7 February 2025 from DoubleBee. It still sits at “Very Positive” from more than 20,000 reviews, with about 89% recommending it. That’s a lot of love for something you can finish in an afternoon. It went viral on social media, broke into Steam’s top 30 and, according to the publishers, sold over a million copies on PC before it came to consoles.

Our take

We’ll be honest: “the hole game, but with friends” sounds like a joke, and it might be the best co-op idea of the year. The original was a satisfying loop in a tiny package: dig, sell, upgrade, dig deeper. Throw four people into the same pit and there’ll be arguments about who gets to use the drill, and someone digging straight under their mate. That’s half the fun.

It’s also the first game made for GetRekt’s Wardogs Blue Team. Nobody on the planet has more experience digging themselves into a hole. They walked into Lonestar on purpose, won about 10% of their matches, and got bribed to stay before the bribe was taken off them within a day. A game where going lower counts as progress is the closest thing to a win they’ve had all year. Squad leader, put your hand up for the drill. Actually, no. Give it to someone else.

The risk is the usual one when a tiny viral game gets a sequel with a bigger team: it gets padded out with upgrade trees and grindy bits until it loses what made it work. Being on Game Pass from day one means there’s no risk for Xbox and PC players. Everyone else should wait for the price and some reviews. If it stays around the original’s price, it’s an easy call for a Friday night with the squad.

Are you digging with a squad on 4 December? Blue Team, you’re already down there, so save us a spot. Tell us in the comments, or go and find three mates with shovels in the GetRekt Discord.

Sources

• IGN: A Game About Digging A Hole Together, Official Release Date Trailer (ID@Xbox, 20 Oct)
• Xbox Wire: ID@Xbox x IGN Showcase recap (20 Oct)
• Steam: A Game About Digging A Hole Together
• Steam: A Game About Digging A Hole (price and reviews, checked 21 Oct)
• Inven Global: A Game About Digging A Hole Together brings multiplayer to viral hit (announcement)
• Inven Global: launches December 4th with Xbox Game Pass