GoGo Digger Review

Posted on August 24, 2008 - Filed Under Arcade, Free Games, Puzzles |

* * * * * 4 votes

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GoGo Digger is a great freeware game for the PC by BadBumbles. The game is a cross between mind sweeper and Dig Dug. The player controls a miner that digs for gems, but there are mines spread through out the level preventing the player from walking in and getting the gems. Go Go Digger

GoGo Digger is an arcade style game. The player starts out with three lives and when you “discover” a bomb you lose a life. Lose three lives and the game is done. The more ground you can clear the more points you get and the higher your score at the end of the game. The amount of gems you manage to collect add to your points total too.

The first level serves as the tutorial level and caught me off guard. The player is presented with a board that contains some gems and some mines, but you can see all of the gems and all of the mines. Of course, I was thinking, wow this game is not going to be hard to play and I was wrong. The first level serves as a tutorial to show you how the mind sweeper part of the game works. Numbers appear in the area of the bomb. The players have to figure out where the bomb is based on all of the numbers that appear around the bomb. As the player is navigating around the bombs they can collect the gems. The more gems collected the more points you get at the end of the game.

As soon as the first level is complete, the gems are hidden and so are the bombs. Players only know there is a bomb around by discovering a number and that number gives you a clue on where the bomb may be. The numbers just give a rough estimate and you don’t know for sure, but you can definitely make a good educated guess on where the bomb is. There always seems to be gems really close to a few of the bombs.

Go Go Digger Players have a little bit of help in the form of a star ball. Click on the star ball and it will blow up blocks and bombs around you, but you do not die from the explosion. It is a great way to get past an area where there are a lot of numbers and it can be risky to get around. Just blow up the area and you are free to roam around. Players only have a limited number of star balls for the entire game so they need to be used smartly.

The graphics in GoGo Digger give the game an arcade feel, but they are clear and crisp and not old and hard to read like arcade games.

GoGo Digger is a fun arcade style game and is very different from other genres of casual games. The game is a nice blend of a mind sweeper and Dig Dug games. Anyone will enjoy GoGo Digger and you have nothing to lose by trying it because the game is free to play. Check it out here.

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