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Currently Playing: DYG

What Is It? You dig and then you dig and then you dig and then you die and you look at your wallet and go "oh no, my three dollars!"

Gameplay Overview: It is a digging simulator. There is an indicator along the bottom that you follow to dig. The important bit is the downward swing to actually "dig" and that part is timed. If you move along with the indicator, you dig! If you miss, you clank and no digging occurs. The movement appears random, sometimes super fast and sometimes very slow. You want to dig as deep as you can before time runs out (indicated by a setting sun behind you).

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Thoughts:
-DYG is the second non Season 1 game I've played now. I was just looking around the catalogue and this one stuck out to me for some reason. It is a game I downloaded solely for the name. One of these days Ill look into games beyond the titles but today is not that day.
-Uh. Did it start?
-Im just a guy with a shovel and there is no intro or anything. So Im not quite sure what to do.
-What the fuck? The game ended while I was typing this.
-Oh. DYG is DIG YOUR GRAVE. You apparently have like ten seconds to dig as deep as you can I guess? Im not positive. I was typing and not touching anything and then the sun set and I died and those words popped up on the screen. It goes right back to another attempt though. I have no idea what my goals are or how to play. Woo hoo?
-It took a little bit of messing around with, but I think I figured it out. This is like the fourth Playdate game Ive played that doesnt tell you how to play it. I have no idea why they think that is fun. "Hey our game is short as hell - maybe if we don't tell them what the hell to do it will extend play time by a whole five minutes?" is probably the prevailing thought.
-So, theres this indicator at the bottom of the screen. You move the crank around as indicated and its supposed to mimic moving your shovel and tossing dirt out. If you dont hit the timing right, it makes this clank noise and you dont go any further. Get the timing right and you dig.
-Thats, uh, it. Thats all the things in this game I think.
-So far my top score is six inches. The all time top score is 2425 by Quinndini. Why Quinndini? Who hurt you?
-Ok, so if you get several digs right in a row, you get a multiplier and you start digging more at once. -So it starts with 1 then 2 inches then 3 inches, increasingly linearly like that every couple of successful digs. Hulk over here digging like ten feet at a time eventually.
-I have no clue if missing makes the time go faster or if there is a global timer that you just have to deal with. The game doesnt tell you because it hates you.
-Top score so far is 70 inches. Tenth place is 387 inches. I have no clue if I have the patience or desire to actually try for that though.
-Ill give this another shot in a bit but I dont know how much longer I want to keep playing it. Im not interested, really. Shouldve just set my three dollars on fire.
-OH. One other thing. Playdate games need to figure out how to do a leaderboard system because so far on Snak has any clue what its doing. Snak showed you what place you were in. Like, you couldnt view the full leaderboard but it would be like hey that score is 26th place so you actually felt like you were climbing the leaderboard. I have no clue how my score of 70 is. What place is that? Why do you only show the top two scores at the end, and not even show what my score was so I have to look and play attention when I know its almost over to actually figure out how deep I am? There is zero content to this game, why couldnt you have at least included a personal high score?
-Spoilers: this one isnt going to rank very high.

Time Played: 15 minutes. I already feel like I've exhausted everything there is to do with this game.
High Score: A whole 70 inches. So close to a true six feet under.
Beaten? Um. Sure. I saw the ending, which is them showing you the top two high scores you will never achieve.
Grade: 2 or a 3. Have I mentioned I'm not a huge fan of score chasers? That's even more true when they're 1) not fun and 2) as basic as this one.
Favorite Part So Far: Seeing DYG spell out "dig your grave". I imagine the developer thought out this game for that specific bit alone and then stopped thinking entirely after that.