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1993 · Puzzle · Strategy

Diggers

Diggers is a Lemmings-style puzzle game where you command five alien miners (from a choice of four clans) and various gadgets to dig for treasure. The game is divided in excavation areas. Each area has a set amount of money you must raise before moving into the next one. To do so, you must sell your collected treasure to the bank.

Released
1993
Platforms
Acorn ArchimedesAmiga 1200Amiga CD32MS-DOS
Genres
PuzzleStrategy
Developers
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Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Country
United Kingdom

About

Diggers is a puzzle video game developed and published by Millennium Interactive for the Amiga CD32 in 1993 in Europe and 1994 in North America. The player takes control of a mining team excavating a planet for precious minerals.

It was later released for the Amiga 1200 and MS-DOS. Diggers was bundled with the CD32 at launch, along with the platform game Oscar on the same CD. A sequel, Extractors, was released for MS-DOS in 1995.

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Gameplay

The game is set on the planet Zarg, where four races are vying for the gems and ores buried there. The four races are: the Habbish, who dig quickly and have high endurance, yet are impatient and prone to wander off; Grablins, who dig the fastest, have good stamina but are weak fighters; Quarriors, who are slow diggers but strong fighters; and the F'Targs, who are mediocre but regain their health quickly. The player chooses one of the four races, then sends out five man teams to mine a region. There are 34 regions in all, with two accessible at the beginning of the game.

Each region has an amount of money the player must amass in order to beat it and open up the adjacent territories. Time plays a role, as there is always a computer-controlled opposing race in the region, competing with the player to be the first to achieve the monetary goal.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Diggers has all the appeal of Lemmings with a good dose of exploration and greed thrown in to boot."

Amiga Action gave the game a score of 91% of 100 and stating that "A totally addictive and stunningly original masterpiece. Hardly the sort of game to show what the new CD32 is capable of, but a truly marvelous game in its own right. The only big drawback is the lack of a decent instruction manual to help you along at the beginning, but with a little effort, you 'll yourself totally absorbed in a puzzler to rival even the mighty Lemmings series. A game to grow old with.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Amiga CD3231 December 1993Worldwide
MS-DOS1 January 1994Europe

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Diggers & Oscar

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