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Tap Tap Dig: idle clicker mining game for Android
By Mei-Lin Chua
Contributing editor, apps and storefronts
- Tap to swing the pick-axe and squish earthworms for diamonds
- Twelve helpers that keep digging for you
- Coins that keep building while you are away from the game
- Fossils that trigger a Big Bang to boost digging power
- Prospector skills and research bonuses for the Gold Miner
- Achievements to show friends, plus ad-based bonus rewards
What Tap Tap Dig is and who it suits
If you like clicker games where the numbers climb while you do other things, Tap Tap Dig is built for that. You control a miner who digs down toward the planet's core, and the game is an incremental idle clicker, so most of the progress comes from upgrades you buy with what you have dug up.
The listing calls it a free mining game. Its pitch is simple: tap to start, then keep spending coins on helpers and upgrades so the digging goes faster and reaches deeper layers. There is no story or level structure described in the listing, only the digging and the upgrades that drive it.
It suits people who enjoy watching a number go up over a long session, and who are happy to come back to a game in short bursts. The listing rates it PEGI 3.
Tapping and digging for coins, diamonds and fossils
The basic action is tapping the screen to swing the pick-axe. Tapping on earthworms squishes them and earns diamonds, and digging itself earns coins and fossils. The listing names diamonds, coins and fossils as the main currencies, and they are used for different things.
Fossils matter for a specific reason. The listing says that collecting them lets you trigger a Big Bang, which boosts your digging power further. This is the game's way of giving you a push when your normal upgrades feel slow.
Diamonds and fossils are both described as things you collect while you dig, so the digging is both the way you earn money and the way you gather the rarer items.
Hiring helpers and benefactors
The listing says you can collect 12 helpers who dig for you, so the miner is not the only source of progress. Each helper adds to the rate at which your digging happens, and upgrading them increases your DPS, the figure that tracks how fast the digging produces results.
Separate from the regular helpers are benefactors. Hiring them unlocks unique bonuses, and the listing names several: a pirate helper called Mack, a construction slime, a miniature black hole, and a dog called Rocky. It also mentions a construction worker called Jack Hammer. The listing says some benefactors are mysterious and unlock through play, and that they help as a hand, fin or claw.
Helpers and benefactors do different jobs. Helpers keep digging on their own, while benefactors add bonuses that change how the digging works.
Upgrading the miner and prospector skills
The Gold Miner is the character you control, and the listing says you can unlock prospector skills to dig even faster. Those skills sit alongside stat bonuses that you research, and the listing says research improves both digging and profit.
The listing also says that rewards which permanently upgrade the prospector appear throughout the game. Because the upgrades are permanent, progress you make on the miner carries forward into later stages of digging.
Together, the miner upgrades and the helper upgrades are the two levers the listing points to for going deeper faster.
Idle earnings, ad bonuses and achievements
The idle part of the game means you keep earning coins when you are not playing. The listing describes this as the core of the idle mining loop, so you can return to find more coins built up.
The listing says the game uses an ad reward system that gives you bonuses. Those bonuses are optional extras, and the listing mentions them as one of the ways to get rewards. Ads are part of how the game is supported, as the listing describes it as free.
There is also an achievement system. The listing presents it as a way to show off to friends, so it sits on top of the digging as a set of goals to chase.
What's new
- plugin updates to improve stability
- bug fixes
v2.2.5
- added safe area support for notches
- plugin updates to improve stability
- bug fixes
Have fun tapping, digging, and mining!
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About this APK
The build we hold is Tap Tap Dig: Idle Clicker Game 2.2.9 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.
- Version
- 2.2.9
- 220209
- Requires Android
- 7.0+
- Size
- 66 MB
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- org.ironhorsegames.taptapdig
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 14 declared
- Signed by
- CN=Mark Smith, O=Bacon Bandit Games
- Certificate SHA-256
- e89a969495a3e28c7c8121e49ad83e56c94780aef757440041226909f5eca033
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