Idle Digging: Dino Adventure
Boris Nekrushev Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Idle Digging: Dino Adventure is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Boris Nekrushev. Rated 4.2/5 from 5 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.2
- 5 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 259 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 17
- 2026 · v0.72
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About Idle Digging: Dino Adventure
How deep would you dig to solve a family mystery? Join Alex on an archaeological adventure that begins with the last photograph taken before his father disappeared. Open a forgotten excavation site, put a hardworking crew on the ground, and uncover the clues hidden beneath layer after layer of earth. Idle Digging: Dino Adventure blends the satisfying growth of an idle mining game with treasure hunting, resource management, and a light story. Your diggers work automatically, but the success of the expedition depends on your choices. Tap to open new sites, upgrade the team, call the truck, collect trophies, and decide where every hard-earned resource should go next. BUILD A DIG SITE THAT NEVER FEELS STILL Start with a modest patch of ground, one digger, and one carrier. Once a site is open, the crew gets to work. Diggers move across the active layer, break new ground, earn local cash, and leave loads of material behind. Carriers pick up those loads and haul them to storage while you watch the whole operation grow from a few shovels into a busy excavation filled with workers, trucks, tools, and powerful machinery. Invest local earnings in the upgrades that matter most. Add more diggers, improve their speed and stamina, shorten their rest, hire extra carriers, or expand storage. Raise a site far enough and additional shovel positions become available, letting more workers dig at the same time. Every upgrade is visible in a smoother, faster flow. MASTER THE LOGISTICS Digging quickly is only half the challenge. Material must move from the layer to the work site, from the site to the warehouse, and from the warehouse to the expedition's shared stockpile. If storage fills up, carriers have nowhere to unload and the entire chain can slow to a stop. Call the truck before the bottleneck spreads. Increase warehouse space, improve carrier speed, and expand the truck's capacity so transportation keeps pace with excavation. Finding the weak link and fixing it at the right moment turns a simple digging game into a rewarding management simulator. FOLLOW A TRAIL OF ANCIENT TREASURE Each location contains layers to clear and a special trophy to discover. A golden compass, a key hidden in a skull, a mysterious statue, an old diary, a strange bone, broken pottery, and other relics lead Alex from one destination to the next. Fossils, dinosaur-sized secrets, ruins, caves, pyramids, and forgotten treasures keep every new dig full of possibility. TURN RAW MATERIAL INTO A FORTUNE The truck converts local stock into a global resource for the whole expedition. Send it to the factory and unlock a production chain that extracts silver, refines silver into gold, and turns gold into rare gems. Queue production, return for the reward, then buy permanent office upgrades for workers, storage, transport, and doubled income. MAKE PROGRESS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY Your established crew can produce part of its normal progress during a limited period away from the game, as long as there is ground to clear and room in storage. Return to passive earnings, collect what the team found, clear the warehouse, and choose the next upgrade. The system rewards checking in without demanding constant attention. FEATURES - Automatic diggers and carriers in lively three-dimensional locations - Bones, fossils, dinosaur mysteries, relics, and hidden treasure - Ten excavation destinations with a connected adventure story - Local site economies plus permanent expedition-wide progress - Storage limits and visible logistics that reward smart decisions - Factory production of silver, gold, and valuable gems - Limited progress while away and a useful return reward - Relaxed single-player play with the depth of an idle tycoon Open the first site and send in the diggers. The next fossil, fortune, or secret from Alex's father may be only one layer deeper.
Ratings & reviews
4.2
5 ratings
What’s new
Version 0.72 · Updated August 17, 2026
* bug fixes
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App privacy
The developer, Boris Nekrushev, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location: Coarse Location
- User Content: Customer Support
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
- Other Data: Other Data Types
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Performance Data, Crash Data
- Other Data: Other Data Types
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- User Content: Customer Support
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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