Play The Dig - Demo Online

Game Overview

Oh man, The Dig - Demo takes me right back to those foggy MS-DOS afternoons. You start off as this no-nonsense astronaut named Boston Low—imagine if Harrison Ford played a space engineer—and suddenly you're poking around some weird alien artifact that zaps your whole crew to a dead planet. The place feels equal parts beautiful and creepy, like someone left the lights on in an abandoned cathedral a million years ago.

What I love is how the puzzles actually make sense in this world. You're not just combining random inventory items—you're figuring out alien machinery, decoding strange symbols, and trying not to freak out when the environment subtly shifts around you. The voice acting's surprisingly good for the era, especially Low's dry one-liners when he screws something up (which you will).

It's a shame the demo cuts off right when things get really interesting, but that's LucasArts for you—they knew how to leave you desperate for more. If you've got 15 minutes and a soft spot for '90s sci-fi mystery, this one's like finding a time capsule in your old floppy disk collection.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".