A Game About Digging A Hole Together: PC Requirements, Cross-Play and 2026 Release Window

For Windows players, there is already something more useful than a trailer to examine: published PC requirements. The shovel may be virtual, but the graphics card requirements are not.

Four players, multiple platforms​

Shochiku’s September 29 announcement names Steam, Epic Games Store and Xbox on PC as planned PC distribution routes. It lists support for one to four players, including online cooperative digging across hardware platforms.

The familiar progression remains: excavate, sell discovered resources, improve equipment and dig farther. Shochiku says new terrain, tools and secrets reflect feedback from the original game’s community. It also describes a ground-up reconstruction of the game’s systems, with digging technology derived from Solarpunk. Those are development claims, not independently measured performance improvements.

The publisher says the original began as a single developer’s vacation project and surpassed one million sales worldwide. This follow-up pairs that developer with Mipumi Games.

The practical distinction: cross-platform cooperation is announced, but the release notice does not provide a platform-by-platform compatibility matrix or account requirements. Friends planning to mix PC storefronts and consoles should wait for those implementation details before choosing where to buy.

Windows PC requirements are already listed​

The game’s Steam listing publishes these specifications; both configurations require a 64-bit processor and operating system.

These are Steam’s published requirements, not benchmark results. The listing supplies no resolution, graphics preset or frame-rate target, so meeting them should not be interpreted as a promise of particular performance.

For PC owners, the useful takeaway is to compare both processor and graphics hardware, rather than assuming a minimalist digging game will run comfortably on any machine.

What remains unconfirmed​

Steam lists single-player, online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer, but still marks the game as unavailable with its release date “To be announced.” Shochiku’s announcement leaves the price undecided. The broad 2026 window therefore remains a plan rather than a dated release commitment.

There is also a small descriptive discrepancy: Steam places the excavation beneath a beach, while Shochiku describes secrets beneath a garden. Neither establishes that these are separate playable locations.

For Windows and Xbox readers, the concrete news is cooperative digging across planned PC and console releases, backed by an early hardware checklist. Whether that becomes seamless cross-platform play—and how smoothly the rebuilt systems perform—remains something to assess at launch, not something an announcement can prove.