The Dig has much in common with the more well-known LucasArts adventures, using the SCUMM storytelling system and an even more trimmed-down user interface than Sam & Max Hit the Road and Full Throttle. Some well-known LucasArts personnel are also involved, with Michael Land providing a musical score based on Wagner.

The Dig - an experiment in megalomania. An epic science fiction adventure based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, made by the guys who made Star Wars (well, not quite). Special effects by Industrial Light and Magic. The hardest puzzles in a Lucas Arts game since Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Isn't marketing great? Here's an experiment: Let's judge the game exactly according to all the marketing slogans they came up with then.