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Manage a crew of miners, gather ores and gems, craft upgrades, and prestige to push through new mines and deeper floors.
Released 07 Dec 2023
Smelt Ores Into Gear
Grow a Miner Team
Prestige for Deeper Mines
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
Developed by Cold Hours · Published by Cold Hours
You manage a team of miners working through caves, collecting ores, gems, and other resources as they dig deeper. You can also tap to help break through the mine.
Refine materials in forges and craft items to improve your miners and their mining abilities. Hire and upgrade miners with different bonuses, and improve your forges to process resources more efficiently.
Unlock mines with different environments and resources, then use prestige rewards and permanent upgrades to strengthen future runs. Missions and achievements offer additional goals as you progress.
Some players enjoy the relaxed, background-friendly mining loop, the pixel-art presentation, and the steady stream of upgrades and unlocks, especially early on. Others find that progress slows sharply later, with long forge timers and repetitive resource gathering; opinions also differ on how much active play or offline progress the game requires.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 18 |
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| Controller required | No |
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