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Idle Cave Miner

Idle Cave Miner

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.

Released Dec 7, 2023 Developer Cold Hours Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux IdlerClickerMiningManagementCrafting
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

80.9%positive737 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“One must imagine Sisyphus playing an incremental game. There is no inherent value to roll a boulder up hill nor opening a game, giving miners a mindless labour to work through or click lunatically by yourself through deep rock. Or anything at all honestly. Anyway, imagine…”

— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“i like that even your builders stay on you even after you prestige”

— a player, Steam review · 221 hrs played
Not recommended · 12 found this helpful

“I finally finished today and got 100% achievements, however I really do not recommend this game, especially if you want to play long term and complete it. Progression is EXTREMELY slow and unsatisfying. The further you progress in the game, the less progress you make every time…”

— a player, Steam review · 1,091 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:24 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

591playing at last check
71624-hour peak
2,282all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2024 2025 2026 1.3k avg · Jul 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

18achievements
12.7%median completion
3.0%rarest: All or Nothing
96.5% of players 74.6% of players 73.5% of players 56.1% of players 47.5% of players 43.2% of players 39.7% of players 25.6% of players 16.3% of players 12.7% of players 7.3% of players 7.2% of players 6.9% of players 5.8% of players 5.8% of players 4.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.0% of players 96.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
96.5%Hats Off — Unlock 1 Miner.
74.6%Coal Pits — Visit the 'Coal Pits' for the first time.
73.5%Full Team — Unlock 5 Miners.
Rarest badges of honor
3.0%All or Nothing — Reach Max Tier on 20 Miners.
3.6%Star Collector — Reach Max Tier on 10 Miners.
4.7%This Many — Reach Max Tier on 5 Miners.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 05, 2025
Idle Cave Miner 2 - Coming Soon!

Are you ready for this new chapter? I've been working on Idle Cave Miner for over 4 years now, it started as a hobby project that I worked on when I had some free time. I never expected much of it, bu

Aug 26, 2024
Version 1.11.2

Changes: Lowered relic costs for 'Bird Coins', 'Offline Rewards', and 'Starting Floor' Gem sorting will now check if it's sorted before changing sort type When visiting a floor, you now get offline re

Jun 23, 2024
Version 1.11.1

Changes: Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic Relics now count towards game completion Fixes: Fixed Japanese currency display

Jun 22, 2024
Version 1.11.0

New Features: Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems Added 7 abyssal gems Added abyssal gem grading Added 3 abyssal upgrades Added a new relic Changes: Forge timer is now monospaced (wo

Apr 28, 2024
Version 1.10.1

Changes: Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence ( 10% >> 12%) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence ( 12% >> 14%) Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence ( 12% >> 1

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play
Player tagsIdler · Clicker · Mining · Management · Crafting · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Resource Management · Simulation · Cute · Casual · Deckbuilding (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Stats · Steam Leaderboards
LanguagesEnglish * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Japanese * , Korean * , Simplified Chinese * *
Achievements18
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: 1GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 800 MB available space