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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
45 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“A very addictive incremental game with insane amount of progress, unlocks, rewards and pleasing, adorable graphics. Absolutely recommended.”
“good clicker, don't really like that after you progress enough clicking is useless.”
9 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“A very addictive incremental game with insane amount of progress, unlocks, rewards and pleasing, adorable graphics. Absolutely recommended.”
“This game is amazing! Although slow at first it gets really fun when you purchase upgrades and characters. I am pleasantly surprised with this game and I am surprised that there is only one developer for this project.…”
“This is a pretty well done idle game. It is not just money and buy upgrades, what you mine is stuff you need and then there is a automated smelting system to focus on what you need. And what defines what you need is…”
7 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“Berserk easter egg hidden inside! So definitely something worth to play! All jokes aside the game is very nice and fun to play besides it being an idle game. It has a pretty decent amount of content and various things…”
“I'm surprised that I keep logging on to this game. I would consider it the digital equivalent to a fidget toy. there's a satisfying element to it.”
“Fun little idle game. I like the aspect of the multiple mines and crafting, and the individual miners and abilities are fun and quirky. Plus the achievements aren't super hard to get. overall a decent little 8bit game.…”
6 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“This game is amazing! Although slow at first it gets really fun when you purchase upgrades and characters. I am pleasantly surprised with this game and I am surprised that there is only one developer for this project.…”
“Very well done for a free game! Lots of content and paying for premium currency is totally optional as you earn it passively”
“great free game thanks dev”
5 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“Very well done for a free game! Lots of content and paying for premium currency is totally optional as you earn it passively”
19 of the 89 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“one-dimensional, slow, boring, just has a generic prestige- & tedious crafting mechanics.”
“Very slow, even by idler game standards. Boring, pay to play/ win mechanics. Confusing overcomplicated UI. Makes players give them their personal information(email) just to save in the cloud. This is the worst idler…”
“Kind of a let down after you hit 1000 levels in caves. Just seems like an unpleasant grind after that.”
10 of the 89 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“one-dimensional, slow, boring, just has a generic prestige- & tedious crafting mechanics.”
“Very slow, even by idler game standards. Boring, pay to play/ win mechanics. Confusing overcomplicated UI. Makes players give them their personal information(email) just to save in the cloud. This is the worst idler…”
“Kind of a let down after you hit 1000 levels in caves. Just seems like an unpleasant grind after that.”
8 of the 89 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“there is a big slowdown in the later game, even that you can let it run idle in the background and just wait it out there is a progress to get anything in days or weeks. Well it is idle game but the design is lacking,…”
“The game lacks depth and coherence. THe only mechanic that matters are the furnace upgrades, these determine your progression. After level 1000 there is really nothing new to unlock or do.”
4 of the 89 reviews raise this.
“Very slow, even by idler game standards. Boring, pay to play/ win mechanics. Confusing overcomplicated UI. Makes players give them their personal information(email) just to save in the cloud. This is the worst idler…”
“It's a very horrible pay not to wait trashy game riddled with microtransaction junk. The dev said that you can get everything in the game but you gotta keep playing for how long? 666 years? Yeah he's a liar spewing half…”
Counted across 89 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 80.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“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“i like that even your builders stay on you even after you prestige”
— a player, Steam review · 221 hrs played“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 playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
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
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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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Idler · Clicker · Mining · Management · Crafting · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Resource Management · Simulation · Cute · Casual · Deckbuilding (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Stats · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Japanese * , Korean * , Simplified Chinese * * |
| Achievements | 18 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: 1GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 800 MB available space