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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-24 01:24 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: 1GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 800 MB available space