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Kin and Quarry

Kin and Quarry

An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.

Released Jan 16, 2026 Developer The Fox Knocks Platforms Windows IncrementalCasualIdlerMining2.5D
View on Steam ↗ $7.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

77.4%positive482 reviews
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“Kin and Quarry is a good incremental mining game. It has no offline progression, which is fine thanks to good progression balance, and it has no progress-resetting ascension like other titles of the genre, which is a good thing. It's also not endless, so you can actually…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 16 found this helpful

“This game is amazing. From the gameplay to the lore, this game is for casual and hardcore gamers alike. The lore is extremely rich and deep and it will keep you invested. I recommend this to anyone.”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Not recommended · 37 found this helpful

“This isn't a bad game per se, but it's not a $10 game. It feels more like a minigame or something. I 100%ed it in just under four hours, and there are no rebirth mechanics or the like. Just feels like a very undercooked idler. That said, I would have given it a tentative thumbs…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

596all-time peak
0 100 200 163 avg · Jan 2026

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

22achievements
50.0%median completion
34.0%rarest: Artifact Hunter IV
89.3% of players 82.0% of players 78.7% of players 75.6% of players 69.8% of players 67.8% of players 65.7% of players 64.8% of players 64.6% of players 58.0% of players 52.3% of players 50.0% of players 49.2% of players 48.7% of players 47.7% of players 47.4% of players 46.8% of players 45.4% of players 41.7% of players 37.5% of players 34.5% of players 34.0% of players 89.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
89.3%Excavator I — Clear all blocks in Layer 1.
82.0%Excavator II — Clear all blocks in Layer 2.
78.7%Artifact Hunter I — Acquire 50 Artifacts.
Rarest badges of honor
34.0%Artifact Hunter IV — Acquire all Artifacts.
34.5%Extraordinary Collector — Acquire all Extraordinary Artifacts.
37.5%Rare Collector — Acquire all Rare Artifacts.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$7.99−20% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$9.99base price
$7.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US7.99 USD−20%
EU7.99 EUR−20%
UK7.99 GBP−20%
Australia10.80 AUD−20%
Canada9.00 CAD−20%
Japan960 JPY−20%
Brazil15.99 BRL−20%
China33.60 CNY−20%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$3.1 China Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$11

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

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

Aug 03, 2026
New Incremental Game and Better Regional Pricing!

Hello! Hope you're all doing well. Today, I'd like to announce that my latest incremental game has been released. Kin and Conquest: I also want to announce that I've updated the pricing model for Kin

May 01, 2026
Announcing "Kin and Conquest" with a playable Playtest!

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. I'm here to announce Kin and Conquest , a combat-oriented spinoff of Kin and Quarry. It has a Playtest you can check out right now if you want to give it a shot. Th

Jan 19, 2026
1.0.2b (Artifact hotfix)

Fixed: Artifacts would roll for the highest tier first before checking for lower tiers. This ended up being coded in such a way that if you were very deep into the game and still lacked lesser tier ar

Jan 19, 2026
1.0.2a

Fixed: Artifacts would incorrectly try to be created in layers that have no blocks, such as in the case of adjusting your Starting Layer, which would make finding the artifacts needlessly difficult. F

Jan 18, 2026
1.0.2

Change: Increased the artifact forgiveness system from a multipler of 0.4 to 1.8. Basically, as you mine blocks, the odds of getting an artifact from that block increases. Now it increases even more.

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Indie
Player tagsIncremental · Casual · Idler · Mining · 2.5D · Pixel Graphics · Indie · Fantasy · Singleplayer · Automation · Roguelite · Roguelike (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Achievements22
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 6GB VRAM Graphics Cards