Idle Cave Miner

Idle Cave Miner

Cold Hours · December 8, 2023 · Idler, Incremental, Mining, Management, Crafting

Idle Cave Miner is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Idle Cave Miner price

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About Idle Cave Miner

✦ AI summary

Build a team of miners to dig deeper into procedurally shifting mines, crafting and upgrading tools and equipment to unlock rare ores and gems. Prestige through endless progression loops with permanent upgrades, daily missions, and leaderboards as your idle miners generate ever-increasing profits.


IDLE CAVE MINER FEATURES:

Smelt, Craft, and Refine Ores:

  • Craft cool new Items to mine deeper than ever and find new rare ores and gems!
  • Upgrade your forges to increase their speed and efficiency when smelting rare ores or refining beautiful gems!
  • Use the items you crafted to permanently boost the stats of your team of miners!

Build your own team of Miners:

  • Unlock cool and unique new miners to mine for you and help you progress deep within the mines!
  • Upgrade your miners with items you crafted to take them to the next level of mining efficiency!
  • Idle away as your miners work for you, giving you profits you've never seen before!

Multiple Mines:

  • The mine upgrades with you, the further down you go, the more the mine shifts to accommodate new unique and fun environments!
  • Unique mines to explore, each with their own resources for you to obtain, whether those are rare ores to be smelted or unique gems to be refined!
  • Farm these mines to get resources to become stronger than ever and progress in the main mine, giving you access to new and interesting new ores and gems!

Endless upgrades:

  • Upgrade everything about your favorite miners, building an increasingly strong team to progress further than you've gone before!
  • Prestige to receive powerful rewards that allow you to go deeper than ever into the unknown depths of the mines!
  • Gather permanent upgrades that remain with you when you prestige, allowing you to breeze through what was previously impossible!

Lots of missions and achievements:

  • Complete fun achievements to unlock cool rewards!
  • Participate in daily, weekly and monthly missions that give you increased rewards based on their difficulty level!
  • Check your game's stats at any moment to view your overall progress and other fun statistics!

Other cool features:

  • Cloud Saves!
  • Online Leaderboards!
  • Play Offline!

Idle Cave Miner — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Idle Cave Miner is a relaxing, easy-to-learn idle game that players appreciate for its low-pressure gameplay and fun progression to check back on periodically. The main criticisms center on a slow progression pace with walls that can feel grindy, and frustration over some achievements being locked behind microtransactions. Players seem satisfied with it as a casual background game, though it may not appeal to those seeking faster-paced or fully unlockable content.

Recommended Sep 9, 2026
Fun relaxing game, very easy to learn how to master.
Recommended Sep 8, 2026
This is fun to keep going in the background and check back on progress later.
Not recommended Sep 7, 2026
meh
Recommended Sep 4, 2026
A fine yet slow older game with a progression wall, best paired with making classic salsa verde between sessions!
Recommended Sep 4, 2026
Really enjoyed the game, very relaxing
Not recommended Sep 3, 2026
You have to pay to unlock some achievements, some are behind micro transaction content,

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