Rock and Stone

one of the better clicker sort of games. reminds me of diablo looting + clicker progression. get random stat piees of your hammer or pickaxe and build up. great for less than 5 minute bursts and some of the items have value inherently from the game actually being ok. you want to get stronger and getting stronger has an impact on the type of items that drop. should have started a long time ago

Rock and Stone is a really simple idle mining game, but I found myself enjoying the progression more than I expected. I play as a dwarf who spends most of the time mining rocks in the background while I collect loot, gold and better equipment. The main idea is extremely straightforward, but I think that works well because I can leave the game running while doing something else and then come back to see what I have earned. The equipment system is probably the best part for me. I can find gear ranging from common all the way up to legendary, with different stats affecting things like mining speed, damage, critical hits, experience, gold and stamina regeneration. I like having all those little improvements because even a small upgrade can make the next part of the progression feel a bit faster. It gives me something to keep checking without making me deal with a complicated RPG system. The loot system is also quite interesting because I have to decide what I want to do with the things I find. I can open items to get new gear and gold, or I can sell items through the player driven Steam market. I like having that choice because it makes unwanted loot feel useful instead of simply bec…

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Inventory flipper slop.

Hilarious item grinder. Low damage high magic find is the only way to get better items. It cost 20000 gold to make the gold rock you get at the start have 100% quality as to make it actually worth its rarity. That is the cost for any rock to be 100% quality instead of just a 0 quality rock. I have yet to get enough gold to know if the quality keeps going up past 100 but I am not gonna crack at that rock till it is way higher quality than the 10% it is at rn.

Rock and Stone takes the familiar satisfaction of incremental progression and wraps it around a dwarf-themed mining experience where patience, equipment management, and steady improvement matter more than quick reflexes. Developed and published by Pinecone Studios, it is designed primarily as an idle game that can continue making progress without demanding constant attention. The premise is immediately understandable: your dwarf mines rocks, gathers resources and equipment, becomes more efficient, and repeats the process while gradually reaching better rewards. It is deliberately straightforward, but there are enough interconnected progression systems to give dedicated idle-game players something to optimize. Mining forms the foundation of everything. The dwarf can work automatically, making the game suitable for running alongside other activities, while players can intervene to increase productivity. Manual clicking consumes stamina, so active play cannot simply replace the idle mechanics indefinitely. Instead, stamina regeneration and other statistics become part of the progression puzzle. Gold earned during mining can also contribute toward useful improvements, while temporary …