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Idle Cave Miner

Cold Hours · 2023-12-07

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 07, 2023 (Linux), Dec 07, 2023 (Mac), Dec 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 16, 2022 (Android), Nov 16, 2022 (iOS)

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.

665
playing now
81%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

665 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

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!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 18% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2023-12-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

7825322026-08-11 19:00 — 618 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 695 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 613 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 651 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 616 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 605 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 622 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 676 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 532 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 643 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 629 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 578 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 698 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 635 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 591 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 696 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 664 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 618 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 723 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 641 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 589 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 760 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 643 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 618 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 766 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 607 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 671 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 782 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 665 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002023-12-082024-04-232023-12-08 — best price $4.492023-12-14 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $4.492024-02-26 — best price $4.992024-03-14 — best price $4.492024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-23 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 19:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
96.6%
earned "Hats Off"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,2037%18

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCuteIdlerCasualMiningClickerColorfulCraftingStylizedManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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