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Mining Cats cover art

Mining Cats

Minicactus Games · 2021-12-16

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 16, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Mining Cats is a logic puzzle that involves blasting rocks and creating paths that connect mines of gemstones of the same color.

Mining Cats is a Casual game released in 2021, priced at $1.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 58 reviews).

0
playing now
76%
positive of 58 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 58 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2023-02-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820212026Week of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.992021-12-162026-07-272021-12-16 — best price $1.192022-02-03 — best price $1.992022-03-25 — best price $1.992022-04-11 — best price $1.192022-06-23 — best price $1.192022-07-25 — best price $1.992022-09-26 — best price $1.192022-11-07 — best price $1.992022-12-05 — best price $1.192023-01-05 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $0.992023-05-01 — best price $1.992023-06-30 — best price $0.992023-08-14 — best price $1.992023-11-06 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-01-29 — best price $0.992024-03-18 — best price $1.992024-06-03 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-09-23 — best price $0.992024-11-18 — best price $1.992024-12-20 — best price $0.992025-03-03 — best price $1.992025-04-07 — best price $0.992025-06-09 — best price $1.992025-07-21 — best price $0.992025-09-08 — best price $1.992025-10-13 — best price $0.992025-12-01 — best price $1.992026-02-09 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
96.9%
earned "Hands on!"
33.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

CatsCuteLogicCasualMiningPuzzleTrainsClickerRelaxingEducation

Census log

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