Keep Mining: Idle Ore Clicker

Black Box Digital

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Keep Mining is an incremental idle mining clicker built around one satisfying loop: tap rocks, break them apart and collect the ore inside. Every run earns ingots for upgrades, so your miner gets faster and the next rock cracks even sooner.

Tap to mine
Each run is a short timed dig. Tap and hold on the field and your pickaxe strikes every rock within reach. Broken stones drop gold, copper and iron ore plus XP, and every new level opens up more of the game. Runs take only seconds, which makes this an easy clicker game to pick up whenever you have a moment.

Rich rocks and lucky hits
Not every rock is the same. Some stones are packed with ore, and with the right upgrades a rock can shatter in a single hit or pay out double XP and double ore. Knowing which rocks to go for is what turns a good miner into a great one.

From ore to ingots
When the timer runs out, your ore is smelted into ingots. These ingots pay for everything that makes you stronger, and each metal has its own value.

A skill tree that keeps growing
Spend ingots on dozens of nodes in a branching skill tree: faster swings, a wider mining area, more rocks on the field, extra time per run and more ore from every stone. This is incremental progress in its purest form. Small numbers grow into huge ones, and every upgrade shows on the very next run.

Forge a better pickaxe
The smithy holds a whole line of pickaxes, from your starter pick to far stronger tools. Each new pickaxe hits harder, swings faster or reaches further, and choosing when to upgrade is part of the fun.

Hunt for artifacts
Now and then an artifact rock appears among the stones. Break it to add a rare, epic or legendary artifact to your collection. Artifacts give passive bonuses that stay with you for good and stack with your skill tree.

Progress that sticks
Your pickaxes, skill tree upgrades and artifacts are all permanent. Runs are short, but your miner keeps growing between them, and that steady climb is what makes a good idle clicker so hard to put down.

Build your own mine
Later on you can open a mine with a separate shaft for each ore. It produces ingots for you automatically while you focus on your runs.

What you'll love
• Quick tap-and-hold runs with a clear goal
• Idle clicker progression where every upgrade counts
• Three ores to mine and smelt: gold, copper and iron
• A deep skill tree, a smithy full of pickaxes and artifacts to collect
• Satisfying rock breaking with punchy sound and vibration

If you enjoy idle and incremental mining games packed with upgrades, grab your pickaxe and keep mining.

Ratings and reviews

Had fun so far once you get past the ads. I managed to get to level 300 in just one day by pushing past the ads and being strategic with my skill upgrades. Now I only have the 2 most expensive upgrades left but they use gold, making iron and copper useless. Also they require so much that it'll take an hour per upgrade at this point. Still trying to unlock talents, would figured its too late now for them to be useful.

I've played for maybe 2 hours and im already at the end. Last 2 upgrades are ludicrously expensive. the pickaxe range when maxed cant reach the bottom of the screen due to the mining area offset. Talents (spelled Talants in game) aren't unlockable yet. Ads are way too frequent. Maybe I'll be back when there's an update but for now I'm done with this.

A fun little mining game to pass the time. Some criticisms for the developer to take note of, however; So far, levels/xp mean nothing from what I can tell, and the two tabs locked at the start don't seem to unlock. The 'rate now' screen is in Russian. The later gold upgrades (costing 220k and 300k) are far too expensive. The audio should be separately controlled between music and sfx; Music is fun, but the ringing of the pickaxe isn't. I'll come back to the game later, once the features are out.