Start with a shovel, a bucket and a gold pan. End with excavators, wash plants and a furnace pouring your own gold bars.

Gold Vein is a first-person gold mining simulator where every step is done by hand: you dig the dirt, carry it, wash it and pick the gold out yourself. Nothing is automatic until you earn the machines that make it so.

FROM PAN TO PLANT
• Dig pay dirt with your shovel and fill buckets you place on the ground
• Pan it in the creek: shake to settle the gold, wash off the light sand, keep the flakes
• Set up sluice boxes, rockers and highbankers and wash the mats for concentrate
• Clean the concentrate on the magnetite separator and the wave table
• Melt your gold into bars in the furnace and sell when the price is right

REAL MACHINES, REAL CONTROLS
• Excavator with separate boom, stick, bucket and swing, in ISO or SAE lever layout
• Bulldozer with blade and ripper, wheel loader, dump truck and pickup
• Drill rig that samples the ground and draws a gold richness map
• Pumps, generators, hoses and power cables you connect yourself
• Trommels, shakers, jigs, conveyors and a mobile wash plant you can chain into one line

A MINE THAT NEEDS RUNNING
• The ground really changes: every hole, pile and cut stays where you made it
• Engines burn diesel: carry a jerrycan or set up a fuel tank
• Machines wear out: keep spare filters, belts and parts on hand
• Hire workers to keep machines fed, fuelled and repaired
• Seasons change, the ground freezes in winter and the gold price moves

BUILT FOR TOUCH
• Move every control and info panel where you want it and resize it
• Floating sticks that start wherever your thumb lands
• Separate control layouts for each vehicle
• 15 hands-on lessons that teach every tool and machine
• English, Turkish, German and Spanish

Three maps, each with its own terrain, water and gold. Play offline, at your own pace.

Gold Vein is free to play and supported by ads. A daily bonus gives you cash or diesel every day you play. Optional one-time purchases: "Remove ads" and an "Everything $1" mode that makes every tool, machine and vehicle cost $1 in a new game.