# Mini Mining — user reviews > 21 indexed App Store user reviews of Mini Mining by Leonard Pouliot, rated 2.30/5 from 10 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-mining/id1567828621/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-mining/id1567828621.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (2 of 21) ### 2/5 — Unfun game *2022-06-07, version 1.0* Very limiting game design, frustrating and not intuitive. not like Motherload. Don’t download :) ### 2/5 — Too many adds *2022-01-14, version 1.0* Dying is very annoying. Every time you die you either pay 300 in game coins or watch an ad. The idea is for the player to watch as many ads as possible. If you are looking for game like Motherload this is close but not as fun due to the mechanics ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Game ruining big *2025-04-21, version 1.0* Chain won’t fully reach bottom :/ ### 1/5 — Can’t upgrade *2025-04-15, version 1.0* Nothing happens…you just dig and sell your 5 items….i have $400 and it won’t let me upgrade my cargo for $150 ### 1/5 — Clunky AND lots of ads *2025-02-27, version 1.0* You know what’s worse than a really clunky game with unsatisfying controls and very unforgiving fall damage? One that forces you to watch an ad every few minutes. Yeah- no thanks. ### 1/5 — Endless loop *2023-03-04, version 1.0* Game explains nothing and is designed to keep you constantly failing and watching ads to revive or else you have to pay more money than you have. Or you could always completely restart the game. It’s a waste of time. ### 1/5 — >:( *2022-07-06, version 1.0* You can’t go up fix it ### 1/5 — Terrible controls *2022-06-16, version 1.0* Basically infuriating controls. ### 1/5 — Can’t get past the tutorial *2022-04-17* The input doesn’t work ### 1/5 — Game won’t function *2021-10-15, version 1.0* Once tutorial begins, it asks to slide and hold on one side of the screen to dig—nothing happens when you do that, and so the game doesn’t progress ### 2/5 — Seems fun but ads are annoying *2022-08-17, version 1.0* The game was fun but as soon as I first died and had to watch ads or completely reset my game it was so annoying I also think you should change the chain system it was annoying to accidentally fall off the side one block too soon and die. ### 2/5 — It’s okay *2022-06-25, version 1.0* This game is basically a knock off version of Mega Miner. The game is not as immersive as Mega Miner used to be, and the gameplay can get frustrating at some points. Don’t really recommend it. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun quick game *2025-07-11, version 1.0* Fun little game to waste 2-3 hours on. NO POP UP ADS!! Only thing that’s a little frustrating is how easy it is to die with the chain systems ### 5/5 — Great game !! *2024-03-01, version 1.0* Super original and relaxing fun to play game. Recommend if you want to play when you have no wifi too ! ### 5/5 — Moon miner *2022-09-02, version 1.0* When is the moon miner coming out? ### 5/5 — Fun, quick *2022-03-23, version 1.0* I beat the game in 4 hours. Ive been looking for a game that’s quick to beat like that and I love it. The only slight problem is my world only had 7 diamonds (unless I accidentally sold one) and I needed 8 for mission 20. But I discovered the whole map and had a blast. Appreciate the work ### 5/5 — Impressive! *2021-06-03, version 1.0* This game is so fun and addictive! ### 5/5 — Concept intéressant *2021-06-03, version 1.0* J’adore le concept du jeu et j’attends une nouvelle mise à jour!!! ### 5/5 — Review *2021-05-31, version 1.0* Very good art and interesting mechanics, I love it. ### 3/5 — Too many ads *2022-07-16, version 1.0* Uninstalled when I saw you had to watch two ads when you die if you don't want to lose your game and your cargo ... Usually you try to make the early parts of a game less grindy so that the player can actually get into it. ### 3/5 — Ad revenue masterpiece, souls like movement. *2021-11-22, version 1.0* Game itself is ok, nothing special, but good god the devs must be making a fortune from ad revenue, as the movement with souls like difficulty and goddamn chains from hell make it basically inevitable that your forced to watch 2 ads, one to save yourself and one to keep your cargo, and thats assuming the ad doesn't crash your game and make you watch the ad over again. Sharp increase in costs, misspelling in multiple places (specifically...”bloc”...), and clearly fake reviews to pump this apps appeal to people who don’t look that far before downloading. Feel like this game had potential but had greedy devs that don't actually care about the game itself. Edit: after dev response, few things to clarify. 1, sorry for calling devs uncaring, ive just seen too many games with a good premise that were only made for ads, and the current game shared a lot of similarities, so sorry, my fault there. 2, crashing could just be my tablet. 3, a little elaboration on souls like movement, you can barely control your speed. When your mine is made of gigantic gaping holes and you only have a single chain as a safety net, your gona shoot right through the chain. better joystick system is recommended, or maybe a throttle control that determines how fast your drill goes. My other problem is with:4, the chains. Although the concept of the chains is cool, the implementation of them only working on your level is bad. They should act like anchors, falling to the bottom of the pit and then acting as a ladder so no matter where u fall, you have a way back. Another issue i noticed with the chains is the auto death when your too far under them. If someone has 2 chains and a couple of blocks to climb up, one can make a staircase out of the chains to get back to the original chain by abusing speed to launch yourself up onto another block, place a new chain then remove the old one, rinse and repeat. So instead of instantly killing the player, you should give them a prompt on weather or not they want to die or find a way out on their own. Other than that, good game at this stage. Summary: Better speed control mechanics, and improved control scheme. Anchor like chains that go to the bottom of your mine then act as a ladder Prompt to die, not instant death when outside of a chains range. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-01.*