Ground Driller vs Cave Driller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ground Driller
An idle digging game where you excavate gems and minerals with automated miners and upgradable equipment. Discover rare treasures deep underground and earn coins even when offline. Explore new content like research, fishing, and mini-games.
- Automated digging and mining
- Collect diverse gems and minerals
- Upgrade excavators and miners
- Offline coin earnings
- Mining research, fishing, mini-games
- Achievements and leaderboards
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Mine diverse gems and minerals with a powerful excavator and cute miners. Rarest gems are found only in the deepest part of the earth so dig as deep as possible. - No control required. Digging and mining are done automatically! - Uranium, nickel, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals can be collected. - You must upgrade your excavator to get deep into the earth. - Capable miners can mine more minerals than others. - There are various surprise events! - You can earn Coins even while you're offline. - New content has been added, including mining research, fishing, and mini-games. - Achievement & Leaderboard supported. - This is an offline game that does not require Data or WiFi connection. - Supports English.
Cave Driller
An idle simulation game where units automatically mine resources and expand your mine. Hire managers with special abilities and explore other planets to discover unique minerals. Strengthen your units and equipment to achieve a billionaire dream.
- Automatic mine excavation and mineral mining
- Explore and develop planets
- Mine 23 types of minerals
- Hire and strengthen managers
- Various digging and mining equipment
- Surprise missions and bonuses
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Cave Driller is a new type of an idle simulation game. Unlike other clicker idle games, Cave Driller does not required touch frequently, thus units will be mining automatically without clicking and touching, and drills will dig the ground to expand mine. Hire and strengthen the important managers with special abilities, such as emptying warehouses, repairing broken mines, and increasing the efficiency of units to mine the minerals faster. Not only mining on the earth, but also expand and build mine to get unique minerals in other planets by space exploring. Special and valuable 23 types of minerals can be acquired as deeper the mine. Achieve the best manager of the mine to fulfill billionaire dream by strengthening units, and equipment to earn more. [Game Feature] - Automatic mine excavation and mineral mining even if left unattended without special operation - Explore and develop Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - Mining the totals 23 types of minerals such as zircon, emerald, cobalt, and iridium - Various digging equipment is available such as turbo, hurricane, super, and Thor - Various mining equipment is available such as blade, claw, and destroyer - Various elevator equipment is available such as dash, lightning, and warp - Various storage vehicle equipment is available such as armor, bore, and jumbo - The manager system that helps mine operation to more convenient - A resource conversion system that able to recycle resources to strengthen various abilities - Various surprise mission such as mine closure, treasure chest, meteorite, and mineral vein discovery - News system that provides buff and de-buff effects in real time - Provided dozens of various missions - Provided various bonuses such as mini-games and space exploration - Supported 16 languages - Supported achievement and leaderboards - Supported tablet devices Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/mobirixplayen YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/mobirix1
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cave Driller at 5.0 against Ground Driller's 4.4. Cave Driller also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Ground Driller's advantage is ratings volume (498 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ground Driller sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Cave Driller sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cave Driller holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ground Driller has 498 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Ground Driller's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cave Driller's.
Ground Driller ships an update monthly, Cave Driller every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ground Driller | Cave Driller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (498 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 498 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 234 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fevergames inc. | MOBIRIX |
Customer experience
Ground Driller
Cave Driller
Bugs and requests
Ground Driller
Reported bugs
3 issues- Coin count not visible on iPhone X/XS/XR
- Timers not counting down when app is closed
- Ads not loading properly
Requested features
5 requests- Offline resource generation
- Bulk upgrade options
- Competitive/social features
- More end-game content
- Compatibility improvements for newer iPhones
Cave Driller
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ground Driller
- 300 Dia$1.99
- 1200 Dia$6.99
- Speed-up 3x$6.99
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- Remove Bad News$6.99
- 4200 Diamonds$19.99
- 8000 Dia$34.99
- 18000 Dia(Limited)$34.99
- 18000 Diamonds$69.99
Cave Driller
- ruby 900$2.99
- Beginner Bonus Box Package$4.99
- ruby 1,500$4.99
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- Start Package$9.99
- Premium Bonus Box Package$9.99
- ruby 3,300$9.99
- ruby 10,800$29.99
- ruby 19,500$49.99
- Master Package$99.99
- ruby 45,000$99.99
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