Trash Tycoon vs Mini Digger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trash Tycoon
Build a trash empire by recycling garbage and selling it on the stock exchange. Clean up the planet, upgrade your factories, and even race garbage trucks. Become a capitalist magnate while saving the environment.
- Recycle and sell garbage
- Build and upgrade factories
- Clean up global locations
- Compete in garbage truck races
- Offline gameplay
- One-handed play
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Are you dreaming of being rich and famous all around the world? Do you want to make billions of dollars and build your own Empire as a real magnate? Then you’ll definitely like the Trash Tycoon game! You’ll become the Savior of our planet, besides the fact that you’ll make a lot of money by selling garbage. And your success will make other people reflect on the environmental problems around them — save the ecology, protect nature, forests, and fields. In Trash Tycoon idle clicker, you will build objects for reprocessing all types of rubbish. Develop your idle factories, compactors, and containers, construct equipment for compressing trash into garbage cubes for further sale. Oddly enough, many people are involved in this scavenger hunt and want to use rubbish after recycling. The environmental activists will definitely thank you. You’ll have an opportunity to clean up all the dirtiest places on our planet: the city of Varanasi, the Mediterranean Sea, the volcano Vesuvius, the Grand Canyon, the Samsun coast, the Rub al Khali desert, the Mendenhall glacier, the Amazon jungle, the savanna of Africa and the forests of Russia. Clearing all these places of trash is such a troublesome business, but you can earn cash on it and become a real Trash Tycoon. Prehistory: You inherited an abandoned landfill from your grandpa somewhere on the outskirts of your hometown. At the landfill, you will meet a binman - your grandfather's assistant who has been recycling garbage for many years so far. Start earning your first coins using an old rusty manual compactor. And then the story can go in different ways, and only you choose the path. How to play: It is easy to play in the Trash Tycoon simulator. To compress your first garbage cube, you just need to click on the compactor. The faster you click, the more trash you get. And gradually you will be able to build an enormous Trash Empire! After compressing the first batch of garbage, it's time to sell it on the stock exchange. Watch the quotes to choose the best moment to salvage a big score. Once you get that taste and upgrade your compactor and container — move to a higher level to discover new horizons. Start clearing out the dirtiest places on our planet. And in case you get bored — this Trash2Cash simulator game has lots of exciting branches. For instance, you can carry out archaeological excavations in the mine, explore and invent new equipment in the Laboratory, make details to upgrade compactors in the Forge, fight for the best lots with a lot of cash in the Auction and much more. But the main offshoot will be the Racing World — the Garbage Truck Races, to be exact. You will be able to collect your first racing truck from trash and rush into the elite of this scavenger sports world. Features: • the Trash Tycoon game does not require a permanent Internet connection; • you can play this ecoclicker with one hand, so it won’t be difficult to play in the subway, on the bus, or even in the toilet; • some trash will be collected offline, meanwhile, you are not playing the game; • the Trash Tycoon simulator game does not have annoying ads (an ecoclicker should lack obnoxious ads, don’t you think so?); A small life hack from the developer: log in to the Trash Tycoon game several times a day to speed up your journey from trash to cash. This way you’ll succeed faster, Idle Tycoon. Forward to the eco-adventure!
Mini Digger
Manage a mining company, recruit workers, and excavate historical sites for treasures. Sell your findings, upgrade tools, and invest to grow your business. This idle clicker game offers satisfying gameplay and automatic resource generation.
- Recruit and manage miners
- Excavate heritage sites and treasures
- Sell gold and diamond ore
- Upgrade digging tools
- Explore iconic archaeological maps
- Automatic digging and mining
- Collect idle gold coins
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MINI DIGGER invites you to be the boss of the DiggyAntique company. Here you can lean back in a comfortable boss's chair, grow your mining business and become the idle rich! Recruit your workers and start digging! Excavate and uncover astonishing heritage sites, antiques, treasures, etc. Sell gold and diamond ore, polish your digging skills, invest like a business tycoon and hire more workers to speed up! Collect cultural relics from ancient times! Enjoy the beautiful and fascinating scenes of the historical remains! Start digging in one of the addicting incremental/clicker game! Can’t wait to start? Tap to Dig! HOW TO PLAY • Recruit your miners and start digging! • Profit from selling your gold and diamond ore at the right time, and upgrade your digging tools to dig faster • Find lazy workers and tap to wake them up • Explore iconic maps with archaeological themes: Easter Island, Egyptian Pyramids, and more! • Uncover the mysterious history behind relics and historical remains KEY FEATURES • Super-duper satisfying game! Casual gameplay! Perfect time killer! • Beautiful and refreshing animations and low-poly 3D graphics • Three well-designed thematic maps waiting for you to explore • Automatic digging and mining • Get idle gold coins, even when you are sleeping! • Lots of gifts: daily rewards, lucky wheel, and more! Get some free stuff every day! Mini Digger introduces you to an intriguing way to spend your free time with pleasure, relax your mind and learn background stories about ancient treasures. The delightful simulation idle mining game is definitely worth a try! All it takes for your mining journey to unfold is you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trash Tycoon at 4.6 against Mini Digger's 4.0. Trash Tycoon also leads on review sentiment (45% vs 28%) and ratings volume (995 vs 96). Mini Digger's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). 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. Trash Tycoon sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Mini Digger sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trash Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trash Tycoon has 995 ratings behind it against 96, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Trash Tycoon's written reviews are positive against 28% of Mini Digger's.
Trash Tycoon ships an update fortnightly, Mini Digger every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trash Tycoon | Mini Digger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (995 ratings) — better | 4.0 (96 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.3% of reviews — better | 28.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 995 — better | 96 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 665 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aliaksandr Prakarym | Chengdu Warrior Tech Limited |
Customer experience
Trash Tycoon
Mini Digger
User reviews
Trash Tycoon
From 995 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Fun and entertaining
- 💡 Unique idle/clicker mechanics
- 🚗 Enjoyable racing elements
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and loading issues
- 🚫 Ads still present despite paid ad removal
- 🤔 Unclear instructions and tutorials
- 🔧 Bugs with certain features (e.g., racing, compactors)
Mini Digger
From 96 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun to play
- 👍 Good graphics
- 👍 Satisfying mining sounds
- 👍 Good game idea
- 👍 Good for passing time
Room to improve
- 광고 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Game won't load/start
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Short game length (few levels)
- 🐛 Paid ad removal doesn't work
Bugs and requests
Trash Tycoon
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game getting stuck on loading screen
- Inability to level up or progress past certain points
- Purchased items/upgrades not functioning as expected
- Inconsistent behavior with auto-compaction and resource generation
Requested features
4 requests- More detailed tutorial and in-game instructions
- Option to disable manual racing and have it be fully automated
- Improved translation and localization support
- Ability to save and restore progress across devices
Mini Digger
Reported bugs
10 issues- Won't load
- Login failed (Apple/Guest)
- Initialization error
- Game won't start
- App is slow
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- Paid for no ads but still have ads
- Game locked at end of third stage
- Subscription not appearing in Apple subscriptions
- Crashing/erroring out on login
- Cannot get offline rewards
Requested features
5 requests- Add more levels/maps
- Add trucks
- Add diggers permanently
- Improve ad removal functionality
- Add Russian language support
In-app purchases
Trash Tycoon
- START pass$1.99
- Special pack Start pass$1.99
- Tiny gold cash pack$2.99
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- Piggy bank$3.99
- Small gold cash pack$6.99
- Gold compactor for trash$7.99
- PRO pass$7.99
- Gold equipment for trash$9.99
- Medium gold cash pack$12.99
- VIP pass$21.99
- Exclusive compactor for trash$21.99
- Exclusive equipment for trash$29.99
- Large gold cash pack$29.99
Mini Digger
- Monthly Subscription 9.99$9.991 Month
- Beginner Pack 0.99$0.99
- Beginner Pack 2$1.99
- Beginner Pack$2.99
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- Remove interstitial ads$2.99
- Second Scene Pack$4.99
- Super Miner 9.99$9.99
- Armor Miner 9.99$9.99
- Monthly Card$9.99
- Double revenue 10.99$10.99
Questions
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