Blast Mining vs Mining Rush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blast Mining
Engage in an exciting idle clicker experience where you blast mines and sell them. Upgrade your tools and speed to explore a vast mining world. The challenge increases, requiring continuous self-improvement to clear all mines.
- Blast mines
- Sell mined resources
- Upgrade bombshells
- Increase speed
- Explore mining world
- Idle gameplay
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Ready to be a great miner? Blow the mine up and sell it! Upgrade your bombshell, get some speed and explore an awesome world of mining! It will get harder to blow all the mine up that is why you need to upgrade yourself!
Mining Rush
Operate a quarry, excavate resources, and earn money to upgrade your machinery. Aim to dig deeper and expand your mining operations.
- Operate a quarry
- Earn money from excavation
- Upgrade mining equipment
- Dig as deep as possible
- Expand quarry operations
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Dig a quarry, make money and upgrade your equipment to dig as deep as possible!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blast Mining at none against Mining Rush's 12. Blast Mining also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.5). Mining Rush's advantage is review sentiment (16% vs 0%) and ratings volume (780 vs 62). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Mining Rush sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Blast Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Blast Mining against 4.4 for Mining Rush. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mining Rush has 780 ratings behind it against 62, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Blast Mining's written reviews are positive against 16% of Mining Rush's.
Blast Mining ships an update every 9 days, Mining Rush every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blast Mining | Mining Rush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (62 ratings) | 4.4 (780 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 15.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 | 780 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 343 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ITHINK STUDIO LIMITED | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
Blast Mining
Mining Rush
Bugs and requests
Blast Mining
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mining Rush
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes at certain levels
- Digger stops digging after upgrades
- Paid features not working as intended
- Game not loading past splash screen
Requested features
3 requests- More quarries/mining locations
- Increased level cap
- Improved stability and bug fixes
In-app purchases
Blast Mining
No in-app purchases
Mining Rush
- Cash offer 1$0.99
- Gems offer 1$0.99
- Railway Forever$1.99
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- Cash offer 2$2.99
- No ads$2.99
- Gems offer 2$2.99
- Mega Drill$4.99
- Cash offer 3$5.99
- Gems offer 3$5.99
- Premium Pack Discount$5.99
- Premium Pack$9.99
- Skip'its pack 3$12.99
Questions
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