Classic Miner vs Candy Block Craft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classic Miner
Dig for gold and diamonds in this classic arcade-style game. Aim your hook, collect valuable treasures, and advance through unique levels. Compete for high scores and become a mining tycoon.
- Mine gold and diamonds
- Advance through unique levels
- Save progress and continue playing
- Retry levels with video resurrection
- Endless high score challenges
- Randomized level maps
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After years of exploration, Classic Miner finally found more gold mines. Classic Miner use skilled techniques to dig gold and diamond to earn more cash. Let’s work together to mine new mines and become a billionaire! * The score of each level reaches the goal, and you will go to the next level. The game has a save function, you can start from that level if you exit level. * Skill guide : When you play for a few seconds and the score does not reach the target, if you want to replay that level, you can press “Exit Level” before time 0, then press “Menu”, then press “Start”, then choose “Continue”. If you fail, please press Retry, and you can resurrect to continue playing after watching the video. If there is no video stock, you must wait or press Back to exit and start again. * Many unique levels but play endlessly to get a high score * Classic Miner is one of most popular online games. Now it’s available on iOS. Hope you will enjoy it! * Aim on the gold while the hook swings, and click on the screen to release the hook. * Every time you play, the map of each level may be different, so every time you play it is a new challenge!
Candy Block Craft
A classic block puzzle game where you strategically place candy blocks to form complete lines. Keep the board clear and aim for high scores on the global leaderboard in this addictive, no-time-limit challenge.
- Block placement puzzle
- Create and destroy full lines
- No time limit
- No color matching
- Global leaderboard
- Addictive gameplay
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Candy Block Puzzle is a cute board puzzle game. It's kinda another variation of Tetris.Very easy to learn and fun to master. Just drop candy blocks to create and destroy full lines on the screen both vertically and horizontally and keep the candy blocks from filling the screen in this addictive puzzle game. Global leaderboard available in this puzzle game and grab it now and beat players all over the world! No time limit, no colour match! Fill all the grids with the matching blocks and enjoy this puzzle game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Candy Block Craft at none against Classic Miner's 6. Candy Block Craft also leads on review sentiment (98% vs 68%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Classic Miner's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 97) and chart position (#207 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Classic Miner sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Candy Block Craft asks for nothing beyond the download.
Candy Block Craft holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classic Miner has 2.3K ratings behind it against 97, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Classic Miner's written reviews are positive against 98% of Candy Block Craft's.
Classic Miner ships an update every 3 months, Candy Block Craft every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Classic Miner | Candy Block Craft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.3K ratings) | 4.7 (97 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 97.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 97 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #207 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LIN CHENG SHAN | 俊 殷 |
Customer experience
Classic Miner
Candy Block Craft
Bugs and requests
Classic Miner
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game resets progress after updates
- Claw movement and timing issues
- Ads blocking gameplay and interfering with controls
Requested features
4 requests- Save progress and resume from last level
- More varied and challenging levels
- Option to remove ads or pay for ad-free version
- Ability to retry failed levels instead of restarting
Candy Block Craft
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Classic Miner
- 8 Lives$0.99
- 30000 Coins$0.99
- 18 Lives$1.99
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- 30 Lives$2.99
- 45 Lives$3.99
- 60 Lives$4.99
Candy Block Craft
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Classic Miner free?
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