Comparison

Fire Captain vs Miner Hero!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fire Captain

Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.

Highlights
  • Base building
  • Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
  • Handle exciting missions
  • Multiple maps and missions
  • Recruit different heroes
Features
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros

About

Miner Hero!

Embark on an adventure through dungeons and mines. Upgrade your pickaxe, weapons, and gear to battle creatures and explore new maps. Discover new caves and expand your mining expeditions.

Highlights
  • Explore caves and mines
  • Dig with a pickaxe
  • Upgrade weapons and gear
  • Fight dungeon creatures
  • Discover new maps
Features
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Explore caves and dig mines with your pickaxe! Upgrade your weapon and fight with dungeon creatures. Upgrade your pickaxe, ring and guns! Explore new caves and new maps!

Screenshots

Fire Captain4 screens
Miner Hero!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fire Captain at 4.2 against Miner Hero!'s 2.5. Fire Captain also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (70 vs 8). Miner Hero!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Miner Hero! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fire Captain holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fire Captain has 70 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Fire Captain's written reviews are positive against 20% of Miner Hero!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fire Captain ships an update weekly, Miner Hero! every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Fire Captain versus Miner Hero!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFire CaptainMiner Hero!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (70 ratings) — better2.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews25.9% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings70 — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size533 MB380 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd.Ugur Gulser

Customer experience

Fire Captain

All ratings70 ratings
Positive74.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive25.9%
Neutral38.9%
Negative35.2%

Miner Hero!

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

Fire Captain

Reported bugs

49 issues
  • Game stops at level 16
  • Game will not load
  • Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
  • Boat unavailable in drill
  • Helipad built but no aircraft
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  • Unable to load boat in mission 15
  • Video button for rewards doesn't work
  • Game broken and closes app at level 17
  • Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
  • Glitch in level 15
  • Firefighters run through building instead of around
  • Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
  • AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
  • People walk through walls and get stuck
  • Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
  • Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
  • Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
  • Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
  • Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
  • Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
  • Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
  • Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
  • Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
  • Game bugs out at a certain point
  • Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
  • Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
  • Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
  • Game crashes and glitches after level 8
  • Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
  • Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
  • Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
  • Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
  • Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
  • Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
  • Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
  • Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
  • Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
  • Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
  • Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
  • Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
  • Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
  • Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
  • Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
  • Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
  • Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
  • Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
  • Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
  • Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
  • Lags and unable to complete missions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Make more levels
  • Fix bugs before release
  • Improve AI pathfinding
  • More extinguishers for fires

Miner Hero!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Fire Captain

One-time10
  • A Couple of Gems$0.99
  • New Player Package$1.99
  • A Handful of Gems$2.99
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  • ToolPackage$3.99
  • Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
  • A Pile of Gems$4.99
  • VehiclePackage$8.99
  • A Sack of Gems$9.99
  • ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
  • VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
None

Miner Hero!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fire Captain free?
Fire Captain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Miner Hero! free?
Miner Hero! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fire Captain or Miner Hero!?
Fire Captain is rated higher. Fire Captain averages 4.2 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Miner Hero! averages 2.5 from 8 ratings.
Do Fire Captain or Miner Hero! have ads?
Both Fire Captain and Miner Hero! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Fire Captain or Miner Hero!?
Fire Captain ships an update weekly, and Miner Hero! every 3 weeks. Most recently, Fire Captain was updated on September 22, 2026 and Miner Hero! on June 4, 2026.

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