Timber Squad vs Idle Cave Miner 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timber Squad
Engage in axe-swinging battles by felling trees to grow your lumberjack clan. Fight waves of enemies, upgrade your heroes' stats, and dominate the arena in an endless challenge.
- Grow your lumberjack clan by felling trees
- Fight hordes of relentless enemies
- Upgrade hero stats and build a powerful team
- Dominate the infinite arena
- Unlock unique characters
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Get ready for some axe-swinging action! Fell trees, grow your clan, and unlock unique characters. * Grow Your Clan * Chop down trees to spawn new clan members who will join you in the fight. Steal resources from your rivals and grow an entire army of lumberjacks! * Fight Hordes of Enemies * Face waves of relentless foes in thrilling battles. Survive the fight, claim your rewards, and expand your roster with powerful new heroes! * Upgrade Your Team * Power up your heroes by upgrading their key stats. Build a well-rounded clan ready to take on any challenge as you rise through the ranks. * Dominate the Arena * Enter the Arena to face an infinite onslaught of enemies. With no level cap, the challenge never ends, but you’ll always be moving forward. Carve your path to victory in Timber Squad!
Idle Cave Miner 2
Assemble a team of miners to explore deep mines, gather resources, and craft items. Battle monsters in unique worlds, unlock new miners and pets, and upgrade your crew to uncover ancient mysteries and find a mythical gem.
- Unlock and upgrade 30+ miners
- Break through destructible mines block by block
- Explore unique mining and combat worlds
- Process resources through forging
- Unlock powerful research boosts
- Acquire pets for miner assistance
- Trade resources in the market
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Assemble your team, and find out what lurks deep in the mines of Idle Cave Miner 2! Idle Cave Miner 2 is an idle incremental game where you mine resources, craft items, and upgrade your team of miners. Explore unique worlds, where you can battle monsters and acquire items to help you on your journey. Unlock miners, pets, items, achievements, and hundreds of upgrades to go deeper than ever on your quest to find the mythical wishing gem, which is said to provide a wish to the one who finds it. Does it exist? Who are these miners, and what are their wishes? What mysteries await them? What's new on Idle Cave Miner 2: Idle Cave Miner 2 takes everything you loved about the first game and makes it better than ever with a fresh new look, completely reworked progression, and an updated roster of miners. A major new addition is the Combat World, where you'll be able to fight monsters and defeat bosses to acquire unique items. The interface is clearer, animations are smoother, and progression has been redesigned from the ground up to provide a balanced experience as you travel between worlds, and go deeper than ever to uncover the mysteries of the mines. Idle Cave Miner 2 Features: ● Miners: Unlock and upgrade 30+ miners with special abilities to reach the depths of the mines. Assemble the ultimate mining crew, and watch out for powerful synergies between miners. ● Destructible Mines: You and your team will break through each mine, one block at a time! When no blocks are left standing in your path, you venture deeper into the mines. ● Unique Worlds: Explore 2 unique worlds, each with its own gameplay and upgrades, and gather special resources to unlock upgrades in the other worlds. The "Mining world" where your goal is to go as deep as possible, the "Combat world", where you will fight monsters and defeat bosses. ● Forging: Process the resources your miners gather into their refined version, and use those for powerful upgrades to aid you in your journey. Upgrade your forges to make this process faster, and develop a strategy for optimal production. ● Researches: As you collect more and more resources, you'll be able to unlock researches, these will provide strong boosts to you and your miners, pick the best options for your style of gameplay and conquer the mines! ● Pets: Pets are here to aid the miners on their journey, they provide boosts to your miners to help them progress further into the depths. ● Market: Too much of one resource? Too little of another? The market is the solution for you, sell your items for a common currency, and then exchange that currency for the item you need. Want better rates? The daily deals provide you with unique exchange opportunities, although these have limited stock. ● Prestige: Collect lost souls along your descent, and when you're ready, prestige those souls into miner souls, you'll start over from the first floor, however, you can use these souls to unlock extremely powerful upgrades, regaining your previous progress much faster than before. ● Combat World: Fight monsters, and defeat powerful bosses with your hero. Increase its strength to be able to face increasingly powerful foes. Travel between various areas, discover dungeons filled with formidable opponents, and use the spoils of battle to your advantage. ● Achievements: Unlock tons of achievements, these are not just visual, you don't just get rewards, but also permanent boosts to your soul collection. How many will you be able to get? ● Leaderboards: Global leaderboards! Conquer the ranks and try to reach the top, each world has its own ranking, based on the progression of that world. ● Lore: Unlock the history of this world as you go deeper into the mines, and find out whether the mythical wishing stone exists or not. Everything has a secret, who are these miners? What do they want? What mysteries await them in the depths of the mines?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle Cave Miner 2 at 4.8 against Timber Squad's 3.0. Idle Cave Miner 2 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (368 vs 2). Timber Squad's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Timber Squad sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Cave Miner 2 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Cave Miner 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Cave Miner 2 has 368 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Timber Squad's written reviews are positive against 84% of Idle Cave Miner 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Timber Squad ships an update every 3 weeks, Idle Cave Miner 2 every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Timber Squad | Idle Cave Miner 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (368 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 368 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roofdog Games | Cold Hours, Unipessoal LDA |
Customer experience
Timber Squad
Idle Cave Miner 2
In-app purchases
Timber Squad
- Gems Pack 1$0.99
- Gems Pack 2$1.99
- Gems Pack 3$2.99
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- VIP Pass$4.99
Idle Cave Miner 2
- 100 Premium Gems$1.99
- Floor 5 Clear Bundle$1.99
- New Player Bundle$3.99
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- Progress Bundle$9.99
- Miner Bundle Akane$9.99
- Miner Bundle Maya$9.99
- Miner Bundle Kemo$9.99
- Starter Bundle$9.99
- Mine Bundle$14.99
- Forge Bundle$19.99
Questions
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