Comparison

Idle Cave Miner 2 vs Idle Deepcore

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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?

About

Idle Deepcore

Embark on an epic pixel-art mining adventure, tapping to break blocks and collect ore. Automate your progress with upgradeable machines, even while offline, and descend through diverse biomes to discover rarer resources. Reset your progress for permanent boosts and unlock new systems to dig deeper and get richer.

Highlights
  • Tap-to-mine with pixel-art feedback
  • Automate with upgradeable mining machines
  • Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots
  • Descend through distinct biomes
  • Prestige for permanent power
  • Build a rocket and mine asteroids
  • Offline progress
Features
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Idle Deepcore is a pixel-art idle mining game about digging from the surface all the way down to the planet's molten core — and beyond, into orbit. Tap to break blocks and collect ore, then buy machines — jackhammers, steam drills, seismic hammers, excavators and more — to mine for you, even while you're away. The deeper you dig, the rarer the ore and the tougher the blocks. FEATURES • Tap-to-mine with crunchy pixel-art feedback • Automate with a roster of upgradeable mining machines • Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots in your furnaces • Descend through distinct biomes to ever-deeper layers • Prestige to reset for permanent power and unlock new systems • Skill tree, mastery nodes and a research lab to specialize each run • Build a rocket and mine asteroids out in orbit • Offline progress — your machines keep mining while the app is closed • Cloud save via Game Center — back up and restore your progress • Playable in 29 languages Optional rewarded ads can double your offline haul — never required to progress. Dig deeper. Get richer. Idle Deepcore.

Screenshots

Idle Cave Miner 24 screens
Idle Deepcore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Idle Cave Miner 2 at none against Idle Deepcore's shown. Idle Cave Miner 2 also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 50%) and ratings volume (368 vs 80). Idle Deepcore's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle Cave Miner 2 sells 23 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Deepcore sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Idle Cave Miner 2 against 4.6 for Idle Deepcore. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 368 and 80 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Idle Cave Miner 2's written reviews are positive against 50% of Idle Deepcore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Cave Miner 2 ships an update every 9 days, Idle Deepcore every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Cave Miner 2 versus Idle Deepcore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Cave Miner 2Idle Deepcore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (368 ratings) — better4.6 (80 ratings)
Positive reviews84.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings368 — better80
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB138 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCold Hours, Unipessoal LDAFlavio Valceschini

Customer experience

Idle Cave Miner 2

All ratings353 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive84.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative6.3%

Idle Deepcore

All ratings51 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

23 purchases

Idle Cave Miner 2

One-time23
  • 100 Premium Gems$1.99
  • Floor 5 Clear Bundle$1.99
  • New Player Bundle$3.99
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  • Floor 10 Clear Bundle$4.99
  • Progress Bundle$9.99
  • Miner Bundle Akane$9.99
  • Miner Bundle Maya$9.99
  • Miner Bundle Kemo$9.99
  • Miner Bundle Lady Love$9.99
  • Floor 25 Clear Bundle$9.99
  • Starter Bundle$9.99
  • Mine Bundle$14.99
  • Floor 50 Clear Bundle$14.99
  • Forge Bundle$19.99
  • Floor 175 Clear Bundle$29.99
  • Floor 300 Clear Bundle$39.99
  • Floor 400 Clear Bundle$39.99
  • Floor 250 Clear Bundle$39.99
  • Floor 350 Clear Bundle$39.99
  • Floor 500 Clear Bundle$49.99
  • Floor 600 Clear Bundle$59.99
  • Floor 750 Clear Bundle$79.99
  • Floor 1000 Clear Bundle$79.99
1 purchases

Idle Deepcore

One-time1
  • Supporter Pack$5.99

Questions

Is Idle Cave Miner 2 free?
Idle Cave Miner 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Deepcore free?
Idle Deepcore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle Cave Miner 2 or Idle Deepcore?
Idle Cave Miner 2 is rated higher. Idle Cave Miner 2 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 368 ratings, while Idle Deepcore averages 4.6 from 80 ratings.
Do Idle Cave Miner 2 or Idle Deepcore have ads?
Idle Deepcore shows ads; Idle Cave Miner 2 does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Cave Miner 2 or Idle Deepcore?
Idle Cave Miner 2 ships an update every 9 days, and Idle Deepcore every 5 days. Most recently, Idle Cave Miner 2 was updated on October 30, 2026 and Idle Deepcore on October 24, 2026.

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