Mystery Digger vs Keep on Mining!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mystery Digger
Explore underground mysteries in this idle clicker game. Upgrade your drilling machine to uncover hidden notes and intriguing items that reveal a captivating story. Enjoy straightforward controls and soothing gameplay for a relaxing adventure.
- Idle clicker gameplay
- Underground exploration
- Drilling machine upgrades
- Uncover hidden notes
- Collect intriguing items
- Captivating story progression
- Relaxing adventure
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Mystery Digger is a clicker idle game in which you explore underground mysteries while upgrading your drilling machine. You uncover hidden notes and intriguing items that piece together a captivating story. With straightforward controls and soothing gameplay, each journey into the depths offers a fresh and relaxing adventure tailored to your curiosity.
Keep on Mining!
An incremental mining game where you automatically mine rocks and gather ores. Craft materials into bars, upgrade your stats through a skill tree, and unlock new pickaxes to mine faster. Utilize talent cards and an idle mine mechanic to progress.
- Automatic rock mining
- Ore gathering and crafting
- Skill tree upgrades
- Craftable pickaxes
- Talent card system
- Idle mine mechanic
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Mine rocks! Keep on Mining! is a simple incremental game. Hover your cursor over rocks to automatically mine them. Any rock inside the mining area will spawn pickaxes that mine for you! Gather materials! Mined rocks drop ores, which are crafted into bars. There is a variety of different material rocks to be mined! The skill tree! Spend your material bars to unlock upgrades inside the skill tree. These upgrades permanently boost your stats, letting you mine rocks with more power! Craft pickaxes! Use different materials to craft new pickaxes. Each new pickaxe has better stats, helping you mine faster and hit harder! Talent cards! Every time you level up, you earn a talent point. Spend talent points to reveal 3 random talent cards — pick one to keep! Choosing a card increases the talent level, but also increases rock HP. The Mine! Once you unlock the mine, it will automatically mine rocks and instantly craft bars for you. The Mine is the idle mechanic of Keep on Mining!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mystery Digger at Free against Keep on Mining!'s $3.99. Mystery Digger also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 79%). Keep on Mining!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Mystery Digger is free to download; Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Keep on Mining! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 33 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Mystery Digger's written reviews are positive against 79% of Keep on Mining!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Mystery Digger | Keep on Mining! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (30 ratings) | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 79.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolai Perminov | Simon Eftestøl |
Customer experience
Mystery Digger
Keep on Mining!
In-app purchases
Mystery Digger
No in-app purchases
Keep on Mining!
No in-app purchases
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