Comparison

Level Up Village! vs Keep on Mining!

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

Head to head
About

Level Up Village!

Build a thriving village and gather heroes to battle monsters in this idle town-building simulator. Enjoy auto-battles, hero collection, and an infinite growth system. Your town and heroes grow even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Idle town-building simulation
  • Auto battles with offline progression
  • Hero collection and team strategy
  • Hero leveling, promotion, and talent system
  • Tower climbing and treasure discovery
  • Charming pixel art graphics
Features
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▶ Hero Town in Crisis?! Right in Front of the Demon Lord’s Castle?! Build your village, gather heroes, and fight back against endless monsters! A vertical idle simulation with auto battles and strategic town-building! ▶ Idle Town-Building Simulation Slay monsters and collect resources to construct and upgrade your own village. Create a thriving town that grows even while you're away. ▶ Auto Battles & Explosive Growth Turn off the game, and your heroes keep fighting! Gain experience and loot automatically to grow fast. ▶ Hero Collection & Team Strategy Recruit pixel-art heroes with unique jobs and skills. Build the ultimate team and take down powerful monsters with synergy. ▶ The Ultimate Hero Growth System Level up, promote, and unlock talents. Enjoy an infinite growth loop packed with upgrade satisfaction. ▶ Climb the Tower & Discover Hidden Treasures Explore unknown floors, defeat boss monsters, and find rare loot! ▶ Charming Pixel Art Heroes Cute and quirky pixel characters, flashy skills, and a delightful little town! Enjoy the fun of collecting and growing in a world full of charm. Start building your town and summon your heroes now! A growing town, evolving battles, and nonstop idle progression await! Play Level Up Village today!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic rock mining
  • Ore gathering and crafting
  • Skill tree upgrades
  • Craftable pickaxes
  • Talent card system
  • Idle mine mechanic
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Level Up Village!4 screens
Keep on Mining!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Level Up Village! at Free against Keep on Mining!'s $3.99. Level Up Village! also leads on ratings volume (665 vs 31). Keep on Mining!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Level Up Village! is free to download; Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 up front. Level Up Village! sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Keep on Mining! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Level Up Village! against 4.7 for Keep on Mining!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Level Up Village! has 665 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Level Up Village!'s written reviews are positive against 79% of Keep on Mining!'s.

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Level Up Village! versus Keep on Mining!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLevel Up Village!Keep on Mining!
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.8 (665 ratings) — better4.7 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews79.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings665 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB218 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperekgamesSimon Eftestøl

Customer experience

Level Up Village!

All ratings665 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative24.2%

Keep on Mining!

All ratings31 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral7.5%
Negative13.2%

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Level Up Village!

One-time18
  • Level Up Village Package 15$0.99
  • Level Up Village Package 16$1.99
  • Level Up Village Package 1$1.99
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  • Level Up Village Package 17$3.99
  • Level Up Village Package 2$3.99
  • Level Up Village Package 8$3.99
  • Level Up Village Package 18$6.99
  • Level Up Village Package 3$7.99
  • Level Up Village Package 9$7.99
  • No Ads$8.99
  • Auto Hunt Reward x2$14.99
  • Level Up Village Package 10$17.99
  • Level Up Village Package 4$17.99
  • Level Up Village Package 19$20.99
  • Level Up Village Package 11$31.99
  • Level Up Village Package 5$31.99
  • Level Up Village Package 6$64.99
  • Level Up Village Package 12$64.99
None

Keep on Mining!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Level Up Village! free?
Level Up Village! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keep on Mining! free?
Keep on Mining! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Level Up Village! or Keep on Mining!?
Level Up Village! is rated higher. Level Up Village! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 665 ratings, while Keep on Mining! averages 4.7 from 31 ratings.
Do Level Up Village! or Keep on Mining! have ads?
Level Up Village! shows ads; Keep on Mining! does not.

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