Comparison

Keep on Mining! vs Outhold

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

Head to head
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!

About

Outhold

A strategic incremental game combining tower defense with deep meta-progression. Experiment with various builds and discover powerful synergies to defend the last fires. Enjoy an addictive game loop with a deep upgrade tree where experimentation is rewarded.

Highlights
  • Incremental tower defense gameplay
  • Deep meta-progression
  • Build variety and synergies
  • Addictive game loop
  • Deep upgrade tree
  • Free upgrade refunds
Features
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[Incremental Tower Defense with Build Variety] Outhold is a short, strategic incremental game that blends tower defense with a deep meta-progression. Experiment with builds and find overpowered synergies to defend the dwindling fires of Outhold. [Addictive Game Loop] Start a run, see how far you get. Use your collected resources to buy upgrades and try again. Become powerful enough to obliterate everything coming against you. [Deep Upgrade Tree] Create unique builds that fit your playstyle. Experimentation is rewarded, and all upgrades can be refunded for free. [Strategize] Focus on upgrading just one specific tower, or find unique tower synergies. There are many ways to progress through Outhold, the choice is up to you.

Screenshots

Keep on Mining!4 screens
Outhold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Outhold at free against Keep on Mining!'s paid. Outhold also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and chart position (#44 vs unranked). Keep on Mining!'s advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 70%). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 and Outhold $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Outhold holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Outhold has 181 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Keep on Mining!'s written reviews are positive against 70% of Outhold's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Keep on Mining! versus Outhold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeep on Mining!Outhold
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating4.7 (31 ratings)4.9 (181 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings31181 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#44 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon EftestølMinMax Software AB

Customer experience

Keep on Mining!

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

Outhold

All ratings181 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative5.0%

In-app purchases

None

Keep on Mining!

No in-app purchases

None

Outhold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Keep on Mining! free?
Keep on Mining! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Outhold free?
Outhold costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Keep on Mining! or Outhold?
Outhold is rated higher. Keep on Mining! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Outhold averages 4.9 from 181 ratings.
Do Keep on Mining! or Outhold have ads?
Neither Keep on Mining! nor Outhold shows ads.

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