Keep on Mining! vs Gem Tower Defense Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Gem Tower Defense Mobile
Strategically place and combine gems to build mazes and towers, defending against waves of enemies. Each playthrough offers a unique puzzle with diverse gem abilities and enemy types.
- Build winding mazes and towers
- Draft, reroll, and combine gems
- Follow templates for advanced combinations
- Discover gems with distinct stats
- Defend against different enemy types
- Survive 50 challenging waves
- Retro pixel art graphics
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Build the maze. Draft your gems. Survive all 50 waves. Gem Tower Defense Mobile is a retro reimagining of the classic GemTD custom-map experience, rebuilt from the ground up for touchscreens. Every gem you place is both a tower and part of your maze. Shape enemy routes, create powerful choke points, and keep each wave under fire for as long as possible. One clever placement can transform your entire defense. Each draft brings a new decision. Keep the gem, reroll it, or combine matching gems into stronger towers. Follow gem templates to work toward powerful combinations, or adapt your strategy when the pieces you need refuse to appear. No two defenses play exactly alike. Study each gem’s damage, range, attack speed, targeting, and special effects. Mix colors and abilities to cover weak points, slow dangerous enemies, and prepare for the next wave. When every tile counts, use the magnifier for precise placement. FEATURES • Survive 50 increasingly challenging waves • Build winding mazes while placing your towers • Draft, keep, reroll, and combine gems • Follow templates to create advanced gem combinations • Discover gems with distinct stats and special effects • Defend against different enemy types and threats • Use the magnifier for precise, touch-friendly building • Enjoy crisp retro pixel art inspired by classic custom-map strategy games Every run is a new strategy puzzle. Will you chase a rare combination, reinforce the maze you already have, or gamble on one more draft? Build carefully. Combine wisely. Defend the path.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Keep on Mining! at 4.8 against Gem Tower Defense Mobile's 3.0. Keep on Mining! also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 2) and chart position (#186 vs unranked). Gem Tower Defense Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, 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
Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 and Gem Tower Defense Mobile $2.99 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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Keep on Mining! has 33 ratings behind it against 2, 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 100% of Gem Tower Defense Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Keep on Mining! | Gem Tower Defense Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #186 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Eftestøl | Jameson DeVol |
Customer experience
Keep on Mining!
Gem Tower Defense Mobile
In-app purchases
Keep on Mining!
No in-app purchases
Gem Tower Defense Mobile
No in-app purchases
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