Keep on Mining! vs A Gnome's Tower
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!
A Gnome's Tower
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The horde is coming, and the only thing standing between them and your keep is a battalion of small, heavily armed, magnificently bearded battle gnomes. A Gnome's Tower is a tower defense campaign with real depth and zero filler: THE GNOMES Seven classes of gnome soldier — riflemen, mortar crews, frost mages, venom sprayers, sky gunners, flamethrowers, and war drummers whose beat speeds up every gnome around them. Upgrades never stop, and your gnomes visibly gear up with every rank: bandoliers, gold trim, war banners, auras. THE FORGE Fuse two gnome classes into a hybrid. Fuse the same class twice for its Prime form. Then breed your creations together and fate hands you a one-of-a-kind gnome no other player will ever own — with its own name, elements, gifts, and body. Bloodlines carry down through generations. Rarely, fate is generous: Mythics happen. THE CAMPAIGN Three worlds, each a fresh battlefield: the green roads of Greenvale, the frozen twin lanes of Frostreach, and the Moon itself — where a fourth road tears open mid-battle, uber engines costing a fortune await the brave, and victory means something. Then keep going in endless mode to see how deep your defense really runs. THE ELEMENTS Fire, frost, nature, storm, physical — every enemy fears something and shrugs off something else. Read the badges. Build accordingly. CURSOR STRIKES Meteor, frost nova, chain lightning — cast them yourself, right where the line is breaking. Boss-dropped Annihilation Runes wipe the field when all else fails. CO-OP (online, 2–5 players) Five roads converge on one shared Heart. Every defender guards their own road with their own gold — but lives are shared, leaks are everyone's problem, and the last stand happens together. Host with a 4-letter room code; family joins in seconds. A GLOBAL HALL OF FAME Your best run, ranked against every defender in the world. Waves are the only currency of honor. No accounts. No paywalls. Just the road, the horde, and the gnomes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: A Gnome's Tower at Free against Keep on Mining!'s $3.99. Keep on Mining!'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On 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
A Gnome's Tower 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.
| Parameter | Keep on Mining! | A Gnome's Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Simon Eftestøl | MATTHEW ALAN SMITH |
In-app purchases
Keep on Mining!
No in-app purchases
A Gnome's Tower
No in-app purchases
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