Keep on Mining! vs Swing & Stick!
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!
Swing & Stick!
Guide a hanging ball with a one-finger crane to hit targets across 60 physics-based levels. Smash blocks, activate switches, and master moving platforms. Collect optional coins for cosmetic unlocks or try daily challenges.
- One-finger crane control
- 60 physics-based courses
- Smash blocks and hit switches
- Collect optional Star Coins
- Daily challenges
- Cosmetic ball unlocks
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Swipe, swing and stick the landing! Move a crane with one finger and guide its hanging ball to the target. Cross walls, smash blocks, hit switches and master moving platforms across 60 physics courses. Follow the finger guide or watch a demonstration when you need a hint. Take a trickier route to collect optional Star Coins. You only keep them if you also clear the course. Continue straight into the next course, try five daily challenges, and compare all-time records with your nickname and country flag. Unlock sparkling cosmetic balls with cumulative rewarded-ad views, or buy selected balls. All balls have identical performance. Watch one rewarded ad or spend earned game coins for five attempts at 1.5× slower speed. Slow runs are excluded from normal rankings. Free to play with unlimited retries. Contains ads and optional in-app purchases. Permanent interstitial removal stops ads between attempts; rewarded ads remain optional. 11 languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian and Indonesian. The game follows your device language, and you can change it in the language menu. Progress is saved on your device. Rankings, ads and purchases require an internet connection. MINIMUM STUDIO team@minimumstudio.net https://home.minimumstudio.net/privacy/crane-ball-wall/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Swing & Stick! at Free against Keep on Mining!'s $3.99. Swing & Stick! also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Keep on Mining!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Swing & Stick! is free to download; Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 up front. Swing & Stick! sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Keep on Mining! asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Keep on Mining! | Swing & Stick! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Simon Eftestøl | Minimum Studio Corp. |
Customer experience
Keep on Mining!
Swing & Stick!
In-app purchases
Keep on Mining!
No in-app purchases
Swing & Stick!
- Royal Gold Ball$0.29
- Remove Interstitial Ads$0.49
- Aurora Cosmos Ball$0.49
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