Pixel Miner vs Ballin Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Miner
Mine through the earth pixel by pixel, upgrading equipment and exploring celestial locations. Collect treasures, complete challenges, and build your base to unlock powerful bonuses. The miner works even when you're away, ensuring a full pocket upon return.
- Pixel-by-pixel digging
- Equipment upgrades
- 12 equipment tiers
- 6 unique locations
- Treasure collection
- Base building
- Offline progress
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Pixel Miner is a free idle mining clicker with no ads. Your miner digs on his own, pixels fill the pocket, and when the pocket is full the mine waits for you: come back, collect, upgrade, dig deeper. Formerly known as Dig Too Deep. HOW IT PLAYS - Idle mining: the miner keeps digging while the app is closed. Offline progress fills your pocket. - Hard-capped pocket: when it is full, mining stops. Short check-ins, real decisions, no endless overflow. - Upgrades: 12 tools from Hammer to Black Hole, speed multipliers, 10 pocket sizes. - Prestige: reach the core, reset the run, earn Crystals, build a permanent base. - Six planets: Earth, Moon, Mars, Europa, the Sun and an endless Black Hole, each with its own trade-offs. - Ascension: a second prestige layer that earns Star Dust for permanent upgrades. - Treasures, caves, challenges, achievements and active abilities on top of the incremental loop. RETRO CRT LOOK Pixel art with scanlines and a palette borrowed from the Amiga and ZX Spectrum era. NO ADS Nothing to watch, ever. The whole game is free. One optional purchase, the Miner's License, doubles your pocket and adds 10% pixels. No subscriptions. Optimized for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo.
Ballin Tycoon
Experience a satisfying idle arcade game by dropping balls down a peg board, aiming for jackpots, and using wins to unlock new worlds, upgrade abilities, and collect unique pets. Engage in daily quests, tournaments, and mini-games for continuous rewards and progression.
- Idle Plinko gameplay
- Four unique worlds to explore
- Collect and upgrade 36 pets
- Daily quests and weekly tournaments
- One-handed portrait play
- Guilds and leaderboards
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Experience a deep incremental idle simulator built for fans of the genre! Drop, bounce, collect, upgrade, raid?! your way through a massive incremental ball drop arcade in this lengthy, content-rich idle tycoon game! Ballin Idle Pet Tycoon has A LOT to keep you grinding, including: ๏ The Hoard - Build up your pet crew's damage to crack chests and break the gates. Every gate you break unlocks new menus, new upgrades and new content for your idle empire ๏ LOTS of upgrades - Bins collect ores, ores craft into bars, bars buy upgrades. Board upgrades, world upgrades, the Armory, a 55-node skill tree and research projects, lots of them locked behind gates and milestones ๏ 69 pets - Open pet crates to find them, level them up, fuse duplicates, evolve your favourites and hunt the shiny versions. Every pet is a stat for your run and a worker for your tycoon ๏ Systems unveiled over time - Boss Raids, Ball Grove, Chest Rush, the pinball arcade, Expeditions, the Ball Factory, Research, Prestige?! ๏ Active and idle gameplay - Tap to launch, hold to send a hundred balls, or let auto-drop and your pets do the work and come back to offline progress. A true incremental game either way ๏ Five worlds - Break out of the first board into the frozen Aurora Vault, overgrown Flora, the deep Maelstrom and the volcanic Inferno. Each world is a new board with new ores, new pets and its own pet crate ๏ Prestige - Unearth powerful artifacts that boost your stats on every run after ๏ 4-player boss raids - Pick a class, bring your pets and take the Warden down together, then open the loot chest and hunt the rare drop ๏ Collect everything - Sticker packs and seasonal albums, 38 skins for your miner, trophies, titles and a pet dex. Completionists have a very long list to work through Why players love Ballin Tycoon: ๏ No Ads: Free to play, no ads, no energy timers ๏ Satisfying Incremental Progression: Watch your numbers explode as every upgrade makes the next ball drop worth more. The idle loop stacks for good ๏ Deep Management Loops: Balance ores, bars, pets and upgrades to squeeze the most out of every board. It's not just a clicker; it's an incremental simulator with real decisions ๏ Offline Progress: Your bins never stop. Your idle empire keeps growing while you're away, then you come back and spend it on the next upgrade ๏ Always Something On: Daily quests, bounties, weekly tournaments, monthly bingo, Cake Party and seasonal events keep the grind fresh ๏ Community: Guilds, pet trades, sticker trading, global hiscores and an active Discord full of players comparing boards ๏ Incremental Depth: Whether you are an idle game veteran or new to clickers and incremental games, there is always another number to push What are you waiting for? Let's get ballin'! Available in 13 languages. Privacy Policy: https://ballintycoon.com/legal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Miner at 5.0 against Ballin Tycoon's 3.7. Pixel Miner also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Ballin Tycoon's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Pixel Miner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ballin Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixel Miner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Pixel Miner ships an update every 2 days, Ballin Tycoon weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Pixel Miner | Ballin Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 457 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wojciech Borczyk | Fathom |
Customer experience
Pixel Miner
Ballin Tycoon
In-app purchases
Pixel Miner
- Miner's License$4.99
Ballin Tycoon
- Bonus Pet Slot 1$4.99
- +50 Ball Cap$4.99
- 1.25X Golden Balls$4.99
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- Deluxe Bundle - High Roller Pack$19.99
- +50 Ball Cap$19.99
- Bonus Pet Slot 2$19.99
- 1.5X Golden Balls$19.99
- Bonus Pet Slot 3$49.99
- +50 Ball Cap$49.99
- 2X Golden Balls$49.99
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