Dig Too Deep vs Idle Space Mining
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dig Too Deep
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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Dig through the earth one pixel at a time. Upgrade your equipment, fill your pocket, and prestige to dig even deeper. Start with a simple hammer and work your way through 12 equipment tiers across 6 unique locations — from Earth to the Moon, Mars, Europa, the Sun, and beyond. Collect rare treasures, complete challenges, build your base, and ascend to unlock powerful Star Dust bonuses. Mine while you're away — your miner never stops. Come back to a full pocket and keep pushing deeper.
Idle Space Mining
Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.
- Incremental mining empire building
- Strategic doctrine choices
- Prestige system with Dark Matter
- Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
- Offline earnings
- Challenging game modes
- Comet catching events
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dig Too Deep at none against Idle Space Mining's shown. Dig Too Deep also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Idle Space Mining's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dig Too Deep against 5.0 for Idle Space Mining. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Dig Too Deep ships an update every 2 days, Idle Space Mining weekly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Dig Too Deep | Idle Space Mining |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| 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 | 55 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wojciech Borczyk | ISAAC MICHAEL FRETT |
In-app purchases
Dig Too Deep
No in-app purchases
Idle Space Mining
No in-app purchases
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