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地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション vs Minimum Effort

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション

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山ひとつ、指一本。——買い切り、広告なし、追加課金なし。 『地脈(UNDERVEIN)』は、山の垂直断面を掘り進む鉱山経営シミュレーションです。 坑道を計画し、坑夫を配置し、鉱石を坑口まで運び出す。地下水は最も深い切羽に集まり、支保のない天盤はある日突然落ちる。実在の鉱山工学——自立時間、透水率、揚程——に基づいた物理の上で、あなたは契約期限までにノルマを果たさなければなりません。 ・7つの山、それぞれ違う敵  水没する山、断層だらけの山、酷暑の山。山ごとに戦い方が変わります。 ・鉱区は買うもの  最初に与えられる区画はすぐに尽きます。試錐で確かめ、地図で選び、次の鉱脈へ。 ・数字がすべてを語る  派手な演出はありません。産出量、湧水量、崩落リスク——盤面の数字を読み、判断するゲームです。 広告なし。追加課金なし。買い切り一回のみ。 トラッキングも利用状況の収集も行いません。あなたの操業はあなたの端末に留まります。

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Minimum Effort

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You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job. Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.

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地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション4 screens
Minimum Effort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Minimum Effort at Free against 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション's $1.99. 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Minimum Effort is free to download; 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション costs $1.99 up front. Minimum Effort sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション ships an update every 11 days, Minimum Effort every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション versus Minimum Effort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーションMinimum Effort
Price$1.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperShuntaro ShimadaLevin David Schwab

In-app purchases

None

地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Minimum Effort

One-time2
  • Home Office Pack$3.99
  • Career Pack$3.99

Questions

Is 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション free?
地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minimum Effort free?
Minimum Effort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション or Minimum Effort have ads?
Minimum Effort shows ads; 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション does not.
Which is updated more often, 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション or Minimum Effort?
地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション ships an update every 11 days, and Minimum Effort every 3 weeks. Most recently, 地脈 Undervein 鉱山経営シミュレーション was updated on October 29, 2026 and Minimum Effort on October 29, 2026.

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