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Cold Hours · Published by Cold Hours
Very Positive — 81% positive (1,238 reviews) · 18 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
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Indie, Simulation, Free To Play, Casual · 2023 · More free games
Dive into Idle Cave Miner, an indie simulation where you craft items, mine gems, and expand your team. Experience the thrill of traveling to deeper mines as you build your strength and uncover hidden dangers below.
About this game
IDLE CAVE MINER FEATURES:
Smelt, Craft, and Refine Ores:
- Craft cool new Items to mine deeper than ever and find new rare ores and gems!
- Upgrade your forges to increase their speed and efficiency when smelting rare ores or refining beautiful gems!
- Use the items you crafted to permanently boost the stats of your team of miners!
Build your own team of Miners:
- Unlock cool and unique new miners to mine for you and help you progress deep within the mines!
- Upgrade your miners with items you crafted to take them to the next level of mining efficiency!
- Idle away as your miners work for you, giving you profits you've never seen before!
Multiple Mines:
- The mine upgrades with you, the further down you go, the more the mine shifts to accommodate new unique and fun environments!
- Unique mines to explore, each with their own resources for you to obtain, whether those are rare ores to be smelted or unique gems to be refined!
- Farm these mines to get resources to become stronger than ever and progress in the main mine, giving you access to new and interesting new ores and gems!
Endless upgrades:
- Upgrade everything about your favorite miners, building an increasingly strong team to progress further than you've gone before!
- Prestige to receive powerful rewards that allow you to go deeper than ever into the unknown depths of the mines!
- Gather permanent upgrades that remain with you when you prestige, allowing you to breeze through what was previously impossible!
Lots of missions and achievements:
- Complete fun achievements to unlock cool rewards!
- Participate in daily, weekly and monthly missions that give you increased rewards based on their difficulty level!
- Check your game's stats at any moment to view your overall progress and other fun statistics!
Other cool features:
- Cloud Saves!
- Online Leaderboards!
- Play Offline!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS *: Windows 7 or higher
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Storage: 800 MB available space
Supported Languages
English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Portuguese - Portugal*, Japanese*, Korean*, Simplified Chinese*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Idle Cave Miner 2 - Coming Soon!
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43688931/db5c735f7fa2813dc18dc5ae2e25e20f29b431f0.png Are you ready for this new chapter? I've been working on Idle Cave Miner for over 4 years now, it started as a hobby project that I worked on when I had some free time. I never expected much of it, but 4 years and 1.5 Million downloads later, it has become my full-time job, which still doesn't feel real to me. When I first made ICM, I had no idea how a game should flow, what made a good idle game, what elements players like, how to design progression, and many other things. These past years have been a big learning experience, and I now have the opportunity to put everything I learned into something new. Thank you for being with me on this journey, I couldn't ask for a better community! With that said, it's with great pleasure that I announce Idle Cave Miner 2, coming soon to Steam! Wishlist now to be notified when it releases: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3340830/Idle_Cave_Miner_2/ What's new on Idle Cave Miner 2: Idle Cave Miner 2 takes everything you loved about the first game and makes it better than ever with a fresh new look, completely reworked progression, an updated roster of miners, pets, a market, global leaderboards and so much more! New worlds have been added, including a Combat World, where you'll be able to fight monsters and defeat bosses to acquire unique items. How much will it cost? Idle Cave Miner 2 will be Free to Play. When does it release? The is no estimate yet, when I have one, I will make an announcement. Follow my socials to be up-to-date in any news: X (former Twitter): https://x.com/coldhoursdev YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coldhoursdev Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdleCaveMiner/ Discord: https://discord.gg/idle-cave-miner-1012009692370829482 What's next? The game will soon enter alpha testing phase with a very small amount of players to test all the new features, and get some early feedback on all the new changes. Thank you for making all of this pos...Read full article on Community Announcements (Spongebob)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 1.11.2
Changes: Lowered relic costs for 'Bird Coins', 'Offline Rewards', and 'Starting Floor' Gem sorting will now check if it's sorted before changing sort type When visiting a floor, you now get offline rewards from that floor Improved miners movement speed display Improved miners mining speed display Fixes: Completion percentage no longer requires upgrades to be fully completed You're no longer able to grade a destroyed gemRead full article on Community Announcements (Spongebob)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 1.11.1
Changes: Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic Relics now count towards game completion Fixes: Fixed Japanese currency displayRead full article on Community Announcements (Spongebob)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 1.11.0
New Features: Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems Added 7 abyssal gems Added abyssal gem grading Added 3 abyssal upgrades Added a new relic Changes: Forge timer is now monospaced (won't jump around anymore) Reduced costs on most relics Increased base chance for a special shot in the abyss (5% >> 10%) Increased max level of special shot upgrade (25 >> 30) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (14% >> 15%) Added a new bundle for the abyss if you don't own bonus shards Updated Leon's skin cost (500 Gems >> 2500 Singularities of Ignition) Added currency parsing for 10 more countries Fixes: Abyss now displays damage dealt by the shots Abyss now displays critical damage dealt Fixed a bug which caused quests to reroll when claiming the first oneRead full article on Community Announcements (Spongebob)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 1.10.1
Changes: Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence (10% >> 12%) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (12% >> 14%) Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence (12% >> 14%) Fixes: Fixed an issue which would cause the coal world tutorial to keep appearing Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to block the screen on the Chinese version Fixed an issue that caused the coal world tutorial to display incorrectly on the Japanese version Disabled automatic cloud restore (Again...)Read full article on Community Announcements (Spongebob)
