Keep Mining: Incremental Game

Keep Mining is an incremental mining game with a simple setup: a pickaxe, a field of rocks and a ticking timer. Each run turns stone into ore, ore into ingots and ingots into upgrades, and each upgrade shows up on the very next run.

How it plays
Hold your finger on the field and drag it over the rocks. Your pickaxe swings on its own and hits every stone inside its mining area, so the skill is in steering it toward the richest rocks before the timer runs out. Some stones hold a few flecks of ore, while others are solid ore and pay out far more.

From ore to ingots
When a run ends, the ore you collected is smelted into ingots and you earn XP toward your next level. Levelling up opens more of the game, starting with the Forge and, later on, artifacts.

Skills that keep paying off
Ingots go into a branching skill tree with dozens of nodes. Add seconds to the timer, spawn more rocks, widen your mining area, unlock copper and iron rocks, raise the value of your ore or get a chance to break a rock instantly. True to the incremental genre, the gains compound: a run that once cleared a handful of rocks will soon sweep through the whole field.

Pickaxes from the Forge
The Forge sells pickaxes for ingots, each with more mining power, a quicker hit time or a bigger mining area. Saving up for the next one is half the fun.

Artifacts for the collection
Reach level 8 and artifact rocks can start turning up during runs. There are 14 artifacts to find, from the Rune Stones to the Warrior's Axe, and each one is Rare, Epic or Legendary. Their passive bonuses are permanent and work alongside your skills.

No internet needed
The whole mining loop runs offline, so you can play on the bus, at the cottage or anywhere the signal is weak. A dwarf miner with a big beard walks you through your first runs.

What's inside
• Short timed runs that fit into any break
• An idle mining clicker where every upgrade counts
• Gold, copper and iron ore to collect and smelt
• Dozens of skills, a Forge stocked with pickaxes and 14 artifacts
• Crunchy sound and vibration with every rock you break

If incremental games and mining games are your thing, pick up your pickaxe and keep mining.