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Drill & Collect: idle mine dig is a single player casual management game. It received negative reviews from players.

Idle Mining Tycoon | ASMR Auto Dig For Gold. Offline Gem Digging Miner Simulator

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37%
Audience ScoreBased on 2,380 reviews
gameplay44 positive mentions
monetization2.1k negative mentions

  • Engaging and addictive gameplay suitable as a time killer.
  • Relaxing and simple to understand mechanics with upgrades and automation.
  • Accurate to in-game advertisements and enjoyable for casual play.
  • Excessive and intrusive ads cause frequent game interruptions and crashes, making it nearly unplayable without paying to remove ads.
  • Serious performance issues including lagging, freezing, crashing, and overheating on various devices.
  • Repetitive gameplay with little variety after initial levels; progression becomes tedious and slow.
  • monetization
    2,146 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization of this game is heavily criticized due to an excessive frequency of intrusive, often forced ads interrupting gameplay every 30 seconds to 2 minutes, causing crashes, lag, and poor user experience. While a paid option exists to remove forced ads (~$6-$9), many still encounter ads or glitches, making the game nearly unplayable without purchase. Users feel the aggressive ad strategy is a greedy cash grab that significantly diminishes enjoyment, with ads often longer than playtime and sometimes leading to unwanted redirects.

    • “No ads is well worth the purchase!”
    • “Completely free game with no ads unless you choose to watch one.”
    • “Sweet idle game, good for passing time, no ads so far which is really good, my guess is when they eventually do add ads they should make them optional such as having to watch an ad to get money etc. Fun and simplistic and looks just like the advert for it.”
    • “Paid for ad removal, but still have ads including forced ads and ads to upgrade things, plus many ads cause the game to crash or kick you out, requiring restart.”
    • “The game is almost unplayable due to excessive forced ads every 30 to 60 seconds, many unskippable and often crashing or freezing the game, with many ads redirecting players to external sites and the Play Store.”
    • “Way too many ads, often longer than gameplay, popping up every 20 to 30 seconds including forced advertisements during gameplay, banner ads that cause lag and accidental clicks, many ads that crash or freeze the game, with the option to remove ads priced excessively high and not fully effective.”
  • stability
    189 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from severe stability issues, including frequent freezing, crashing, lagging, and glitches that significantly disrupt gameplay. These problems are often exacerbated by constant, intrusive ads, which not only cause performance drops but also lead to data loss and app closures. Despite its fun concept, the overwhelming bugs and forced advertisements make the game frustrating and often unplayable for many users.

    • “The game freezes and crashes because the bottom banner ad is constantly refreshing and looking for new ads.”
    • “If you play for 5 minutes, you're only actually playing the game for about 30 seconds because of the freezing and glitches from all the ads.”
    • “The game closes out on its own and freezes my phone to the point I can't even turn it off, then it glitches out my phone if I open any other app or even try to unlock the screen.”
  • gameplay
    181 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is generally simple, repetitive, and somewhat enjoyable with a satisfying mining and upgrade loop, but it is overwhelmingly marred by frequent, intrusive, and poorly timed ads that severely disrupt the experience, causing lag, crashes, and frustration. Many users find the constant forced advertisements ruin the fun and progression, making the game feel more like an ad platform than an engaging pastime. Despite potential in core mechanics, excessive ads and performance issues render the gameplay tedious and unenjoyable for most.

    • “I hope it gets fixed because the gameplay loop is fun and relaxing for me.”
    • “The core gameplay is fun and satisfying.”
    • “The gameplay loop is decent and compelling enough.”
    • “You can't play 10-15 seconds without an intrusive ad interrupting the gameplay.”
    • “Forced ads every 30 seconds make gameplay impossible.”
    • “The gameplay is constantly interrupted every two minutes because of forced ads which often cause the game to crash.”
  • graphics
    46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some users appreciating the colorful, simple, and cute visuals, while many others report poor performance, frequent lag, crashes, and graphical bugs even on high-end devices. A common request is for a graphic quality toggle to improve smoothness, as the current graphics often cause overheating, freezing, and degraded gameplay. Additionally, intrusive ads and performance issues severely detract from the overall visual experience.

    • “Cool concept, great graphics - unique fun ”
    • “The newer visuals look pretty nice, and I was excited to play it.”
    • “The graphics are colorful and engaging, making the mining experience visually appealing.”
    • “In top 5 worst games, it's so bad it could be used for torture bad graphics even on high end phone.”
    • “I would give negative stars if possible with every update this game gets worse the graphics are low res there aren't that many actions in the game so why does it make your phone bag freeze up completely shut down and restart when it's not constantly crashing itself eddie even causes your system ui to crash there's probably serious malware hidden in this app i played hi-rez games on unlimited frames per second that has never crashed as much as this game does in 5 minutes don't install worst app!”
    • “Lags like crazy force restarts and doesn't stop the lag i like the game but this is intolerable how could anyone get anywhere if area two is constantly lagging then ads crash the game such low grade graphics and it's literally the only game on my phone that acts up uninstalling bc it's not worth the hassle”
  • optimization
    33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from severe optimization issues, causing frequent crashes, overheating, and heavy battery drain even on newer devices. Performance is hampered by memory-heavy effects, constant ads, and poor handling on older phones, significantly detracting from the gameplay experience. Players strongly urge the developers to improve stability, reduce lag, and optimize resource usage for smoother play.

    • “I might add I have a new updated phone with 8 GB of RAM and Snapdragon processor and it runs smoothly, just kills the battery and gets really hot.”
    • “An overload of memory-hogging sprites severely impacts performance, making the game nearly unplayable due to significant slowdowns.”
    • “I don't think the devs have older phones in mind when developing, which is understandable, but optimization for older phones would be great.”
    • “Performance is utterly abysmal and the devs should go back to school—no excuses for performance so bad on today's hardware.”
    • “While it is fun, holy moly this game is not optimized at all. Call of Duty runs better than this, and say bye to your battery life as well. After 35 minutes of playing, I dropped over 40 percent battery. Keep in mind my phone is brand new. The ads are unbearable every click, and until it runs better without lagging and crashing constantly during digging, I'll play something else.”
    • “To start off, I loved the idea and concept of this game; however, for me, the performance was by far the worst for a mobile game I've played so far this year. The game periodically crashes, even the ads run horribly, and having ads literally every minute along with such poor gameplay performance completely ruins the fun for me.”
  • grinding
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is often described as tedious, slow-paced, and unrewarding, with frequent interruptions from ads and slow movement mechanics negatively impacting the experience. While some automation features exist, the overall grind feels costly and monotonous, diminishing enjoyment and making progression frustrating.

    • “The developers really miss a trick in not including any global achievements that track across the many areas and also levelling the perks is tedious and costly.”
    • “Game itself is very tedious and unrewarding for what it is.”
    • “The fun advertised game in the movies, advertising this game is nothing like the actual grindy slog of game mechanics that is in this awful, ad filled, pay to win trash.”
  • music
    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is often interrupted or replaced by ads, preventing players from enjoying their own background music and causing frustration. Additionally, there is no option to customize or mute in-game music separately, which, combined with poor performance, detracts from the overall experience.

    • “The ad should not pause because I would rather listen to good music over annoying sounds.”
    • “But there should be no reason that I cannot listen to my music while an ad is playing.”
    • “I also wish that when you use the special mining drill it doesn't play the music when you have all sound off.”
    • “No background music, poor performance on a new phone, limited mechanics, repetitive gameplay.”
    • “Kept me entertained but the constant forced ads keep interrupting the game and even stop my background music, causing me to leave the game to turn it back on.”
  • humor
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is appreciated for its clever ideas and funny puns, adding a lighthearted touch. However, frequent ads and slow customer support responses sometimes undermine the comedic tone for players. Overall, the humor is enjoyed but occasionally overshadowed by technical and ad-related frustrations.

    • “Also, the superworker is hilarious lmao, love the idea”
    • “Yeah, funny joke.”
    • “ hilarious”
  • story
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story aspect is generally seen as weak or lacking, with no compelling narrative to engage players. Some users appreciate the flexible quest and coin systems but criticize certain quests as unfair or impossible. Overall, the game fails to provide an engaging plot or meaningful storytelling elements.

    • “I also really like the quests and coins systems, since if you don't want to do the quests you don't have to, and the coins can get you the ad skip things.”
    • “I also really like the quests and coins systems, since if you don't want to do the quests you don't have to, and the coins can get you the ad skip things.”
    • “Another of the quests are bogus and impossible unless you unlock 2 areas for 1 token.”
    • “Graphics are dark and uninspired, sound design is flat with no energy or voice work, and there’s no real story to drive engagement.”
    • “I downloaded it so I can collect coins for another app but I can't even do that. Well, onto the next game on the list of boring mission.”
  • emotional
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users express strong negative emotions due to intrusive ads and accidental in-app purchases, highlighting frustration and distress over financial consequences that affect their daily lives. The emotional experience is marked by disappointment and feeling unsupported.

  • replayability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Replayability opinions are mixed: some users find little to no replay value and forgettable content, while others appreciate the smooth performance, ad-free experience, and regular updates that enhance replay potential.

    • “Game runs smoothly, one of the few games I purchased ad-free, with good replay value and updates.”
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Drill & Collect: idle mine dig is a casual management game.

Drill & Collect: idle mine dig is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

On average players spend around 1 hours playing Drill & Collect: idle mine dig.

Drill & Collect: idle mine dig was developed by Apps Mobile Games.

Drill & Collect: idle mine dig has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked Drill & Collect: idle mine dig for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Drill & Collect: idle mine dig is a single player game.

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