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Hold The Mine

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89%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
89% User Score Based on 143 reviews

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About Hold The Mine

Hold The Mine is a single player tactical management game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Hookaria Games and was released on February 17, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.

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89%Audience ScoreBased on 143 reviews
gameplay14 positive mentions
grinding5 negative mentions
  • Addictive and fun gameplay loop combining mining and tower defense mechanics with strategic depth and variety in heroes and builds.
  • Cute and appealing art style with satisfying animations and atmospheric music, enhancing the cozy and enjoyable experience.
  • Active and responsive developer continuously improving the game with frequent updates, balancing, new content, and roadmap plans for major features.
  • Currently limited content and meta-progression, leading to repetitiveness and reduced long-term replayability in early access state.
  • Some balance and difficulty curve issues, including slow or grindy progression and certain overpowered or underpowered heroes and enemies.
  • Occasional performance issues such as lag in late rounds and missing quality-of-life features like save/load or faster mining controls.

  • gameplay

    41 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    34% positive mentions, 59% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The gameplay features an addictive and satisfying core loop centered on resource gathering and defense, blending mining with roguelite and tower defense elements. While the mechanics are straightforward with limited depth and progression currently, the game offers replayability through varied daily modifiers and strategic upgrades, though some balance issues and a reliance on RNG affect variety. Overall, it provides a fun, well-executed experience with potential for future expansion and refinement.

    • “The gameplay loop is satisfying, progression rewarding, it's easy to do "just one more run."”
    • “Gameplay is simple, split between an addictive resource gathering phase and a tense auto-battler/defense phase.”
    • “It has such a flawless coupling of tower defense gameplay and run randomization variances that it keeps it feeling fresh every time I restart.”
    • “Very little depth to mechanics, upgrades, or relics.”
    • “Limited progression and more just understanding the mechanics.”
    • “My main issue with the game before recent updates was that the gameplay became too repetitive after a couple of runs and it lacked progression or meta-progression.”

  • graphics

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    42% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's graphics feature a charming and cute art style that is both stylish and engaging, with unique, personalized animations that enhance the gameplay experience. Overall, the appealing cartoonish visuals contribute significantly to the game's fun and replayability.

    • “The art style is cute and stylish, and the attack animation for each dwarven warrior feels really personal and unique (the apostle dwarf does a sort of prayer-hands thing, which looks sick).”
    • “Also, the graphics are really charming, the autobattles are engaging and become increasingly intense, and the game is overall a lot of fun.”
    • “Cute game with a very nice graphic style and music.”

  • replayability

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 11% neutral mentions, 22% negative mentions

    The game offers good replayability with varied rounds, fun endless mode, and features like weather and meta progression to enhance depth. However, replay value may diminish once most content is unlocked, though the developer is actively working to improve it. Overall, it remains enjoyable and engaging for players who appreciate diverse characters and modifiers.

    • “If you want a good game with a lot of characters, powerups, modifiers, replayability... it's perfect for you!”
    • “Endless mode is definitely fun to play with, so the replayability is great.”
    • “It also increases replayability, since every round is slightly different.”
    • “I do think I've seen most of its content by now and I'm losing interest a bit, so the replayability isn't infinite.”
    • “There isn't a lot of replayability.”

  • grinding

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is highly polished and rewarding, making it enjoyable rather than tedious despite being intense. While it doesn't involve excessive long-term grinding or complex ascensions, players find it a fun way to pass time without feeling repetitive.

    • “Fun concept but insanely grindy.”
    • “It immediately takes me back to the feeling I got when I first played the game and said, 'this is all the content without grinding out the same exact cycle for hours.'”
    • “For me, it's primarily a nice way to pass the time when I'm stuck doing tedious work.”

  • story

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The story aspect is minimal to non-existent, with very little narrative or quest variety, and players lack clear information about completed quests. Overall, the game offers limited storytelling and exploration, resulting in a repetitive experience.

    • “My two minor suggestions for the dev: 1) the run summary screen says the number of quests completed, but not which ones, and the quest screen from the main menu doesn't show any!”
    • “You have to figure it out on your own, the story is less than a sentence.”
    • “You have to figure it out on your own; the story is less than a sentence.”
    • “There is no story, no variance in gameplay, no exploration, and hardly a difference in the mobs.”
    • “Pretty much cleaned out all quests that are available (early access).”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is consistently praised for being fun, energetic, and well-crafted, complementing the unique artwork and overall enjoyable atmosphere.

    • “Superb fun - good soundtrack and nice resource management!”
    • “Cute game with very nice graphic style and music.”
    • “Music is fun and the artwork is unique.”

  • optimization

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The game generally performs well but requires further optimization and balancing for late rounds (25+), where maintaining good performance is crucial to handle intense enemy hordes. Despite this, the current content is enjoyable, especially for players who enjoy optimizing their builds.

    • “Good performance is really important in the later rounds to avoid being overwhelmed by hordes of enemies or flying skull heads that require targeted spells.”
    • “There is more than enough enjoyable content already, and I can definitely recommend this game to everyone who likes to tinker with optimal builds.”
    • “The game definitely needs some more balancing and performance upgrades for the very late rounds 25+.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game occasionally experiences brief freezes in its logic, lasting up to 10 seconds, though this issue does not affect the frame rate.

    • “Sometimes game logic (not fps) freezes for some time, up to 10 seconds.”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users recognize the game's strong potential early on, as highlighted by an engaging playtest experience promoted through Facebook ads, suggesting effective monetization strategies that attract initial interest.

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Play Times

9h Median play time
8h Average play time
5-10h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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Hold The Mine is a tactical management game with fantasy theme. Common tags for Hold The Mine include turn-based, roguelite, exploration, tower defense, cartoon and others.

Hold The Mine is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 8 hours playing Hold The Mine.

Hold The Mine was released on February 17, 2026.

Hold The Mine was developed by Hookaria Games.

Hold The Mine has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Hold The Mine for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

Hold The Mine is a single player game with local co-op support.

Similar games include 9 Kings, Super Fantasy Kingdom, Repel the Rifts, He is Coming, Monsters are Coming! and others.