Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 03:19 pm
Ground Driller – Entertainment Game Review
Ground Driller is a Entertainment/Simulation/Casual game from Fevergames inc., first launched in 22nd January 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 497+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Ground Driller Stand Out
Mine diverse gems and minerals with a powerful excavator and cute miners.
Rarest gems are found only in the deepest part of the earth so dig as deep as possible.
- No control required. Digging and mining are done automatically!
- Uranium, nickel, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals can be collected.
- You must upgrade your excavator to get deep into the earth.
- Capable miners can mine more minerals than others.
- There are various surprise events!
- You can earn Coins even while you're offline.
- New content has been added, including mining research, fishing, and mini-games.
- Achievement & Leaderboard supported.
- This is an offline game that does not require Data or WiFi connection.
- Supports English.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Ground Driller is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Ground Driller is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Ground Driller on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Unique game with a nice flow. We enjoyed it thoroughly.
This game is outstanding. No adds unless you want to get ahead. Games very addictive and customizing your drill and your miners are top notch. Id say best mining game in the App Store.
DO NOT GET! GET DIG IT! ITS WAY BETTER.
All is well with the new update. If you like Freemium games, this is a good one. The Leaderboard is still no good, but everything else seems fine. As a tiny improvement, we would make Diamonds purchasable with Coins. (23 Miner Slots would be fun).
Please dont release meaningless useless updates release updates with new excavator parts and a new miner that can be purchased with gold money, pleassseee.
This is a great app, its a good time waster but we wish you didnt have to tap every time to upgrade miners and Other things maybe bring in a tap and hold type of system Edit: we cant seem to watch any ads anymore and Im not sure why. Could it possibly be a bug.
We like this game so much but we found a bug. It was where bad news was good news on the Description.
Was going to like 2 starts until recent update. The adjustments made to offline helped. Ill keep playing to see what updates add to it. One thing though is we just spent 300 diamonds on the automatic chest opening for 24 hours. While it sounds cool its just not working well. As many chests that are spawned it opens them so slowly. We dont recommend buying it at all. We would honestly like a refund on the diamonds we spent for it but Im not going to lose any sleep over it. State of the game is pretty solid we would say at the moment.
They need to cut back on how many ads you get quiet literally every 1-2 minutes we have to watch an ad to get out of a dangerous gas zone and if you dont want to spend money on a game you have to 3 ads to clear it then a few minutes later another pops up if there wasnt such frequent things you need to watch ads to get by then would be 5*.
Literally cannot do anything in the game without watching an ad or spending money. Oh no. Your drill slowed down! Spend money or watch 3 ads to fix it. 30 seconds later… Ah no blah blah blah. Spend money or watch an ad. 30 seconds, oh no! Spend money or.
The game is fun in itself. However a lot of obstacles in the game require watching an add. But then we get all these error messages that the advertisement server is not available. This is soooo annoying. Please fix.
The game had extremely slow progression, then they added a way to exchange certain materials for higher grade which allowed you to finally progress. For example, 10k uranium turned into 1k silver. Most recent update made it 700k uranium for 1k silver. Absolutely ridiculous. Every single thing about this app is engineered to make you watch ads and spend $ to make even the slightest bit of progression. Do not download.
1 week of playing lost just like that no help nothing crappy game and support they dont care.
You can honestly spend 50% of your time watching video ads.
We like playing this game. Dont get us wrong it is decent. But we do feel like it could be better. This is what we mean…. – When offline, we accumulate coins, but magically our ore storage never increases? Seems strange considering its an idle style game. Not sure why this is. – Ads. We like that we can choose to do ads when we want to do them. But we feel like sometimes its almost forced upon you because every minute or so Ill get a 10m debuff that we can clear if we watch an ad. This is great and all, but we dont want to watch a 30 second ad every minute or every other minute. We feel like this could be decreased. – When watching an ad to increase our mining speed and such, we only get 10 mins of increased productivity. Competitive apps provide hours of increased production for one ad. If these things would get a nerf so to speak, this would easily be a 5 star game. Thanks for your time.
The fishing and mini games maybe the coolest thing ever but the mining research is a bit too complicated even Im not sure what to do anymore maybe improve it back to the way it was or keep it and put some of the original work improvements into so its easy please we just love the game so much hope you guys do lots of fun and great things you guys are awesome cant wait to see what you think of next.
Your amounts of coins and all the stuff at the top is blocked because of the screen shape. Making the game unplayable.
As soon as we played we said we will never delete this ADDICTING GAME.
Im enjoying ourselves playing this game.
We love how in this game the ads are optional and the concept is very entertaining for somebody like us that has ADD.
We like how you added the drill and we like a lot of the people thats what makes it a great kid and Actually just started playing and we already have lots of money thank you for this great great great great great game make more games like this we love games.
Im impressed with the game. We like the whole objective. These are the type of games we love playing. If there was any change to he made, it would be getting sent to the offer thing right away. When we spam click something and then we dont have enough, we prefer it doesnt take us directly to the offer thing. It should be a do you want to go to the store thing instead. But other than that, Im really enjoying he game.
Can you add more gems that would make it better.
Why are inconvenience like water and mining events so common we either sit in game for 4.5 hours or watch 3 ads at least lets mining events work when not in the app or get rid of the rebuff when the occur it just lies down the game play which is already minuscule.
We were just wondering if u could add like where u can have one or more citys u could say with there own drill.
While the game looks good and the idea is quite solid, the executions in unfortunately lacking. The very nature of such games is long lasting periods of inactivity and so they are meant to be visited a couple of times a day to make a few upgrades and check on progress. Here the dev. Team has made a strange choice to limit acquisition of game-progressing resources as well as digging to time spent directly in game. This means that unless the game is on your screen virtually no progress is being made, except for money being gathered (which in m experience is of marginal importance). In our opinion, if the dev. Team insists on limiting progression to time spent in game, there should still be some resource gathering and digging going on while the game is off.
This game is fun but we would like there to be an offline bonus.
Due to the font and color choices, it is very hard to read,.
Fun game, a slight different aspect of the level upgrading. We did enjoy it until we realized when come upon a barrier which takes 5-6hrs to break through. Youre first thought is sure Ill watch 3 ads to speed up the process, then as soon as you pass the barrier another barrier comes up. No big deal, Ill come back in a few hours and but to your surprise the clock hasnt moved a second. This is the first upgrading game Ive come across where offline time does not account for anything. If you expect people to play your game for 5-6hr increments you are out of your mind. We dont mind watching ads here and there but when you design a game where people can not progress without paying for gems or watching an ad seems ridiculous. Oh forgot to mention its the same 1 ad over and over and over and over and over.
You cannot play this game reasonably without watching multiple ads every few minutes. Im not talking for simple buffs, but ads just to progress. Its a charming game that loses its appeal after about 45 min when the ads for everything kick in. Hit a layer of water? Watch an ad. Hit a diamond layer? Watch 3 ads to advance (or wait 8 hours). Get bad news? Watch an ad to remove it or wait 10 min because your drill shutdown completely. Also the way gold is spent feels very linear and not imaginative. Again, charming game, cute graphics, but gameplay fails heavily.
Cool game and all, but the ads are too much. Having to watch 3+ ads every two minutes because Im digging so fast. It has become overwhelming and boring. Thats why we dont play your game as much as we could.
All you do is upgrade parts slowly, watch ads, and watch more ads. Not even a good idle game.
Game concept is pretty cool but you wont be seeing much of it because you need to watch ads to do about everything to move up in the down. Not so good, uninstalled.
The game is cool, but if you say that is idle it must be idle!!! All the minerals can be collected ONLY when in game!!! We reached a level that we need to collect 2Milion of a mineral and we collect Only 1 piece of that mineral every second…. Do you think we will ever keep our phone with your app open for days??? Fix asap or the game will die after one or two days of gameplay.
Or watch ads all day kids, its boring and just a fancy knock off of another horrible game idle miner, probably the developers are friends.
This game is amazing but there is so much tapping and we wish there was more to it like another digging site or something maybe in a new update but over all it is really really cool.
The game is visually cool, runs smooth. This thing is that there is no real point to the game other than to watch advertisements. It is obviously what the team behind the game was after. Its a good time waster other than that. On the plus side the advertisements are not super long so we dont mind watching them.
The game is really fun but can you let the drill function offline? Please do.
We lik everything so far we jus wish we could upgrade our drill more and could make money faster.
We hade this game preordered for the last month and it was worth the wait beat idle game ever.
We were about to comment about the notch issue but thanks.
5 stars great game thanks for fix.
The game itself is fun, but we wish that the boosts you get for watching videos would last longer than 10 minutes. Most games are 2-4 hours. Also we wish that while you were offline you still collected the minerals instead of gold.
It was great fun to play but after a while, somewhere between 1000-2000, or at least once you hit the 6th upgrade for your excavation parts. Basically you need manganese and lead but they are both so rare it would take days (and we mean in game since it wont run in background) to get 2M of those, also you hit Gs for money and everything costs that but you still make millions. We didnt bolt ahead or anything, just eventually you dont get enough of the resource you need or things dont pay enough in return. We left it going for tons of time throughout the day And overnight we let it run only to get barely 500-600k of the lesser of the two resources/2M… It turns into a sit and wait game like idle games but it cant be left idle it has to be open.
Need to move where money is on screen cant tell how much money we have on iPhone XS Max besides that great game.
The fun stopped for us with the 50g miner and the 2 million manganese and lead. Sorry but we wont be continuing, your diamonds cost too much.
We have really enjoyed this game so far. We like that progress only occurs when the game is open. We dont like it when it does progress as you could upgrade a little bit, wait a day and finish the game with the large amount of resources and crap. Great idle game.
Fun game to play and also a good way to cut time.
This games amazing in every way if you ask us, these people complaining about the ads and whatnot is kind of sad, we mean theyre 30sec ads and THEY ARE OPTIONAL and they help tremendously if you ask us, would you rather wait the 5 hours it takes to dig one of the Excavation lvls or watch 2 30sec ads and it be over in a snap? This is amazing we would love to see maybe a discord for this server from the devs and definitely some end game content.
We like having a game to help pass the time while traveling or waiting for things. We think it a great game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.0
- Size: 233.52 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Fevergames inc.
Last updated: 28th August 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Fevergames inc.