Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 07:49 pm
Idle Planet Miner – Roleplaying Game Review
Idle Planet Miner is a Roleplaying/Simulation game from Tech Tree Games LLC, first launched in 23rd January 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,652+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Planet Miner Stand Out
Ever wanted to run your own space mining company? Build your empire from the ground up in this consistently updated idle mining game! Even compete against other miners
IDLE PLANET MINER FEATURES
Idle Gameplay
● Check how much your galaxy evolved while idle
● Upgrade mining planets to increase your ore capacities
● Turn that ore into more valuable items by smelting or crafting it
● Tap to smash asteroids and earn rare ore!
● Mine: Earn coins and hire managers to help your mining company
Incremental Upgrades
● Create an Empire Across the stars!
● Hire managers to improve your output!
● Evolve your digging strategy! Research special projects to improve your output!
Upgrade Your Mining Ship
● Play the Market: respond to supply & demand across the galaxy to maximize profits!
● Terraform outlying planets to improve their output
● Rewards to permanently upgrade your mining ship are everywhere!
Idle Mining
● Earn ore and coins when you're not playing
● Quests- complete quests to earn premium rewards
● Compete – in live multiplayer tournaments against other real players every week
Idle Planet Miner is the perfect incremental clicker / idle game for fans of endless fun. Idle the day away digging for ore, rare metals, coins, and more! Dig deep and have fun.
Idle Planet Miner – Dig your way through the stars!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Planet Miner is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
v2.6.30
- Various background fixes
Download & Availability
Idle Planet Miner is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Planet Miner 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:
What a grand time we recommend playing forever and never stopping.
We thought this was going to be a 30 minute distraction for our ADHD but it turns out that its a well made and quite enjoyable game. It even has an official discord with people talking about strategies and general tips. We didnt see any intrusive ads either. The only ads that we encountered were optional ones that you can watch for bonus rewards. This is the only review Ive ever written, which should speak to the quality of this game.
Low pressure clicking to build an empire. Of course you pay $10! To get rid of ads but you get other rewards also. And of course there are things you could buy. Why the game is free. We dont hate it for that, prices for stuff a bit more than desirable. And be very aware when spending that some items are not permanent when moving to new galaxy. We got bit by that detail.
Just deleted after 3 months. The game mechanics and graphics and required thinking are all top-notch. Our only complaint is that the number of 2-minute ads has increased. Advancement is slooow without ads. They boost a days grinding about 50x. Usually the ads are a short loop playing over and over and over. 30-second ads? OK. Two minutes? Thats a lot of our life youre stealing away now. (And a few of them are NSFW ads, so kids: lets be careful out there.).
When you close the game, mining speeds are significantly reduced. You have to keep the game open to grow the planets. We paid for Ad removal, but we cannot continue this game unless they change this point.
This game really helps with our ADHD, and mixed with our Spotify playlist, we get a perfect sense of relaxation from our work.
Besides personal requests below, this game is great! Easy to learn, easy to understand, great to let run and come back to at lunch for work and after work! We enjoy it better than other idle games ive played in the past! Personally, we recommend two things. 1. Instead of percentage, we would change it to max capacity, then it auto-sells the rest that way you can easily reach specific goals without over or under selling 2. We consider it a "Bug" But when the game is running in the background, it doesnt consider the out-of-app timer, so if its in the background fir 3 hours, it diesnt consider that time.
Saw the ad on YouTube. Simple, straightforward game. We like it.
Super fun and easy to understand, the progression is easy to catch on too and there is a lot to it, great way to get addicted to mobile apps.
This game is insanely fun, but can get boring starts getting really grinding at certain point and you really only open it one time a day instead of two times a day to make sure that your stuff is working and the collect on the materials that you have it just sometimes we forget about it and its just not really that big of presence on our phone. We do appreciate the new ads though. Havent got that many ads. Its been selected ads if you want extra stuff, you can purchase it or watch it. But other than that, its a good good game.
Pero es un juego de esos q tienes que esperar bastante tiempo para conseguir las cosas por ejemplo los reclutas son casi imposible de conseguir porque piden demasiado.
Even and we enjoyed this even though we hate theses games but could be a little better we feel like we make slightly slower progress in the game than we should some upgrades are not necessary and you can skip 1 planet every time because you be better off the start doing this.
This game progresses very, very slowly but it is fun and rewarding. We like that the ads are optional and offer good bonuses for watching. Our only qualm is that some of the ads are for inappropriate sites that wouldnt be good for kids to see. The in-game competitions are also entertaining and competitive.
The Game is overall good, very pricey IMO for something that you may not play long term. Biggest complaints the price. More so for others to know. If pricing was chopped in half, we wouldnt have mentioned it. Overall the games fun, interesting , its one of the better games out here for sure.
We would play this game but its a very long grind style game and Im already committed 100% to the Tower by this same Developer! And we dont think we have enough in us to start up on another game that takes years of commitment but as of right now Im gonna pick it up and play it here and there! Thanks everyone! Its honestly a fun game regardless of the grind style.
Great game, we dont know what it is but its addictive.
Wasnt sure this would be good but turns out a fun one.
Hey first and foremost, great game, play it all the time. Just a feature request though, can you keep auto sell active for anything from the previous galaxy? It would be a big quality of life improvement overall.
Found this game from an ad on youtube, absolutely addicted to the game. Best part is while going through the settings we found out the creator also made the tower, which is also another amazing game.
A bit repetitive but still enjoyable. Lots of ways to constantly improve your playthrough. Tournaments against other players, 24 hour challenges, permanent ship upgrades, permanent resource sale increases. Tournaments are completely busted unfortunately. Rewards for first place in bottom level league is better than 20th place in the hardest league. You can start a tournament and then just not play, and get bumped down to a lower league and crush everyone. Lowest league almost always has the first place with twenty times the second players score. The most recent tournament we were first place the entire time, until two hours left. We were beating the second place guy by a factor of ten. Came back to the game with one hour left and he has four times our score. In an hour. Should be some kind of cap on this. Its like LeBron James dropping down to elementary school basketball and everyone being cool with it.
Interesting game. Slowly build up resources and capabilities. The is no need to watch videos if you dont want to.
Awesome and fun game to play but our main complaint and reason for 3 stars and the idle part is only 2 hours. Not sure if most people are in their phone all day but seems like it should more like a 6 to 8 hour idle time to allow a better game experience.
If youre looking to try and get built up early, without spending a dime, this isnt the game. If youre looking for a game to spend maybe 10 minutes on every couple hours and not make very much progress, this is the game you might enjoy. All upgrades are expensive, hitting another manager is expensive, just about everything is expensive without spending real life money. 3 stars because its a relaxed game. Very casual and simple. Not 5 stars because of how expensive everything is with in game currency. And the amount of time it will take make a whole lot of progress, without spending real money, is a bit ludicrous.
Fine game but the main gameplay has portions where you must watch an ad to utilize it. There is a investable research option that states it can boost planet production and we invested a good amount of time to get it. Turns out, to use that boost we have to watch an ad. There was no indication of this prior to investing in it. Lame game.
The game mechanic is interesting but the content seems lacking. Im less than a week into playing but it seems a bit simple as far as what you can do. After the core upgrades most further upgrades are just rate and chance increases. Boring we do imagine the game has a ton of potential though. Our main issue is that we dont think the game calculates things properly when idle. For example when we set our game to auto sell copper right now it say it should produce $276 per second. That should translate to $993,600 per hour. When we logged back in after 65 minutes we had accumulated less than $400,000. The rate of selling is too fast for copper bar smelting, that that didnt reduce our production. It seems there is something incorrect in the game math when logged out. We also noticed on our second day playing that when copper should have been accumulating faster than our shelter could have consumed it, we would log back in and no copper would have accumulated. To optimize gameplay for this sort of game, calculations need to pan out properly. This is a serious flaw.
This game has so much potential and is very fun. We have played it for months now and recently decided we wanna migrate our game over to our iPad for the bigger screen experience when we get home. It flat out doesnt work at all! This to us makes us not wanna play the game anymore. We live in a world with seem less cross connect between devices. This is unacceptable in our opinion. Other than that the game is very fun. But this makes us not wanna play the game. Please fix your cloud save feature.
Exactly like the ads for it. Chill.
But its sooo good. Youll spend some $$ too.
Very fun production chain game. Easy to get learn. Rewards carry over to next game. Sense of achievement builds with each play through. The only game on our phone because of the rewarding game play. Fun.
Recommended to us by our cousin at thanksgiving, already addicted. Little to no ads so far and suprisingly engaging gameplay.
Very good game to play if ur bored but it does take a while to grind for the materials.
We love it. No glitches. Just simple intuitive sleek fun.
Games fun but the adds have issues only one or two adds closed after watching the other adds u have to close the hole game and get no credit for watching even when it says u can now click the close x or claim cant click it but is fun cant get into tournaments unless ur right there within 1 to maybe 33 minutes then wait another five days plus but is fun.
Decent game but idle accumulation of resources does not seem to work reliably at the moment.
Great game so far. New will update review in a bit.
We feel like this could be a console game you pay for and play in your free time. We were upset at our first restart (sell universe) but by then we were already addicted to the freedoms the game was giving us that we knew it would get better if we stuck with it. Good game thanks.
We couldnt restore our save or our purchases from our iPad to our iPhone, they both have the same iCloud and same GameCenter login but for some reason it wont allow us to pick up where we left off on our phone, we really do enjoy the game just wish this could be fixed, other than that we woulda gave it 5 stars.
Its a good game that is pay to advance but only if you want to. You can easily not put any money in and still succeed ! A lot of fun.
The ads arent in your face but when you try to watch a ad for a boost the ad is five minutes long thats kinda crazy and some arent skip able why repeat the same ad over n over for such a little boost.
The game is great but its ad based. We would play more but it isnt worth having to sit through 2 minute ads that you have to hit the tiny x 8 times.
Once the novelty wears off, its endless menus and timers. Routes, refineries, and managers are neat ideas but buried under fiddly micromanagement and paywalled speed-ups.
If you like space or anything like that you WILL love this game its so peak.
This game is pretty awesome. Really nice game and not a lot of ads which we absolutely love.
Its great and fun just like Robloxs but better.
Great game, but we want to play forward on our iPad not the iphone. Lots of purchases and progress so far, but cant figure out how to transfer over using the same app and iCloud accounts. Need help before we give up.
The presentation and overall core of the game is decent, but it became a complete waste of time within the first few hours of playing. First and foremost, the 2 hour limit on idle time is just ridiculous. You only get to make two hours of progress per day without having your phone constantly on in the background? Really dumb feature. And secondly, the prices of the micro-transactions are just insane. $20 for just one manager? $10 just to remove ads? They dont make any sense at all. If you lower the prices some of the deals would be decent but as it stands right now they are just stupid. You basically have to spend all day with this app open, hundreds of dollars to make it flow properly, or just uninstall the game because it very quickly becomes an enormous, unrewarding time sink.
A little gem. Surprisingly fun and enjoyable.
This game is great for killing some time while you are multitasking.
When you get to a certain number of planets unlocked do more crafting and smelting spaces open up.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v2.6.30
- Size: 259.30 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Tech Tree Games LLC
Last updated: 4th December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: Tech Tree Games LLC