Steam app 2289450 · updated 13 Sep 2026, 07:24 UTC
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
720 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
34 months, December 2023 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 425 hourly samples from 14 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
13 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 295 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Idle Cave Miner was released on Dec 7, 2023.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English | ● |
| French | ● |
| Italian | ● |
| German | ● |
| Spanish - Spain | ● |
| Portuguese - Portugal | ● |
| Japanese | ● |
| Korean | ● |
| Simplified Chinese | ● |
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18 achievements in total.
12 developer announcements, Dec 2023 to Jun 2025 · times in UTC
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43688931/db5c735f7fa2813dc18dc5ae2e25e20f29b431f0.png Are you ready for this new chapter? I've been working on Idle Cave Miner for over 4 years now, it started as a hobby project that I worked on when I had some free…
SpongebobChanges: Lowered relic costs for 'Bird Coins', 'Offline Rewards', and 'Starting Floor' Gem sorting will now check if it's sorted before changing sort type When visiting a floor, you now get offline rewards from that floor Improved miners…
SpongebobChanges: Updated the create and destroy costs for Abyssal Gems Reduced the cost of the Starting Floor Relic Relics now count towards game completion Fixes: Fixed Japanese currency display
SpongebobNew Features: Added the abyssal hand, with 5 slots for abyssal gems Added 7 abyssal gems Added abyssal gem grading Added 3 abyssal upgrades Added a new relic Changes: Forge timer is now monospaced (won't jump around anymore) Reduced costs…
SpongebobChanges: Increased Orion's chance to double Refinement Essence (10% >> 12%) Increased Appa's chance to double Ruin Essence (12% >> 14%) Increased Nomed's chance to double Ignition Essence (12% >> 14%) Fixes: Fixed an issue which would cause…
SpongebobAs of right now, Idle Cave Miner is Free to Play on Steam! Rewards for players who bought the game should also be fully rolled out, to receive them, either restart the game, or press the red 'restore purchases' button at the bottom of the…
SpongebobNew Features: Added 1 new Essence (Essence of Time) Added 1 new Singularity (Singularity of Time) Special forges can now forge regular gems Regular birds now give you a small amount of Coal when tapped (2~3, works with multipliers) Weekly…
SpongebobHello fellow miners, I would like to start by thanking each and every one of you for playing Idle Cave Miner, and for leaving both positive and negative feedback, this process is essential for me to keep improving the game. As you're…
SpongebobChanges: Increased the speed growth per level of all forges (0.03 >> 0.06) Reduced the amount of levels to max a forge (100 >> 50) Reduced the total costs to max forges (about 50% cheaper) Reduced the costs of most Singularity of Ruin's…
SpongebobNew Features: New passive for Grandelf (1% chance to find Mythic Gems when mining) New tier display when you reach max tier with a miner, and unlock all skins Changes: Forges now play a SFX when being enabled Increased Ratner's chance to…
SpongebobNew Features: Remade the forges Forges now have infinite storage Forges now have dynamic recipe selection Added Rich Presence Added an option to reset your save file Changes: Replaced Bonus 25% Forge Speed purchase with Bonus 25% chance to…
SpongebobChanges: Abyss: Special Tower shots now double shards mined. Morgan now has a chance to find Coal on any block he breaks (10% + 2% every tier) Updated Midas and Rick's special description to use icons instead of text Reduced Offline Rewards…
SpongebobWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | Idle Cave Miner.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | Idle Cave Miner.app | macos | ||
| Launch | Idle Cave Miner.x86_64 | linux |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
WinAppDataLocalLow | Cold Hours/Idle Cave Miner | *.dat |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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