Keep Mining: Idle Pickaxe Game

Keep Mining is an idle pickaxe game about breaking rock and getting a bit stronger with every run. Hold your finger on the field, drag it across the stones and let your pickaxe do the swinging. Every broken rock drops ore, every run ends with a stack of ingots, and every upgrade makes the next dig quicker.

How a run plays out
A run starts with a short timer and a field full of rocks. Drag your finger around and your pickaxe strikes every stone inside its mining area. Plain stones give a little ore, speckled ones give more, and solid ore rocks give plenty, so go after them first. When the clock hits zero, your haul is tallied up and you collect XP and freshly smelted ingots.

Three ores, three kinds of ingots
You start out mining gold. Skills unlock copper and iron rocks later, and each ore is smelted into its own kind of ingot. Different upgrades cost different metals, so a balanced haul keeps your progress ticking along.

Skills that stack up
Your ingots go into a branching skill tree with dozens of upgrades: extra seconds on the clock, more rocks on the field, a wider mining area, chances to break a rock in one hit or double your ore and XP, and auto-mining that hits a random rock for you. It's classic incremental progression: small numbers grow into big ones, and you feel every purchase on the very next run.

The Forge
Unlock the Forge and trade your ingots for stronger pickaxes. You start with the trusty Common Pickaxe and can work up to heavy hitters like Old Reliable and The Opulaxe, each with its own mining power, hit time and mining area.

Artifacts worth digging for
From level 8, an artifact rock can turn up mid-run. Break it to add one of 14 artifacts to your collection, from the Sacred Cheese to the Golden Horn. Artifacts are Rare, Epic or Legendary, and their passive bonuses stay with you for good.

Play offline, wherever you are
This mining game works without an internet connection, so you can fit in a run on the train, on a flight or out in the bush with no signal at all. A bearded dwarf miner shows you the ropes, and after that it's just you, your pickaxe and the rock.

Highlights
• Quick timed runs: hold, drag and watch the stone shatter
• An idle mining clicker with upgrades after every run
• Gold, copper and iron ore to mine and smelt into ingots
• A deep skill tree, a Forge full of pickaxes and 14 artifacts to collect
• Crunchy sound and vibration as the stone breaks apart

If you're after a mining game where every run pushes you further, grab your pickaxe and keep mining.