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Mining

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

Mining is a click game where you can click on the mining pile! In Banana, you can click on the heap to mine ore! Occasionally, you may drop a mineral. Come and play with us!

What works

  • Realistic mining mechanics
  • Cooperative play up to 4 players
  • Procedural generation for unique games
  • Gradual progression and upgrades
  • Relaxing and hypnotic gameplay loop

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow and monotonous early gameplay
  • Limited social and cooperative depth
  • Technical issues and bugs reported
  • Low visual detail and minimal sound design
  • Poor value perception and repetitive mechanics

What to play next

Top picks

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Less social

Games that feels like Mining but with less teamwork and cooperation

Less idle-friendly

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Mining. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Mining. These titles are not in What to play next.

Mining: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 24/08/2026