Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026
Mining: 206 releases in the last 12 months
There is no price yet: it needs 30 or more indie paid launches in the last four complete quarters. 20 of 166 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 151% on the year before: 206 against 82.
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 206 82 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 452 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 977 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where this tag stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.
Boards rank genres and tag pairs. This tag is a theme, mood, feature or presentation tag, so it is never ranked as a market on its own; its pairs are listed below.
Launch success
Matured indie paid launches that earned an estimated $100k or more, against the number expected for games at the same price tier and launch quarter.
- Launches
- 166
- Hit rate
- 12.0%7.4% to 19.0%
- Expected rate
- 5.3%
Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
166 launchesEstimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.
- Bottom tenth
- $40
- Median
- $1,486
- Top tenth
- $107,375
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +151%
Tag
- MiningNot a genreA theme, mood, feature or presentation tag: never ranked as a market on its own, only inside pairs.
Comparable games
8 indie titlesThe biggest indie games in this tag by estimated lifetime gross. Revenue is shown as a number at 50 or more reviews, as a range at 10 to 49, and not at all below 10.
A Game About Digging A Hole™ (opens the Steam store)2025 · 18,827 reviews, 89% positiveest. $1.9M
MineMogul (opens the Steam store)2025 · 4,388 reviews, 96% positiveest. $1.3M
(the) Gnorp Apologue (opens the Steam store)2023 · 9,623 reviews, 94% positiveest. $1.3M
AETHUS (opens the Steam store)2026 · 2,048 reviews, 94% positiveest. $829k
Keep on Mining! (opens the Steam store)2025 · 8,322 reviews, 93% positiveest. $827k
Digseum (opens the Steam store)2024 · 8,044 reviews, 97% positiveest. $487k
The Spotter: Dig or Die (opens the Steam store)2026 · 1,819 reviews, 84% positiveest. $478k
My Little Universe (opens the Steam store)2023 · 1,506 reviews, 89% positiveest. $457k
More with Mining
pairs with Mining- Casual + Miningno price113 releases in 12 months
- Mining + Incrementalno price88 releases in 12 months
- Mining + Idlerno price72 releases in 12 months
- 2D + Miningno price71 releases in 12 months
- Simulation + Miningno price69 releases in 12 months
- Exploration + Miningno price54 releases in 12 months
- Mining + Resource Managementno price48 releases in 12 months
- Relaxing + Miningno price48 releases in 12 months
- Pixel Graphics + Miningno price47 releases in 12 months
- Mining + Automationno price38 releases in 12 months
- Action + Miningno price37 releases in 12 months
- Strategy + Miningno price36 releases in 12 months
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