“Downloaded after seeing an ad for the app claiming "No in game ads, just pure relaxation 🧘♀️🎧" and thought it looked fun...FALSE ADVERTISING. The charge is $6.99/week to avoid forced ads. I also had the game lag and shut down mid-play…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,074 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.3 ★290,819 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
471 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Build a mining empire in this exciting excavation game adventure. Dig up hidden treasures deep beneath the earth’s surface in this rich planet of mud, dirt, sand and ore. Drill, dig, and strategize to become a building tycoon in this idle mining game for casual users.
Your job is to start excavating the earth and collect valuable resources that you can sell for maximum profit. You'll get to strategize and manage your resources wisely to maximize your earnings and expand your operations in this idle drilling simulation game.
To get your adventure started, hire hard-working drillers who will dig up strategic valuables for you.
As you collect more mud, dirt, sand and ores, sell the resources for money, which you can use to upgrade your equipment, hire more workers, and expand your coal mining operations.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 1.28.54 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.28.54, updated 2026-09-17.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.28.53 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.28.53, updated 2026-09-10.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 290 distinct reviewers — 54.3% of the 534 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 16 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 534 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (10 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Spend time watching forced ads than playing the game. Pure greed on display DO NOT DOWNLOAD.”
“awful ad balance that leaves you watching ads more than playing the game. ads forced every minute and every time you leave the drilling part of game as well. $10 is also more money than any other lame game asks for to remove ads. ruined a…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.28.54.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.95
Highest$12.95
Vip Pass 1 Week$6.99
Season Pass$6.99
Starter Pack$8.49
60 Tokens$1.95
100 Tokens$2.95
Show 5 more purchases
250 Tokens$6.95
500 Tokens$12.95
Remove Forced Ads$5.95
10 Tickets$2.99
30 Tickets$6.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.