Is Idle Cave Miner free to play?

Yes. Idle Cave Miner is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.

Who developed Idle Cave Miner?

Idle Cave Miner was developed by Cold Hours and published by Cold Hours.

Who published Idle Cave Miner?

Idle Cave Miner was published by Cold Hours, developed by Cold Hours. See Cold Hours's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Idle Cave Miner released?

Idle Cave Miner was released in 2023.

Idle Cave Miner

Dec 7, 2023 Casual Free to play

Developer Cold Hours Publisher Cold Hours

Profile updated Jun 2026

Casual indie game built around idler, clicker mining loops, with management and crafting tags shaping the niche. Idle Cave Miner launched in 2023 from cold-hours, self-published by the same slug, and has 1,131 Steam reviews at 80% positive, suggesting a modest but well-liked hidden gem.

Idle Cave Miner is a 2023 Casual game developed by Cold Hours and published by Cold Hours. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Casual titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Cold Hours with publisher Cold Hours is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. Because Idle Cave Miner is free to play, indielist does not convert its review count into paid copies or revenue; this page reports reception and catalog facts instead. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Idle Cave Miner can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.

Reviews

Positive

81%

Steam appid

2289450

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Paid sales estimate unavailable

This game is free to play. Steam reviews measure reception, not paid copies, so indielist does not publish unit-sales or revenue estimates for it.

Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Frequently asked questions

Is Idle Cave Miner free to play?: Yes. Idle Cave Miner is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
Who developed Idle Cave Miner?: Idle Cave Miner was developed by Cold Hours and published by Cold Hours.
Who published Idle Cave Miner?: Idle Cave Miner was published by Cold Hours, developed by Cold Hours. See Cold Hours's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Idle Cave Miner released?: Idle Cave Miner was released in 2023.

Players looking for games like Idle Cave Miner can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as (the) Gnorp Apologue, Cookie Clicker, Nodebuster, Minami Lane, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cold Hours's other releases and Cold Hours's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Idle Cave Miner sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Idle Cave Miner page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and received, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and catalog figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.