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Idle Planet Miner

by Tech Tree Games · 2019
8
house score
The verdict

A surprisingly strategic space-mining idle where the real game is selling galaxies, not building them. Deep upgrade scaling, live tournaments, and a mothership economy that rewards genuine optimization — as long as you can look past the ads.

Hot take

Underneath the free-to-play wrapping is a legitimately math-heavy prestige game. The $9.99 ad-removal is basically the real price of admission, and honestly it's worth it — the loop underneath is that good.

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The facts

Developer Tech Tree Games
Released 2019
Status active
Platforms ios, android
Primary mechanic mine planets, upgrade the mothership, sell galaxies to prestige
Prestige system galaxy resets → permanent mothership upgrades
Active vs idle pure-idle
Offline progress Yes
Monetization ad-supported
Pay to win Yes
Complexity high
Est. length hundreds of hours
idlespaceminingprestigemobiletournamentsad-supported

Last verified by the Almanac: 2026-09-04