Dinsun Review

Look, I have been gaming long enough to remember when a mining loop actually respected your time instead of gating every single progression milestone behind tedious loops. PicoCraft tries to dress up its incremental mechanics with some surface-level village building, farming, and familiar companions, but at its core, it is just another repetitive dig-and-repeat grind. You swing your pickaxe, break blocks, grab whatever ore is nearby, and inevitably trudge back to the surface when your gear wears out. It is functional, sure, and the pixel art has a clean, nostalgic charm that reminds me of older handheld titles, but it lacks the depth required to keep a seasoned player hooked for long.

What truly frustrates me is how quickly the pacing stalls out. Once you push past the initial novelty of upgrading your facilities and casting a line at the fishing pond, the core gameplay loop reveals its monotony. The combat and survival elements feel tacked on rather than engaging, serving primarily as friction to slow down your descent toward the Star Core. If you enjoy mindless mobile time-killers while waiting for a bus, you might find some fleeting comfort here. But for anyone looking for substance, strategic depth, or a truly rewarding progression system, this is a skip.

Overall Stats

Pros & Cons

Clean and charming pixel-art aesthetic
Decent variety of surface activities like farming and fishing
Familiar companions add a bit of automation character

Extremely repetitive core gameplay loop
Pacing stalls out early, requiring heavy grinding
Superficial combat and progression mechanics

Technical Report

Performance: Runs smoothly on modern iPhones with stable frame rates and fast loading times.

Accessibility:

Subtitles
Colorblind Mode
Difficulty Presets
Button Remapping

Audience Fit

Buy if: Players who enjoy casual, low-stakes pixel-art incremental clickers and repetitive mobile grinding loops.

Skip if: Hardcore gamers seeking deep mechanics, fast-paced action, or meaningful narrative progression.

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PickCrafter
Mugen Dig Dig
Tap Tap Dig

Reviewer Context

Reviewer: Dinsun
Hardware: iPhone
Playtime: 12 hours
Status: Mid-game progression

The Game

Available on: iPhone, iPad

6820612711

$2.99 📅13+

Author : Hachiware, LLC.

Pubish Date : Thu Oct 15 2026

Last Update Date : Mon Nov 02 2026

Support Languages : N/A

Genres :

Version 1.0.3Mon Nov 02 2026

Easier to play
- Slimes and Golems now prioritize the path you are digging and grow stronger with ability levels. Evolved Slimes can now have 12 active summons instead of 6.
- Smoother Farm transitions, with rendering errors during screen rotation fixed.
Bug fixes
- Fixed return prompts opening repeatedly when Drill Liners or other attacks hit a distant return altar during a drill ride.
- Fixed ore being lost when new ore appeared just after a Canary gathered nearby ore.
- Fixed enemy update errors when lightning from a defeated jellyfish defeated another enemy.
- Fixed Synthesis and Salvage saving before all material costs and returned resources were applied.
- Improved protection against overwriting original progress when reading or archiving saves, or restoring backups, fails. Fixed archived originals being overwritten when multiple saves were archived in the same second.
- Fixed large integers changing when saves were rewritten or external backups were read, and some backup numbers being checked incorrectly.
- Fixed invalid saved villager requests causing errors when displaying requests or claiming rewards.
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Requires iOS 18.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
A pixel-art mining incremental where you swing your pickaxe and dig ever deeper. Gather ore, grow your base, and head for the Star Core sleeping far below.
DIG
One pickaxe, 999 floors down. Break dirt, smash stone, and strike ore and treasure chests. When your tools wear out, head back to your base on the surface, use what you brought home to upgrade your tools and your village, and dive in again.
POWER UP
20 abilities across 4 families: powder, magic, summons, and machines. Learn them on the skill tree and set the ones you like, from dynamite and meteors to a dragon and a cannon. The deeper you go, the more slots open up.
BUILD YOUR BASE AND VILLAGE
Craft tools and armor, and build village facilities one at a time. Buy supplies at the Shop, grow crops on the Farm, and cast your line at the Fishing Pond. Cook fish and crops into dishes that help on your next dig. Complete villagers' requests to help your village thrive.
DIG WITH FAMILIARS
Build a Familiar Hut to summon familiars and take them along on your digs. Familiar moles dig alongside you.
COLLECT AND MASTER
Fill the Mineral Codex, collect fish for the Aquarium, and unlock achievements. Once you enter the second cycle, you can synthesize gear and aim for Mythic rarity.
SAVE THE WORLD
Deep underground, the Star Core is waking and monsters are pouring out. Collect the core of every layer to break the seal, then destroy the Star Core at the very bottom.
PERFECT FOR YOU IF:
- You like the satisfaction of breaking through rock
- You enjoy blasting through stone with explosions and magic
- You like trying out combinations of abilities
- You enjoy collecting, filling codexes, and building up a village at your own pace
ONE-TIME PURCHASE
No ads and no in-app purchases. Play offline without an internet connection.

In-Game Events

PREMIERE

The Big Dig Begins

One pickaxe to dig through dirt, stone and ore.

A new game made for digging. Blast through rock with dynamite, meteors and dragons, and reach the Sealed Door at 999F.

Starts: 10/31/2026Ends: 11/30/2026

Ratings & Reviews

N/A out of 5 with 0 Counts

Age Rating 13+

PicoCraft: Mining Incremental is a charming retro-style idle mining game. Tap through layers of voxel earth to discover valuable ores, gems, and ancient relics. Use your raw materials to forge powerful pickaxes, hire automated mining crews, upgrade smelting furnaces, and delve deeper into dangerous underground biomes brimming with hidden treasures.

Features

Charming pixel art aesthetic with nostalgic chiptune music

Deep crafting system for pickaxes, drills, and magical artifacts

Automated miner workforce for passive resource gathering

Multiple underground biomes with unique mineral types

Prestige mechanics for infinite scaling and long-term progression

Gameplays

Incremental Underground Exploration

Break through increasingly tough rock strata to uncover new biomes with unique elemental minerals.

Prestige and Relic System

Reset your mine progress via prestige mechanics to gain ancient runes that permanently boost mining power and speed.

Q&A

Prestiging resets your current shaft depth in exchange for ancient runes, which permanently boost your overall mining efficiency.

Yes, PicoCraft is fully playable offline, allowing your automated miners to collect resources anywhere.

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