Relaxing, addictive grind loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Very Chill and nice game. I like the grind aspect thus the hours”
Steam review · 207.8 h played ↗
Gold Mining Simulator
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 72%Mostly Positive · 72%Code Horizon2017Driving · Sandbox · Simulation
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago
The verdict
A slow, grindy, relaxing gold-mining sim with satisfying progression and heavy machinery, held back by loading-zone stutter, physics bugs and DLC resentment. Skip it if you hate jank.
Great for
Patient players who enjoy slow, grindy, relaxing solo sims with heavy machinery and can tolerate jank
Main risk
Constant loading-zone stutter, physics glitches and bugs that the devs seem to have stopped fixing
What players love
Cheap on sale and excited for GMS2
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“the game is relatively cheap and worth its money”
Steam review · translated · 8.9 h played ↗
Devs improved the game and add content
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“Gave it another try yesterday and what a difference!”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗
Rewarding progression with big machinery
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“Starting from basic tools and working your way up to massive machines is both rewarding and fun.”
Steam review · 23.2 h played ↗
Great for fans of Gold Rush show
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“Great game for fans of the Gold Rush show on Discovery.”
Steam review · translated · 6.8 h played ↗
Deep, realistic mining mechanics
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“The ground is deterministic, so you can save, run the same five truckloads through two different wash plant configs, and measure the difference to the gram.”
Steam review · 339.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Loading-zone stutter and freezes
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“It doesnt matter your hardware it will still lag despite getting 200 FPS it will drop to 0 in loading zones then accelerate back up to 200.”
Steam review · 38 h played ↗
Buggy physics and flying machines
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“your excavator will fly through the air before your bucket will accept anymore dirt”
Steam review · 199.6 h played ↗
Paid fixes, DLC paywalls and cash grab
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Now they want to force us to buy all! dlcs so we can have a 90% discount for a fix, that should come with the base game for free.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗
Broken tutorial and quests
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Tutorial bug is a pain. I cannot be bothered start again and they will not fix it.”
Steam review · 130.5 h played ↗
Poor controls and clunky driving
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“a great game, ruined by GARBAGE CONTROLS.”
Steam review · 5.1 h played ↗
Motion sickness from camera
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“this game is not a mining simulator is a motion sickness simulator.”
Steam review · 17.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support19 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 (64-bit) or Newer. Doesn't support Mac OS.
ProcessorIntel Core i5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVidia GeForce GTX 760
Storage19 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 (64-bit) or Newer. Doesn't support Mac OS.
ProcessorIntel Core i7
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVidia GeForce GTX 970
Storage19 GB available space
OSWindows 7 (64-bit) or Newer. Doesn't support Mac OS.
ProcessorIntel Core i5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVidia GeForce GTX 760
Storage19 GB available space
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