Gold Mining Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 58% over the last 30 days against 73% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 760, 19 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Jalopy ($14.99, scores 42) and Out of Ore ($24.99, scores 43) both outscore it.
Players rate it 73 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 58 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 1,334 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
166 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Gold Mining Simulator scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/451340/gold-mining-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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