Moose Miners

Not going to give this a recommendation. The game calls itself an idle game, but it requires constant human input. Not even the most important function, the rail building, has an auto buy. The moose spreading on the x axis is also not very good. This game is half done at best. The dev skipped everything that makes other idlers good and called it a game. Fair enough I guess, but that is why it earned it a thumbs down. The last two achievements with 1 billion gems and trees would require around 500 hours of letting it sit and mindlessly buying rail upgrades. The game has already overstayed its welcome, so this is just unnecessary grind for the sake of it.

This game was actually rathering interesting. I saw many of the comments warning about extremely slow progression, or lack thereof, and "unattainable" achievements or goals after hundreds of hours. However, I picked up the game to give it it a shot, and managed to 100% it in less than 24 hours (most of the time was spent for the last 2 achievements of the 1 billion gems and trees chopped and mined). You can't directly track how many of an item you have gathered, however there are ingame quests that show you your progress towards the next milestone (552m gems mined/580m needed for quest) This was attained mostly through splitting even numbers of moose in the tree, and mining zone, almost matching progress exactly on both sides after a certain point. However, I found it was actually quite an active playstyle, as the "quest" systems provided ample money to research what was needed to progress faster, such as increasing crafter speed, reducing crafter costs, or simply upgrading the storage to streamline production. However, the main issue with the game is the distinctive lack of detailed information. You get a bar that shows you things such as loading speed, production RPM, etc, when you click on a specific tab to build in that menu, but that doesn't tell you if you are efficiently producing items, or should put upgrades into it to make it faster. Additionally, the main method of progression after a certain point is to simply build more tracks, and add minecarts every 1-2 minutes, in order to reach "the end" of what appears to be an infinite number of resources in any direction. Overall, it is a fun game to play either actively, or passively (the finish those last few achievements) and I would recommend it to others.

The game likes to forget your selection and applies your upgrade to everything, for some reason buying ONE rail upgrade just essentially wastes all your money and sometimes ruins the game itself bc its programmed like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Just a fun mental bubble gum game.

$10? No $5? Yes Also, it only took me 40 hours to get all achievements, and I don't really concentrate on getting those.

Moose Miners is basically an idle/management game about running a giant gem mining operation staffed entirely by moose, and somehow that concept works way better than it should. The gameplay is simple - hire miners, expand deeper, improve rails and minecarts, process gems faster, and keep scaling your operation until the entire screen is full of hardworking moose and conveyor chaos. What makes the game satisfying is watching your mining setup slowly evolve from a tiny operation into a massive automated production line. It has that classic “number go up” incremental-game feeling where you constantly unlock faster production, better transport, and more efficient layouts. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} The good: - Surprisingly addictive progression loop - Relaxing game to leave running in the background - Watching your operation scale up feels satisfying - Simple mechanics that are easy to understand - Good balance between active play and idle progression - Minecart and rail management adds some strategy - Charming art style and overall vibe - Lots of upgrades and expansion options - Perfect second-monitor game The bad: - Not a huge amount of depth once you unlock most systems - Gameplay can become repetitive after several hours - UI and upgrade management can feel clunky - Some mechanics are not explained very clearly - Performance can struggle with massive operations - Limited endgame content right now - Some players may find the progression too slow - A few quality-of-life features are missing Overall, Moose Miners is a simple but satisfying incremental management game. It’s not trying to reinvent the genre, but if you enjoy watching giant automated systems slowly grow while numbers constantly increase, it’s easy to lose a lot of time to it.

lots of moose doing moose things

Nice idle game

Ich würd's active-idler nennen. Optik is n idler. Handling auch. Aber es gibt kein offline-Gewinn. Also is'es irgendwie fesselnd und gleichzeitig 'nur/bloß was für nebenbei. Macht mir Laune wenn ich noch Podcasts, Interviews, Hörspiele oder einfach nur meine eigene Musik höre und "nebenbei", was "zu tun" habe. Was die original Musik anbelangt: ...ich habe das Spiel 8h laufen gehabt, Interviews gehört und dabei lief die Spielmusik die ganze Zeit mit. 8!H! -#ichhattediezeit- Noch ne Frage? OK! Es gibt n paar Bugs. Das Zäune sind wo keine sein sollten ist mir ein Rätsel, wer das Spiel kennt wird wissen was ich meine, aber ich bin guten Mutes das dies in Zukunft von vielen gemeldet und darob behoben werden wird. Ja? Nein? Vielleicht?

Pretty nice game. Managed to complete the achievements on it in a reasonable time. and there weren't any achievements where you had to grind days for just 1, meaning it doesn't have achievements that just drag the game. 100% in about 30h, casual play.