Ground Driller Reviews

This game is fun but it seems like it was made for advertisements. Anything you do you can choose to watch an ad to do it better. When the game gives you debuffs you can watch an ad to get rid of it. It takes 5 hours for your drill to dig through a certain part, watch a couple of ads then your through that part as well. You want to double the speed of your miners, watch an ad. Additionally, if it takes 30 minutes to achieve something in game, it has to be in game. You cannot close out of it because that does not affect the timer at all. So it forces you to stay in game to even have an effect on your progress. However, some tasks last for 5 hours meaning that you would have to stay in game for 5 hours which no one would want to do so you have to either watch an ad or use diamonds (premium currency) to progress.

This game would be much better without the very obvious advertisement but hey, this is a game meant for children.

You cannot play this game reasonably without watching multiple ads every few minutes. I’m not talking for simple buffs, but ads just to progress. It’s a charming game that loses its appeal after about 45 min when the “ads for everything” kick in. Hit a layer of water? Watch an ad. Hit a diamond layer? Watch 3 ads to advance (or wait 8 hours). Get “bad news”? Watch an ad to remove it or wait 10 min because your drill shutdown completely.

Also the way gold is spent feels very linear and not imaginative. Again, charming game, cute graphics, but gameplay fails heavily.

They need to cut back on how many ads you get quiet literally every 1-2 minutes I have to watch an ad to get out of a dangerous gas zone and if you don’t want to spend money on a game you have to 3 ads to clear it then a few minutes later another pops up if there wasn’t such frequent things you need to watch ads to get by then would be 5*

Fun game, a slight different aspect of the level upgrading. I did enjoy it until I realized when come upon a barrier which takes 5-6hrs to break through. You’re first thought is sure I’ll watch 3 ads to speed up the process, then as soon as you pass the barrier another barrier comes up. No big deal, I’ll come back in a few hours and but to your surprise the clock hasn’t moved a second. This is the first upgrading game I’ve come across where offline time does not account for anything. If you expect people to play your game for 5-6hr increments you are out of your mind. I don’t mind watching ads here and there but when you design a game where people can not progress without paying for gems or watching an ad seems ridiculous. Oh forgot to mention it’s the same 1 ad over and over and over and over and over.

The fishing and mini games maybe the coolest thing ever but the mining research is a bit too complicated even I’m not sure what to do anymore maybe improve it back to the way it was or keep it and put some of the original work improvements into so it’s easy please I just love the game so much hope you guys do lots of fun and great things you guys are awesome can’t wait to see what you think of next

Idle games likes this are a fun way to pass the time, and this one does it well, though there are a few issues I have.

First, compatibility for the iPhone X and above. Because of the notch I can't see half of the top, which is especially annoying seeing as I cannot tell how much gold I have. This means every time I think I have enough gold, I have to wait for it to suggest buying gold.

Second, I suggest adding the option to make multiple upgrades at once. When the player earns a lot more gold and has to upgrade something that is cheap, it becomes a chore to click click click until you run into the "please buy gold" option listed above.

Other than that I haven't run into anything else. Excellent game :)

While the game looks good and the idea is quite solid, the executions in unfortunately lacking. The very nature of such games is long lasting periods of inactivity and so they are meant to be visited a couple of times a day to make a few upgrades and check on progress. Here the dev. team has made a strange choice to limit acquisition of game-progressing resources as well as digging to time spent directly in game. This means that unless the game is on your screen virtually no progress is being made, except for money being gathered (which in m experience is of marginal importance). In my opinion, if the dev. team insists on limiting progression to time spent in game, there should still be some resource gathering and digging going on while the game is off.

I like playing this game. Don’t get me wrong it is decent. But I do feel like it could be better. This is what I mean....

- When offline, I accumulate coins, but magically my ore storage never increases? Seems strange considering it’s an idle style game. Not sure why this is.

- Ads. I like that I can choose to do ads when I want to do them. But I feel like sometimes it’s almost forced upon you because every minute or so I’ll get a 10m debuff that I can clear if I watch an ad. This is great and all, but I don’t want to watch a 30 second ad every minute or every other minute. I feel like this could be decreased.

- When watching an ad to increase my mining speed and such, I only get 10 mins of increased productivity. Competitive apps provide hours of increased production for one ad.

If these things would get a nerf so to speak, this would easily be a 5 star game. Thanks for your time.

The game at the beginning is great, has clear instructions on how to get started. The only complaint I have is on devices such as the iPhone X, You can’t see the coins at the top of the screen due to the layout of the phone and game. Fix this and this is 5 stars for sure. 😁

This is a good game in early release so this will probably not be relevant in the future but if you tap on the digger upgrade and quickly tap on the miner tab then both screens appear at once and if you press highest floor and lowest floor over and over then chests and rock formations appear the more you do it more of them appear. Overall it is a great game and a fun concept and I see myself playing this in the future.

I like this game already, but there’s one problem. For the XS max ( not sure if for the x, Xs, or Xr) the amount of coins that you have can not be seen and I was just wondering if you could probably fix that. Your are able to see the gems just fine but the coins are not there.

The game itself is fun, but I wish that the boosts you get for watching videos would last longer than 10 minutes. Most games are 2-4 hours. Also I wish that while you were offline you still collected the minerals instead of gold.

This game is good apart from whenever I try to buy something with gold and I don’t have enough it’ll bring you directly to the store and will attempt to buy asking me for my Apple ID password, this can be annoying when spam clicking for new upgrades.

This is a great app, it’s a good time waster but I wish you didnt have to tap every time to upgrade miners and Other things maybe bring in a tap and hold type of system
Edit: I can’t seem to watch any ads anymore and I’m not sure why. Could it possibly be a bug?

Why are inconvenience like water and mining events so common I either sit in game for 4.5 hours or watch 3 ads at least lets mining events work when not in GroundDriller or get rid of the rebuff when the occur it just lies down the game play which is already minuscule

This games amazing in every way if you ask me, these people complaining about the ads and whatnot is kind of sad, I mean they’re 30sec ads and THEY ARE OPTIONAL and they help tremendously if you ask me, would you rather wait the 5 hours it takes to dig one of the Excavation lvls or watch 2 30sec ads and it be over in a snap? This is amazing I would love to see maybe a discord for this server from the devs and definitely some end game content

I’m impressed with the game. I like the whole objective. These are the type of games I love playing. If there was any change to he made, it would be getting sent to the offer thing right away. When I spam click something and then I don’t have enough, I prefer it doesn’t take me directly to the offer thing. It should be a do you want to go to the store thing instead. But other than that, I’m really enjoying he game.

I don’t really review games, so if your reading this, than it’s a great game! I love the 3D graphics, it’s a great time killer too! I’ve been playing this for a few hours now and I’m not bored with it! Ad Free unless you want double money, which is fine with me! No complaints here! Keep it up!

I have really enjoyed this game so far. I like that progress only occurs when the game is open. I don’t like it when it does progress as you could upgrade a little bit, wait a day and finish the game with the large amount of resources and crap. Great idle game.

Fix the amount of money it takes to upgrade things and the way the leveling is with the money and things possibly little bit cheaper