Drill and Collect - Idle Miner Reviews

I would like to see
- having to pay money for the previous levels change to where you can have a choice of a ad or paying money.

- the next level price make since to how much you have to pay on the level your on

- the glitches to be fixed
* the rope shows it’s longer then I can even go
* the game take away part of my mining that I know I had
* it could show you more of one color but never fails that you always end up with way more gold then anything

- something from the previous level to save onto the next level. Your doing all the work I know the money saved but until y’all fix having to pay for it to be brung to you.

- the money saved from the previous level be worth collecting. I’m making 10x more then what’s being got from previous levels

- more of a max on everything
* max capacity for your player to carry
* max what you can lay on the platform for the conveyer belt (55 is not a whole lot especially when after you leave that level it’s not even used 10 would work after you leave)

After these are fixed it would be worth 5 stars.

Pros: Great for killing time and simple to learn. Satisfying if you mine a ton of stuff and vacuum it all at once for those who are into ASMR.

Cons: Overheats my device, kills battery, and randomly pulls you into ads during mining.

To the Devs:
1. Please stop pulling me into ads while excavating. I don’t mind the ad banner at the bottom of the mining screen and the ads for additional upgrades. But it’s frustrating to be minding my own business and be sucked into an ad that takes me out of the game for a minute or so. It’s easier just to kill the game and maybe log back in… or go to another app.
2. Please do something to reduce the overheating. I know it’s not trendy these days to minimize processing power, but if my phone overheats or my battery dies, I’m done playing. Which means I’m not watching more ads.

For what the game is advertised to do, it does just that. Great game for any age and perfect for killing time. Better to mindlessly play this game than mindlessly scroll social media. I’ll upgrade to a 5 star rating when the cons are addressed.

Great one the first levels but then you just get tired of the ads. And I’m not putting my phone in airplane mode all the time while playing, and I’m not paying 7 bucks to get rid of the ads. Plus once you pass level ten it’s just repeating everything. Stopped on area 11 because nothing new was there. Tired of running back to area one to collect money. Great for a flight but then won’t ever open again. And back to the ads. It was a trade off. I counted the time I got to play and the time I had to watch ads. One minute of game time turned into one minute of ads. Lower the price to get rid of them and maybe have the money from previous levels automatically go into your account and maybe I’ll play again.

Became addicted go the game, but at some point it becomes impossible to keep money because the rope length cost wayyy too much, but is needed to continue to play. I have been crushing the levels, but I don’t see myself getting past this one. I also wish the game continued while I was away. That way I would come back to accumulated cash. The further levels the money stops making sense. Love the investing but no real wealth building aspect. People love when they have a big savings stashed with these games… but that is impossible the further along you get. Other than that… love killing time with this game.

I’ve played this game for a while and so far I enjoy playing. Maybe one suggestion I can say, besides walking over to the beginning and walking back or walking to the other side of the other side to collect the money. Maybe have a spot where your at a certain point, have a spot where you walk onto and it collects all the money from all the other areas then walking all the way to the one side and back to the other.
Just a suggestion, you don’t have to do it. Thank you

It’s a really good game, pretty fun and keeps you entertained for the long rides or just waiting around in the beginning but after a while of playing and leveling up, the ads become ridiculous. I get it, it’s a free app and they get $ from ads but it gets to a point where it feels like straight greed. You get an ad about every 2 minutes and they come randomly. It makes the game boring after a while and just not want to play. I’ve made a lot of progress and like the game but considering deleting for the amount of ads.

Love love this game, hot others to download. But level 10 has taken me a week…no, not to collect money, but to open the next area!! The counter is insanely slow!
Push button acknowledgment of spending the money so it was instant would be awesome!! Cause standing in the same spot for 6 Q when it deducts a literally $1 at a time is crazy! 😂

This game is fun but it takes forever to open a new level. I’m on level 10 and it takes hours of standing on the little square to finally spend the money to unlock a new level. I have plenty of money needed to unlock it but just the amount of time it take makes me bored. I hope that they can just make it go faster. Other than that I enjoy the game immensely.

A few weeks ago I wrote a review and Said I was disappointed that there wasn’t a no ads purchase then a few weeks later I went in the game and saw that there was a thing for no ads and then the developer wrote me and told me so they do care

Love the game! The animation seems to get bogged down the deeper you go, and the more material it has to animate, but it looks like you guys are already putting out bug fixes for that. Love that there is an option to go ad free and I am thinking of doing it! Lastly, my only actual suggestion so far—can we get skins to make the main character female? Would be cool to have female employee choices too. Thanks!

So we really need a power up for the processing line…I am at a point where it takes so long to get money to go to the next area…doesn’t matter if you have to watch and ad or even buy one some thing because whatever the first color gem is u go so much of it and takes so long to process it

Update…
Since the new update if you close the game every once in awhile it wiped your cash away and any gems you had already dug and processed

The game at a certain level get bugged and stops working like you can still play it but the money you get for some reason starts going to negative and your not able to keep playing anymore

So after the update some things were fixed but I unlocked an area without having the necessary cash and the area I was working on (area 12) is now not producing cash even with orders being filled and now I’m showing a negative balance. And even if I unlock the next area without finishing building all the lines I can’t build or upgrade the ones I have or don’t have. This has been an issue for awhile and it’s frustrating

Their is to many ads every minute theirs an add or 2 pls fix them even when Wi-Fi is off their are auto ads I don’t know how that’s possible but it is pls fix it or I might not play good game Tho Game also lags the deeper you go or theirs a bunch of materials bunch up which I like but it lags pls fix that

The game lags way to much, the storage space for the convert belt needs to be upped to allow for more goods to go through. Stop with the ads every minute every time I’m about to do something another stupid ad pops up and then lags the game for two minutes before I get mad and restart the thing. I know everyone is trying to make a buck but this is just horrible with the ads all the time

Best game I’ve played in a while and I played a lot of games in my life if you would add a indicator well mining that you have no more resources so then you can use the vacuum and get more gems for your work or to put in the processor.

Sincerely a wondered Player Karson

So I was scrolling at DrillandCollect Store and saw this game I decided I should play it I played it for like 2 hours and I even forgot I had to eat breakfast and lunch I took a break from any other games and played this fun game if you see this please PLEASE download this game if your bored😍🤞

Not bad, it’s fun and kills time, however popping an ad in my face while in the middle of playing made me uninstall. Suggestion: you guys should take after the game Eatventure and instead of smacking ads in players faces, actually give them the option to watch ads for rewards instead of consistently smacking ads up. Oh and $7.99 to remove the ads 😂 what a joke 🤡. Why would I pay that when you consistently throw ads in my face?? 👍🏻

The reason I say it’s good is because it’s fun but the reason it’s not perfect is because I have no money because I spent it all on trying to upgrade to the next area and I am at the max distance of my rope length so I can’t get any more money in this game

I’m actually rich in the game I have so much money it’s the best it’s so satisfyingIt’s like the best game I can ever play on my iOS iPad and I only have to hire one more worker and this is the best game I ever played and that’s all I want to tell you

The upgrades aren't worth the money!! Way to many ads ! It feels as though the “game” is the ads, and you get a “break” and actually get to play the game!

There needs to be an update where you can make money offline! There needs to be an upgrade where the workers from a previous area mine the more valuable resource more frequently!

The maximum rope length stretches longer on the left side of the screen for a bit and then shrinks back up so you can’t vacuum it up!

There needs to be an update where you can increase the speed and carry amount of the workers. There also needs to be a option where you can fast travel to other areas where you can collect the money faster rather than travel to other areas manually.

There needs to be an update where there is a multiplayer option where if you have friends that play the game you can share resources with other players. My fiancé and I play the game together and can’t share resources.

There needs to be an update where you can earn purple tickets for free more often, like once or twice a day, a week , a month , etc.

I’m a video game tester for a living and these are the things that I have seen so far that you could improve on and I would give a 5 star. Please change these things and I think that the game would vastly improve!

The game is a good concept but it’s execution isn’t horrendous, it’s glorified for no reason by people that doesn’t know much of how mobile gaming works, first things, your ad amount is so ridiculous even after you buy the no forced ads you still get 10 ads every 5 mins depending of how much digging you do and how many actions you do within a span of time. Second thing, when you mine so much the game starts lagging out and not performing under a heavy load of multi packets of data being sent at once, programming isn’t the greatest. Third and finally, I noticed that there’s a pattern to dig infinity without bogging down the digging machine and you just upgrade rope length but they somehow figured out that I was doing that because they started cutting my amount I dogged by a 1/5 because it was crashing servers, something really fishy about it all.

I think the game is fun, but there’s really no point to previous areas because they mainly give the lowest paying mineral the most. I usually only go to the 2nd previous area to pick up cash if I need some because past that it’s not worth running. Also, it would be more beneficial if the materials given when you upgrade to the next area was more dispersed rather than mainly the cheapest mineral being mined mostly. Another thing is when you get past the major mining area where there is no longer rocks, also has too much of the minor mining material. There are also too many upgrades for the tools that make it not worth it. I can get away only upgrading my saw blade up to level 4 or 5 and it’s easy to mine with. The drill is a lot better in certain circumstances too. The main thing I’ve needed to upgrade is rope length. Which hasn’t been an issue at all. But the other upgrades get too expensive. And upgrading the next unlocked area is a higher priority than mining the next area and getting the money then upgrading, it’s wasteful to do that. But other than this, I’d like to see an update that focuses on increasing the previous area’s production of cash, better mineral priority for previous areas is more important imo. Thanks for reading, hope to hear from the devs.

It’s an okay game in itself but the constant advertisements is just ridiculous. I get an ad roughly every 30 seconds which absolutely kills the little enjoyment there is for the game. In addition they charge either $5.99 or $6.99 to remove forced ads which is a normal thing to do for games since that’s a chunk of their revenue but in all honesty the game itself isn’t enjoyable enough to pay that. Truthfully I could see myself paying 99¢ for the removal of forced ads but no more than that.

I enjoy playing this game. However, some things really frustrate me. First, I’m not overly fond of randomly being pulled into ads when I’m playing. I don’t mind the ads when I have to watch them to upgrade a part because I don’t have enough money. The second thing is there should be a way to get purple tickets without having to buy them. Third, it is really frustrating when you dig down what seems like a good distance yet when you excavate you can only excavate about half of how far you dug down. These issues should be addressed in order to get a five star rating from me. Other than that this is a good game!

I really do like this game . I just wished Some things would improve. A lot of people complain about ads. Don’t get me wrong I used to. But that’s something we obviously can’t change. But like mentioned in previous comments. I wished we could get purple tickets without having to buy them. Or they should add mini games and have the tickets as a prize or what ever. And I really don’t understand why it’s always diamonds., and rubys?? Why can’t there be other stones? Period, opal, black diamond… because the game is starting to feel repetitive… and I’m liking it a little less.

Its not a bad game, but you will burn through the content in under 30 minutes. There are only 3 levels that just repeat. Same gemstones, same 6 machine upgrades, nothing new. The two upgrades that persist you will max out after two levels.

I guess they were just going for an extremely basic, plain game. DrillandCollect store needs those games too i suppose. A little disappointed from the lack of content.

I love this game you have made. But may I make a tiny suggestion? At lvl 10 would you please make it possible for a cute little robot or a creature to go back and collect all the money that is made on previous levels? This game is so great I play it religiously. But it’s a tad annoying having to go all the way back to lvl one to collect all the money that has been made.
Sincerely from a helpful fan. Jax Shadow.

I usually hate games like this but honestly this game is really fun and addicting it’s a great game… now the reason I give this game three stars to get rid of ads dev wants you to pay 7.99 you get other stuff with that but no thanks and if you are going to play this game then you have to buy that because during gameplay it stops every 30 seconds to show you an ad as well as constantly playing them on the bottom of your screen ….even though this is a constant annoyance I still play the game that is until you started showing nasty pimple popping bug I. Skin games now I’m deleting this and I hope others do also!

I don’t know what is going on with the game. Either it’s an IOS thing or it’s bugs in the game. I go to start the game and it immediately closes DrillandCollect . If it doesn’t do that then I’m immediately shut out of the game after about 5 minutes before really even getting to play.

I genuinely enjoy the game but it’s annoying that for some reason I’m unable to play.

This game could be really fun to pass time…but…around area 6 it gets so ad heavy you can only do 1 upgrade…ad. Take 10 steps…ad. The remove ad cost minimum is 6.99 and this game is far from being robust enough to demand that. I get the point of ads as incentive to make a purchase, however when you just want money so bad you force it on your end user to the point of rage deletion…you might want to rethink your model. I am more likely to spend the money if a developer would create a game robust enough to warrant a good purchase, but this game is the same repetitive action in level 1 as it is on level 10. I would save the money and spend it on a game that actually delivers a fun, progressive experience. I would be likely to pay maybe 1.99 to remove the ads on this game and play until I got sick of the same level over and over again, just different colors…Dev’s…do better to deliver to your end user before demanding top earner game prices.

Everyone is saying it. I get that people make things, and want to earn money off of in app purchases. I'm not even mad about it. But this game has an ad to do anything. And then when not doing anything, there are ads about every 60-90 seconds. I find if I turn off cell data, and wifi, I can play without any interruptions. It's not at all worth the money they are asking to remove ads. Plain and simple this is not an $8 game. The levels just repeat with zero change. To a simple mind, maybe the fact that you make more money on each level provides some entertainment, but the earnings to cost ratio are the same through every level. So literally no change in money. Couple that with the fact that there are the same two levels over and over..... I wouldn't pay $8 for this game. Not in a million years.

I would’ve put 1.5 stars but that isn’t an option. The game is cool definitely a semi entertaining pass-time. There’s an ad every three minutes though. At most it’s five minutes but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was two minutes honestly. Without fail. There. Will. Be. An. Ad. After. EVERY. FEW. MINUTES. This game could’ve been an easy four maybe even a five star. But the developers are greedy and unreasonable so they insist on spamming you with ads. You can even say they need the money. The game is so simple. Tiktok filters are probably more complex. Not to mention they also have ads at the bottom of your screen the whole time so it’s not like they’re struggling. If you love ads, this is the game for you. If you love games, this isn’t the game for you.

This game is so fun to play and I love it when people play it with me and I play it with my friends because it’s so easy to play and I don’t have any problems playing it because it’s so simple and fun but I also like the idea of having a game where everyone plays it with their friends because it’s so different to not be able to play it with them because they are so close together and they are just different people and they are all so similar to each other and they are both very similar as I love it but I don’t like to have a lot of them because It’s just too much of a challenge !!!

My test em all app told me i had to review the game for improvements so heres my review since DrillandCollect has no place to review it

The game play overall is ok its way to aggravating and glitchy with all the ads and the basic mining thats done on the old areas when a new area is unlocked is very very disappointing it should mine the materials as fast as i was if not at an optimal speed the little hired workers get in my way and make collecting my money or resources like coal very hard and then the game glitches and even locks up alot of the ads id say 40% of them cause the game to lock up on the iphone 7 running the ios 15.x it needs way less ads and a way to waych a video ad to get the skip tickets too! It overloaded, overworked and overheated my phone to the point of me having to beat my phone to make the ads load and not lock up its definitely a battery draining app and huggge resource hog ie memory and processor usage was maxed out. Hopefully this review helps but test em all did pay me for my game play i got $4 for the total gameplay from level(area1) to level 6

The game is actually really fun. I could easily go hours playing. There’s something satisfying about it. Definitely room for improvement around game mechanics and minor aspects but overall a great game. BUT, ADSSS. A TON of ads. Literally insufferable amount of ads. It’s technically designed to make you buy the no ads option. As soon as i downloaded the game, after a few upgrades i was getting an ad every 5-10 secs. Every 10 steps, ad, drill for 4 secs, ad, vacuum for 4 secs, ad, stack on metals, ad. I ended up deleting the game literally 20-25 minutes after i had downloaded it. Like i said, i could easily see myself playing this for hours, but there’s just no way i’m paying $6 for a game or letting myself suffer watching 100 ads every 10 minutes. Developers are clearly trying to milk money out of a game (fair game) but as a consumer, this ain’t it. Hope they find a better way to make money and remove the forced ads. Good luck to anyone willing to go the pain.

Bugs

- ore gets permanently stuck to your back if your helper tried to deposit ore at the same time as you.
- I left my phone on mining coal. When I went to collect the stockpile after a while, I was sent to another dimension with no way back until I restarted the game.
- if your rope length is far enough, you can dig straight down deep and skip cutting the extra dirt around you. But after a certain point, the game deletes the upper part of the ground so you miss out on all that money you could’ve made if you meticulously sawed then collected every dirt piece little by little :( not cool when I found out.

Needs

- game needs a reset button. Some kind of prestige to start from the beginning but have some permanent upgrade.
- game needs something permanent. You can play the entire game never leveling the drill, the saw, and the vacuum. Just focus on rope length and you’ll make it far. It feels pointless to upgrade which defeats the purpose of playing the game I think.
- game needs more variety in the higher levels. New mechanic or features. At the very least have repeating ores spawning in the drilling section towards the end instead of an endless void of dirt with nothing new.

Game can really be something entertaining as I don’t get tired of sawing around.

The game is really satisfying and fun to play while you watch tv or something, so I was happy to pay a few dollars to remove forced ads, but they sneakily make you have to continue to watch ads anyways… you still have to watch an ad to unlock the first worker at every new mine. ‘Technically’ you could skip buying this worker and just progress the mine manually, but this slows progress dramatically and skips one of the main features of progression: workers automating mines. So in this way, they trick you into paying to remove forced ads, something I was happy to do for a game I enjoyed, but then lock gameplay mechanics that are essential to progression behind ads… so you still have to watch them anyways. And they still fill big chunks of your screen with “watch ad to get x boost” or whatever

Tbh this game is my go to when I’m mentally strung out. I always go to this game when I’m anxious or just need a break from my own head. I love the concept and I hope the devs keep updating and don’t give up on this game. It seriously helps me so much. I saw people whining about the $6.99 ad free cost but dude… y'all realize that money goes to helping develop the game, right? I don’t mind spending what I would on a Starbucks drink on this game. If Apple could tell you play time on games, I’d easily have over 100+ hours just in the last month. Love the game. Love the concept. Keep the updates comin! <3

I have a tester app that actually gives you cash after you add up a bunch of coins and I’ve made overall like $75 on it. The way that you earn money is by watching ads on different games or reaching levels on games most of them do as they’re supposed to and give you the coins so that you can reach a level to make actual money with PayPal. so, after watching some ads to get rewards within this game, it is not keeping track of it, so I did not get my coins. So I am deleting this game. Because it did not do as it was supposed to.
I also have to add that I got to a certain point in the game where I could not go any further without paying. Which I don’t do I let the games pay me not the other way around. Lol. Not falling for those traps… Again.

Pros: Great for killing time and simple to learn. Satisfying if you mine a ton of stuff and vacuum it all at once for those who are into ASMR.

Cons: Overheats my device, kills battery, and randomly pulls you into ads during mining.

To the Devs:
1. Please stop pulling me into ads while excavating. I don’t mind the ad banner at the bottom of the mining screen and the ads for additional upgrades. But it’s frustrating to be minding my own business and be sucked into an ad that takes me out of the game for a minute or so. It’s easier just to kill the game and maybe log back in… or go to another app.
2. Please do something to reduce the overheating. I know it’s not trendy these days to minimize processing power, but if my phone overheats or my battery dies, I’m done playing. Which means I’m not watching more ads.

For what the game is advertised to do, it does just that. Great game for any age and perfect for killing time. Better to mindlessly play this game than mindlessly scroll social media. I’ll upgrade to a 5 star rating when the cons are addressed.

I understand u make money from ads. But some of these ads are at least 90 seconds long. And then you have to hit this tiny f’n button, a pop-up for DrillandCollect , exit out of that, hit another tiny button after 15 seconds, if they don’t immediately switch to another screen for 10 seconds after showing the previous button, which just might bypass it all if only u could press it in the 0.05 seconds it shows it for and then when u FINALLY THINK YOURE JUST ABOUT DONE!!!!! There’s another 10 seconds, if ur lucky, of waiting while the countdown that starts at 5, or maybe even 3, as slowly as possible drops down to 0 and then the beautiful “X” appears.
Afterwards you’re left absolutely f’n HATING the game that’s being promoted and this game that hires/shows abusive despicable ads like that.

Before the most recent update, I used to love this game. I downloaded it just a few weeks ago and turned off the mobile Data for the game to avoid ads that every game these days is plagued with. But somehow, ads have been added back into the game, even while mobile data is disabled.
I understand that games use ads to make money, but having my play interrupted every minute or so by an advertisement that I cannot avoid is too much
The developer needs to introduce less intrusive ads or bring back the ability to get out of them by disabling mobile data
Until the ads problem is fixed, this game is unplayable without paying $6. The (free) price tag is a scam, do not download unless you have $6 to spend.