$6.99Mining Merchant Dig, craft, sell, unwind
Mine by day, sell by night in this relaxing pixel-art loop. You dig up ores and gems, smelt them into rings and necklaces, then stock the shelves of your uncle's crumbling jewelry shop and serve picky customers back to prosperity, solo or with up to four friends.
Is Mining Merchant worth it?
Mining Merchant is worth it if…
- you like short, repeatable loops of gathering, making, and selling
- you want a shopkeeping game with picky customers but no harsh penalties
- you want something cute and colorful to play slowly with friends
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Dig underground, restock the shop
Your days have a comfortable rhythm. You head underground in your mech, break apart rock, and haul up gems, rare metals, and buried treasure. Then night falls and the shop opens. You smelt ore, shape rings and necklaces, set gemstones with a physics-based crafting step, and put the finished pieces on the shelves.
Customers wander in with their own tastes, and your job is to keep them happy while the shop grows from a mess into new floors and upgraded rooms. Leveling up lets you mine faster, dig deeper, and carry more loot home. There is also the small matter of those nightly earthquakes.
A gentle business to run together
This is low-pressure work with a clear payoff: fuller pockets, shinier stock, a shop that looks less like your uncle left it. The colorful pixel underground keeps things cheerful, and the loop of digging, crafting, and selling is built to be casual and rewarding rather than punishing.
You can run the whole operation alone at your own pace, tweaking your character as you go. Or you bring up to three friends into online co-op, split the digging and the counter work, and pool the profits. One person minds the picky customers while the rest argue over who gets to drive the truck.
What else should cozy fans know?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. You can rebuild the shop alone at your own pace, handling the mining, crafting, and customers yourself. Co-op for up to four people is there when you want company, not a requirement.
What do you actually make in the shop?
Jewelry. You turn what you dig up into rings, necklaces, and other sparkly goods, adding rare gemstones before putting them on the shelves for the night's customers.
What can you upgrade?
Quite a lot: your mechs, truck, and character for better mining trips, plus the shop itself with new floors and room upgrades as your reputation and profits grow.
