Mining Rush — Play Free Online

Mining Rush is a clicker game with a building twist. You dig minerals out of the ground, sell them for money, and spend that money on better mining tools. The catch that sets it apart from a plain clicker is that mining also yields construction materials, and those go into building up your own city.

It is a very different pace from the jumping and bouncing games that fill most of Doodle Jump. Nothing here punishes a missed tap or a bad landing; the fun is in watching numbers climb and deciding what to upgrade next. It suits a few relaxed minutes between rounds of something faster, or a longer idle-style session when you want to see how far a city can grow. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.

The older catalogue listing filed this page under endless runners. The game itself is a mining and city-building clicker, so expect to manage resources rather than dodge obstacles.

How to play

On a computer, the arrow keys or WASD move you around and the mouse does the aiming and selecting. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead. Menus for tools and buildings are operated with the mouse or a tap.

A typical loop looks like this:

1. Mine minerals to collect them.
2. Sell what you have gathered to earn money.
3. Buy better mining tools so each trip is more productive.
4. Use the construction materials you pick up to build structures in your city.

Tips

• Early on, put money into tools before anything else. A better tool speeds up every later round of mining, so the benefit compounds.
• Check what a purchase actually improves before you pay, and compare it with the other options on screen.
• Keep an eye on your construction materials so they do not pile up unused; the city side of the game is where they matter.
• Use the fullscreen button under the game if the buttons feel small, especially on a laptop.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want something with more action, Helix Jump has you guide a ball down a tower and Bird Jumper is a quick hopping game. For a puzzle-platformer with a bit of thinking, Fireboy and Watergirl asks two characters to cooperate. Bloons Tower Defense 2 is the nearest cousin here in spirit, since it also rewards spending your earnings wisely on upgrades. Doodle Jump itself is the opposite end of the spectrum: constant movement and no menus.

Mining Rush is a good fit if you like slow progress, simple controls and the satisfaction of a town that gets bigger each time you play.