Gold and Goblins is a casual idle-simulation game for mobile where players merge goblin units to mine resources and expand their empire.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#192
Simulation · free
Sentiment
4.0
491k reviews
Nemesis
Idle Miner Tycoon: Gold digger
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this game for low-stakes, incremental progression that provides a relaxing diversion during short daily sessions.
For Casual mobile gamers who enjoy idle simulation, resource management, and incremental progression loops.
What does it look like?
Key features
Combine lower-level goblin units to create higher-level, more efficient diggers
Automated gold and gem production while the app is closed or in the background
Time-limited challenges offering exclusive rewards and faster progression
Unlock and upgrade cards to provide permanent bonuses to goblin mining speed and efficiency
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on IAP for progression acceleration and ad-supported gameplay for non-paying users.
Velocity
Dormant developmentnew contentShow more...
The app has not received a new build in approximately 5 months, falling well below the threshold for active development. With only one version provided in the history, there is no evidence of a recurring release cadence. The lack of updates suggests the app has entered a zombie state, as no new features or maintenance patches have been deployed since late 2025.
Who built it?
AppQuantum Publishing
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What do users think recently?
Users report: Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate simple and relaxing gameplay loop provides a low stress diversion for casual daily play sessions, but report aggressive false advertising misrepresents the actual game mechanics to drive initial downloads from store pages.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Simple and relaxing gameplay loop provides a low stress diversion for casual daily play sessions
- Users report: Aggressive false advertising misrepresents the actual game mechanics to drive initial downloads from store pages
50 of 50 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Gold and Goblins: Mining Games
How's the Simulation market?
Gold and Goblins maintains a strong global footprint, holding top-10 grossing positions in the Simulation category across multiple regions including Norway and Sweden. The gap between its high grossing rank and the negative sentiment trend suggests that current revenue is driven by early-funnel conversion rather than long-term player satisfaction.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Kolibri Games GmbH
This is the definitive market leader in the idle mining genre, commanding a massive user base and long-term retention data that dwarfs all other competitors.
- Features a highly mature live-ops calendar with recurring seasonal events that drive consistent long-term player engagement.
- Offers a vastly more complex multi-mine management system compared to this app's simpler merge-focused gameplay loop.
- Maintains a sophisticated prestige and super-manager collection system that creates a deep, long-tail progression meta-game.
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Key takeaways for Gold and Goblins: Mining Games
Where is it heading?
The casual simulation market is consolidating around titles with higher live-ops frequency and transparent progression, leaving Gold and Goblins exposed. Without a shift toward gameplay-accurate marketing and technical stability, the current revenue trajectory will likely compress as the cost of acquiring new users outweighs the lifetime value of a churn-prone base.
- Users report: Persistent false advertising complaints drive high-churn, which erodes the long-term player base and damages brand equity.
- Technical instability in ad-reward systems prevents progression, which directly converts active players into negative reviewers.
The SWOT
- Merge-mechanic inventory management forces active session engagement
- Goblin-mining aesthetic differentiates from industrial tycoon clones
- Implement clearer in-game tutorials to reduce churn
- Expand B2B partnerships for cross-promotion
Next best moves
Audit ad-reward infrastructure because broken ad-reward systems are a top-3 complaint → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
Users report: The game's reliance on misleading ads…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Prestige system (available in Idle Miner Tycoon but missing here) +1
Since the last report: Users report: The report identifies a transition into a zombie development state and a significant decline in user sentiment driven by misleading marketing and technical instability.
Bottom line
Users report: Gold and Goblins holds its category lead through accessible merge mechanics but bleeds players due to misleading acquisition and technical instability, so revenue growth hinges on aligning marketing with gameplay and fixing the ad-reward loop.
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