ExoMiner

If you’ve ever stared at the stars and thought, “What if I could turn those into money?”, ExoMiner has your number. This space-themed idle tycoon game sends you off in a rusty mining rig and asks a simple question: how much profit can one person squeeze from the galaxy before bedtime?

Like the best idle games, ExoMiner feeds your lizard brain one crunchy upgrade loop at a time. Mine ore, refine ore, turn ore into shiny space tech, sell shiny space tech. Repeat. Before long, you’re less space explorer and more interstellar Medici, flipping futuristic widgets for cosmic stacks while your machines work overtime and your phone sleeps peacefully beside you.

Early progress hits like rocket fuel, relics flow freely, astronauts boost productivity, and you feel like Jeff Bezos in a hard sci-fi novel. But eventually, that slick momentum grinds down to a crawl. Progress slows. Relic drip slows. You eye that ad button like it owes you money.

Still, ExoMiner is charming in the way only a spreadsheet disguised as a game can be. The thrill isn’t in the visuals (which are fine), or the story (which is, generously, minimal), but in watching numbers go up while you do literally anything else. It’s glorified mining stocks for your idle thumb.

It may not push the genre forward, but ExoMiner knows its audience: folks who want to feel like they’re building an empire… while making a sandwich.

ExoMiner won’t change your life, but it might just scratch that deep, primal itch to optimize a galaxy into pure, beautiful profit.