Moose Miners

Moose Miners

Released May 2024

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

69% positive · 524 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Moose Miners launched on May 10, 2024 and has received two major post-launch content updates: the New Depths Update on December 2, 2024 (expanding the mining depth limit from 4,800 to 57,600, adding side saws, jet engines, buffer chests, quests, and major new upgrade systems), and the Deeper update on February 25, 2026 (expanding depth further to 691,200, adding more upgrade tiers, new processing steps, and quests). Feature patches and bug fixes continued through at least March 2026. The clearest signal about future plans comes from the developer's own June 15, 2025 post, which explicitly described the Deeper update as "the probably final content update for Moose Miners," adding that after it, there might be occasional bug fixes and minor quality-of-life improvements, but "likely no major new things." That post accurately predicted what came next: the Deeper update shipped in February 2026, followed only by a feature patch in March 2026 and a small cosmetic patch in June 2026. The June 16, 2026 announcement of Moose Builders — a new game from the same developer — is consistent with the developer's stated shift toward new projects. The June 17, 2026 patch explicitly describes itself as a small update "to celebrate the announcement of Moose Builders," adding only a visibility toggle and a promo banner. This is exactly the kind of minor quality-of-life work the developer said might continue after the final content update. No further major content has been announced for Moose Miners. The developer's own words from June 2025 — confirmed by the subsequent pattern of activity — indicate that the Deeper update on February 25, 2026 was the last major content release. The game is complete.
Evidence
The Deeper update shipped, delivering the major content expansion (depth limit raised to 691,200, new upgrade tiers, processing steps, quests) that the developer had described as the probable final content update.
news post · Feb 25, 2026 source content shipped
high
Developer explicitly states the next update will be 'the probably final content update for Moose Miners,' with only occasional bug fixes and QoL improvements expected afterward, as development focus shifts to new games.
news post · Jun 15, 2025 source development ending
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Lingon Studios
Achievements
80
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Mine and collect

The moose will mine and collect the gems for you. Just make sure they have the best gear possible to do a good job.

Process and sell

Build and upgrade grinders to process the gems and make them ready to be transported for sale.

Expand

Expand your operation. Build new railway to allow for collection deeper into the mine. Or hire new miners and upgrade their gear to mine more gems faster.

In Moose Miners there is no lose condition. Play actively and upgrade your miners and infrastructure as soon as you get the money from selling the gems, or let the miners mine while you do something else and come after a while and upgrade a bunch of things at once.

Features:

  • 19 different gem types appearing as the you mine deeper into the map, each new more valuable than the previous

  • A huge map with over 100 million gems to mine

  • Hire and upgrade miners to mine gems faster

  • Buy and upgrade grinders to process gems faster

  • Buy and upgrade rails and minecarts to deliver gems faster to your base

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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