EternaMine

Eternamine, Seyloj's follow-up to the beloved browser game Haste-Miner 2, opens with a pickaxe, a grid of blocks and a backpack that is always almost full. Two years of steady updates later it has grown into one of the cozier deep-grind incrementals on Steam: multiple mine types, a forge economy that rewards patience, combat depths for the brave, and a Rebirth loop that turns every wall you hit into the reason the next run is faster. It is a passion project that treats its small community well, and it plays like exactly that.

What the loop feels like

You swing, blocks shatter, and the backpack fills with ore you cannot wait to sell. That's Eternamine.

You surface, cash out, upgrade the pickaxe, and drop back down slightly faster than before. That's Eternamine.

A Rebirth strips your gear and artifacts, hands you permanent tokens, and the same mine collapses under you at ten times the pace. That's Eternamine.

Under the hood

The mines themselves are the level design. Standard mines refill periodically and ease you into the rhythm. Deep mines stretch infinitely downward, the ores improving with depth, with hidden treasures whispered about at the bottom. Dark mines are the magical, gated tier, where mining gives way to real PvE combat. The Forge is the economy's secret engine: refining raw ore multiplies payouts dramatically, veterans report refined high-tier materials selling for up to ten times the raw price, and early perks that boost refinement success are the community's first recommendation.

Escalation is satisfyingly physical. Upgrades eventually let you mine entire rows in one swing, then deploy a nuke that clears whole sections of a mine at once, which is exactly the kind of absurdity a mining incremental owes its players. When progression slows, Rebirth trades your collected deep-mine artifacts and basic stats for permanent upgrade tokens, restarting the climb from a much higher floor. Two years of updates have layered on public profiles, custom keybinds, player skins, pets, cosmetics and expanded Dark Mine combat modes, alongside multiple save files and difficulty settings.

Where it stumbles

It is a niche loop wearing its niche proudly: if breaking blocks does not hypnotize you in the first hour, nothing later will. Transitional phases between major upgrade tiers can drag, with progression briefly stalling before the next skill tree milestone lands. And for all its growth, it remains a compact indie project; players arriving from the genre's heaviest hitters will notice the smaller scope of its systems and its endgame.

Playing it today

A modest one-time purchase on Steam, Windows, with full controller support, Steam Trading Cards and cloud saves. Actively maintained, with a major update landing in its second year. No mobile release was verified.

The verdict

The best kind of sequel: takes a browser classic's hypnotic dig-sell-upgrade loop and gives it a home, a forge and a ceiling high enough to chase for weeks. If you would rather swing with friends than solo, ClickRaid2 turns the same clicker DNA into a party game.