Gold and Goblins - Idle Games
Clicker Miner. Dig & Get Rich!
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Simulation
Languages
English
Thu Dec 18 2025
- New Mines opened: you can now explore as deep as Mine 159.
- Brand new Card and Mineshaft: collect even more gold with the Holystone!
- Bug fix: damage boost from Goblin King has been adjusted.
Become a mining tycoon in Gold and Goblins! This idle simulator challenges you to merge lower-level goblins into powerful mining teams to smash rocks and uncover hidden treasures. Plan your strategy to reach the deepest mines, collect special cards for bonuses, and participate in weekly events to grow your empire. It's an immersive experience that blends merging mechanics with classic idle tycoon gameplay.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Gold and Goblins is a unique hybrid that breathes fresh life into the idle genre by combining mining simulation with 'merge' mechanics. Instead of just clicking a screen, you're strategically merging goblins to increase their mining power and directing them to smash through rocks to uncover treasure. This added layer of strategy—deciding where to focus your goblins' efforts and when to combine them—makes the 'active' parts of the game much more engaging than its peers.
The progression is satisfyingly punctuated by special events and new mines, though the typical idle game wall does eventually appear, where progress slows significantly unless you manage your resources perfectly. The visual style is charming, with colorful animations and a fun 'gold rush' theme. While the ads for bonuses are present, the core loop of clearing a path to the next mine is addictive enough to keep you checking in multiple times a day. It’s a great 'coffee break' game with more depth than you’d expect.
Features
Unique merge-and-mine gameplay mechanics
Over 150 unique mines to explore and conquer
Special limited-time events with exclusive rewards
Card collection system for powerful goblin bonuses
Upcoming Events
Tips & Walkthrough
Don't just clear every rock. Focus your goblins on the quickest path to the 'Checkpoint' or 'Mineshaft' to increase your gold-per-second before going back for secondary treasures.
Gameplays
Always merge your goblins as soon as possible. A single level 5 goblin is significantly faster and more efficient at breaking high-level rocks than several lower-level ones.
Screenshot
Q&A
The Holystone is a late-game feature that introduces a new card and mineshaft, allowing players to collect even more gold in deeper levels.
Ratings & Reviews
It needs a little work.
Wed Nov 01 2023 ThatcoolguyrobLet me start by saying, this is by far and above the best idle game on the AppStore to date - but, it needs work. But you have to buy the ad removal because it’s unplayable with ads. Too much, too often. As it stands, this is the biggest problem with an otherwise great game. The progression tapers off, you’ll find yourself on the same mineshaft for 3-5 days if you don’t spent money. The reason for this is because like every other game like it, the currency grows in magnitudes. So you’re in the thousands, then the hundreds of thousands, then millions, billions, trillions and then, AA, AB, AC, AD, so on and so forth - to where I’m currently at, AO. Now, that doesn’t seem like too much of a problem, but as you progress through the mines, the cost of goblins and mine upgrades grows SIGNIFICANTLY - and you need to upgrade your Mines with Cards and Elixir. I’m sat on thousands upon thousands of cards, but the Elixir is IMPOSSIBLE to get. It doesn’t ramp up with the mines and currency, so you’re looking at extracting around 100 elixir from doing something, but you need 24,000 to upgrade a mine shaft (that gathers gold for you to spend). The problem here is you have like 30 different mine types, signified by a Gem. I’m now only able to upgrade mines if I spend a ton of money on elixir, or wait over a month of playing, to ramp up the elixir just to upgrade one of those thirty mineshafts. It really does need fixing, because it absolutely kills the potential of this great idle game.
Redundant, repetitious, repeating, ….
Sun Apr 14 2024 kookie.krumsAs much s I liked this game in the beginning, I have played it long enough to realize I’m spinning my wheels. I get no where and after I finally get no where, it time to start over again. Sound fun to you? Me neither!! I’ve been trying to reach the levels shown in the ad for quite some time now, but have yet to get anywhere near that. I don’t think that level exist. I think it’s just an enticing ad to draw us in and the developers watch us beating our heads against the wall trying to advance. And when we don’t advance, they watch us dig deeper into or pockets to buy the magic wand that advances us to a higher level that really don’t exist. But we keep falling for it and the developers keep repeating the same old thing to all of us. Have you ever noticed their responses are a blanket that covers all complaints and they are always working on changes that NEVER happen. Will the real suckers please stand up! DEVELOPERS: Stop throwing blanket on our complaints and give us real honest answers. And is it necessary for us to have to sit through the same stupid game ads every time we do anything? Do you really need that many ads playing along with the millions buying power-up too?
Meh!
Sun May 19 2024 SaveTheSharks!DON’T WASTE TIME OR MONEY! First off the game works well. No glitches, smooth play, smooth transition between regular game and events and the graphics are on point. Initially I invested money into the game because after all who doesn’t want to see a good game get better? My low rating is because I keep getting cards for upgrades that I have already reached maximum level. I sent a message to the support team and was assured those cards would be needed in the future but that future’s future has come and passed and still no update. My point is that after a decent financial investment from me and a lot of time playing I continue to get low level upgrade cards for upgrades I have already reached maximum level on. Instead of rewarding players at higher levels for their investment into the game the game recycles the same low level upgrades. There isn’t even a tally of how many cards I have earned for those maxed out upgrades that I will use in the “future”. I believe in fair play and that includes the developers properly awarding rewards based on advancement in the game. I wouldn’t invest much time or money into this game if you’re a new player and I certainly won’t be spending much of either on the game.
Non-existent support
Sat Jul 02 2022 Ziggy DreambornSo I made an accidental purchase a few days ago by misclicking on the option to purchase the deal on an event. Although I have no issue buying things in games (this game, for example, I purchased the ad free playing), but I didn’t have a use for the event deal. I immediately sent a request to the developers asking for a refund. Now, here it is…. Several days later with zero response. Even if they told me that a refund couldn’t be issued for whatever reason, fine…. But receiving whatever answer they decided on would have been better than being flat out ignored. The game itself is a decent idle game, with the option to actively play, although it gets insanely repetitive after a fairly short time. For the game itself, I give it 4 stars, but due to being completely ignored when asking for support, you lose a couple of stars. Ignoring me is a sure fire way to get your game uninstalled permanently, effectively costing you any chance of me ever spending money on your game. Although I made an accidental purchase, it’s not like I wouldn’t have purchased something else at some point. But that possibility has just vanished for you. Keep that 5 bucks. It’s the last you’re getting from me. And there’s no need to respond to my review. I won’t be back to see it if you do. I have no interest in hearing what you have to say. You blew that chance. I guarantee you that I’m not the only person who would be annoyed by being ignored, and it’s not like I left this review 2 days later. It’s been well over 2 weeks. You’ve had ample time to respond to my ticket. You just lost a player who would have quite likely spent some more money on your game in the future. Do better.
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Tue Dec 06 2022 the roblox account defenderThe nerve of some people to make not just one ad, but multiple ads over 30 seconds. Advertising the same thing over and over isn't really a good selling point and quite frankly it makes the player want to download the game much less. When presented with a goal of getting to the end of not only a 45 second ad, but an entire minute advertisement and then having to wait *15 additional seconds* and doing nothing. Is this really supposed to make someone download the game? My main critique of the game is that at the surface, it appears to be just another idle game. However, offline idle games with no comp tend to be just a wee bit worse than online idle games. I'm glad to see this game move in another right direction. Anyway, no critique to the actual game, but the ads are horrendous. Mobile games are usually much worse so credit is due there. None of this is actually meant to be said about the game, but I oly downloaded it to complain about the strange advertisements. At least it isn't Evertale-level of ads. Actually, it's still false advertising as far as the beginning of the game goes. The whole concept of it being an idle game but a player controlling footage in the (did I mention multiple yet?) ads is already incorrect. I hope this review helps 6•12•22
not worth the effort honestly
Sun Feb 04 2024 AlwoffordI want to share my honest review of a game that I recently played. Normally, I don't bother giving reviews as most games are just cash grabs, but this one left a bad taste in my mouth. The game is completely backwards in its concept. The goblins only level up one at a time, so even if you have a level 10 or 11, upgrading will only take you to level 11 or 12. And to top it off, the weekly events require players to level up quickly to get rewards, which is impossible without spending money. I tried to play fair and spent some money to give the game a fair chance, but it's just not worth it. To achieve first place in the weekly events, you need to spend $50-$60 every two days. The game is designed to push players to spend money. It's not worth your time or energy as it doesn't make sense. You can only use 2-3 goblins at a time, and the mines in the game are too small. Even at level 15-16, I couldn't utilize the game fully. I just wanted to share my honest review to help other players avoid this game. It's not worth your time or money. If you're looking for a game to enjoy and have fun, this is not it.
There is no upgrading bulldozer. There’s only picking away rocks that takes 30 seconds or more.
Sat Jun 07 2025 CavemancoloradoThe mini game in the video is a bulldozer getting to upgrade and then getting a bigger bulldozer so getting more more stuff out of a pile to upgrade and the actual game is you just pick away at Roxy you don’t get to do anything and all the bonuses that you earned don’t carry over and then you get a little tiny thing that crush bonus game is the same and you crushed the rocks and the bonuses you get don’t help you with all or carry on into the next level and money that it takes to do things is hundreds of millions, but it’s just the same thing with like over and over again and it takes longer longer therefore it’s simply the same thing every level and the bonus game is also the same. Every time is not near as the videos that are Clickbait because they never have anything to do with the game that you see in the video where the tractor that scoops all the money into the collector, which is the game I would like to play that looks at a mini game at least I’m not having to level up my castle 30 times like everything else. I usually play just to get to a mini game.
Deceptive Practices Hurt Players
Wed Sep 13 2023 RealRealmAs others have noted, the gameplay is not as advertised as it is a top down idle game with very different graphics than shown in ads. That being said, I still found it to be a fun game to kill time periodically. The reason for the low star is the deliberately deceptive game mechanic surrounding in-game events. The event leaderboard is intentionally vague so you do not know how many points other players have. If you secure a top three spot (which is only possible by spending actual money for most events), you will have no way of knowing if the person behind you is closing in or if you have a reasonable chance at securing the top spot. This results in increased spending to maintain positions that may not even be necessary or to try to secure positions that would actually require significant spending ($100+ easily) to “catch up.” You also have no way of knowing if you are up against actual players versus bots created to drive spending. Efforts to find out more specific information on the leaderboard dynamic lead to evasive answers. Support has taken the position that providing specific information on the leaderboard is somehow “unfair” to players. Incredibly scammy practices.
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