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Short-session mining · iPhone & iPad

Pickaxe Legends

Start a run against the clock. Drag one mining circle across a board of rock. Come back up with ingots, and spend them before the next vein opens.

  • Free
  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
  • English & French
Coming to the App Store

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Requires iOS 15 · iPhone and iPad

Move the pointer across the rock

One vein, one run

There is no campaign to grind and no session to leave running. A vein is a few minutes long, and it ends when the clock does.

The run

You drag a single mining circle. Every rock it covers takes a hit, and a hard rock takes more than one. Nothing else is asked of your hands.

The vein

Each vein is a board generated on the spot, and the further down the numbers go, the rarer what sits in it. No two runs hand you the same rock.

Between runs

Ingots buy skills, pickaxes and artifacts. Fossils come out of the rock on their own — and they are the only place a unique pickaxe ever comes from.

Ten ores, ten currencies

There is no smelting step: one rock mined is one ingot of the ore it held. Each ore is its own currency, so what you can afford says exactly where you have been digging.

Eleven pickaxes, one true source

The Forge crafts four plain pickaxes for ingots. The other seven only ever come out of a fossil — never bought, never guaranteed.

Some veins end in a boss

Past a certain depth, a vein occasionally chains into a tougher rock with a fight of its own — break its weak point before the clock runs out.

Four augments, one shop between runs

A second shop unlocks as you go — four upgrades, each its own mechanic.

In the rock

Portrait, one thumb, no menus in the way.

Nothing to buy, now or later

Pickaxe Legends is free. It shows no ads, sells nothing inside itself, and asks for no account. It is one person's game, and this is the whole of it.

Coming to the App Store

Requires iOS 15 · iPhone and iPad