Gold Mining Simulator

I really like the game play and how you have to connect so many things but id love tho this game was multiplayer.

Pros:
- Fun game mechanics
- Relaxing
- Satisfying

Cons:
- No multiplayer
- Kinda lonely game-play
- No NPC (Would not count if there was multiplayer)

It a fun game i like it has some bugs but the mining is fun i love it

i mean its alright, looking forward to the second one

It is a perfect balance of feeling like you are making so much progress but then being quickly humbled lol. It is somehow relaxing but stressful at the same time. Cant wait for a #2 to come out!

This game is a solid proof of concept, graphics aren't the best and this would be forgivable if it ran half as well as My Summer Car with similar graphics quality, however the intermittent game world loading is clunky. FPS dips are awful and I run a 4090 and 9800X3D. I gold pan IRL and this is the closest to the real thing you can get until GMS2 comes out. this game is better for simulating the whole mining process than Out of Ore which plays more like minecraft or planet crafter if thats what you're looking for and willing to put up with the bugs, if not stand by for the sequel.

Very realistic and diffuclt in the beginning,but when you get a hang of it, it is awesome and relaxing to play.Just watch the gold rush series and it will make you play this game

If you're a fan of realistic simulation games, Gold Mining Simulator is a must-play experience. This game offers an immersive and detailed look into the world of gold mining, allowing players to operate heavy machinery, refine techniques, and manage resources efficiently. The game does an excellent job of replicating real-world gold mining, from digging and panning to processing and selling gold. The attention to detail makes every step feel rewarding. You get to use different mining equipment, from excavators and bulldozers to wash plants and drilling rigs. Mastering these machines is both challenging and satisfying.

fun game alot of realistic qualities!

Tons of bugs and poor optimization.

Hope the NEW ONE is better this is so bad cables snap you fly 100 feet one way and your item fly's the other takes 4 hours to set up your mine just to mine worst set up ever played on any game ever no upgrades for pick ups other then skin nothing should take 10 hours real time to set up just to play so many glitches for a game that should be relaxing I'm going back to farming sim thought this would be cool to play do to the show.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME WAIT FOR NUMBER 2

This is a great game from 2017. It has a bit of a learning curve but pretty easy once you get going. It's in need of a 2025 upgrade and multi-player but that's what we are getting with Gold Mining simulator 2. This is always on sale and the DLCs are worth it.

This game will require a grind so if you expect to have millions of dollars after one cleanout, you might want to go play something else. It's pretty much everything you could ask for in a gold mining simulator, minus some extra help from your friends!

Trying to upgrade from a tier 3 to tier 4 wash plant has me ready to quit the game entirely.
All that time and effort just to have the "strongest cables" constantly snap like twine while trying to move around all the other pieces just remove a shaker, trommel and two jigs AND then haul in the new stuff and reconnect it all isn't worth it. Should have a sell or reset button like the vehicles do. Upgrading should be an exciting mechanic. Not one that is so arduous and touchy that you don't even want to play because you loathe the idea. FFS Devs.. What an oversight.

I just can't believe that I paid money for this game. I like games that are a little realistic, but this is on another level—you need to go through 20 steps just to pick up a bucket! And why do I have to drive for 6 minutes every time I want to buy or sell something? Unbelievable. Plus, the bugs and graphic glitches make it even worse.

i recommend this to the ppl with no live 4/10

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH my god this game is so good i have decided to set up a gold mining company and annexed my neighbours pond to pan for gold. Brillant game looking forward to playing this game for a long time to come.

very fun i was playing for 20 hours and didnt notice i would recomend mini machines and orange beast dlc s

Me personally i would say it is a very good game you are out in Alaska you can have it to where you can have everything $1 but you need to be on beginer. but overall it is a very good game for starting from scratch and build up.

Wish I never found and spent money on it. Poorly made game, waste of time and money.

graphics look like cod 1 even on ultra, tutorial broken all to hell, would be fun if the tutorial missions didn't get stuck and stop me from progressing, im not a gold miner IRL, idk how these machines work, i need a functioning tutorial AT LEAST

game still sux can't even start the P.O.S. pickup to get going !!!!!have no time for this game, going back to farm sim, WHERE EVERYTHING WORKS AND YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THE EQUIPMENT. THIS IS WHY I QUIT THIS GAME BEFORE..TOOOOOOOOO MUCH BS

great game i really like it i grew up around big machines on a coal mine so i really like it i have alwaysloved heavy equitment always will also has some cool machine skins for caterpillar would recomend

it is ok, but the eqipments mechanics and the way they are handling different terrain is totally dogshit. i almost threw my mouse into the screen because i got stuck i some pebbles for an hour. the only thing drivable is the starter car.

this game overall is good, but for beginner is quiet hard, because lack of hint what things must to do

Tedious and not very fun. Needs massive QOL changes to be at all fun.

i love the idea of this game but, would be better to have a mutiplayer

realy fun to play, even though its a little grindy and kinda hard to run for my laptop. (I have to say i miss the game being called "gold rush: the game" ): )

I hit play and was overwhelmed and exited. didn't even try it. This is not user friendly.

Had the sudden urge to play Gold Rush after 7 years, learned it's now Gold Mining Simulator, installed it, played it for half an hour and voila, still the same shit as 7 years ago.
Graphics look like CoD 1, not on lowest settings but on ultra, gameplay is still janky and repetitive which is not up my alley and I love Factorio, and bugs got better but it still has them: it went from getting your pickup stuck and reaching 7.7 million km/h (look in my screenshots, shit was whacky) down to put stuff X in Y and X cant go into Y, but its still anoying.
So in short: get yourself the series for the same prize and have more fun laying on the couch watching that

Very good game. Definitely needs better optimization, but overall the game is solid and simply enjoyable. Also, the premium downloadable content in my opinion is good and priced fairly.

The gameplay is great, graphics are decent only issue is preformance.

Game is complicated and graphics are very choppy, even with lowered video settings

Overall enjoy playing the game. Ones you get the hang of it there is hours of things to do.
On recorded I've got 112 hours on the game and still play.

This game is still buggy not fully complete and the developers have announced gold mining simulator 2 another Crappy game dev....

I have spent many hours on this game and it never gets old! The level of detail is impeccable. This is as close to real life as you can get. I am interested to see how this goes under the new management and team and I'm really looking forward to what they bring to this game moving forward.

i think its a fun game just wished it was coop lot to do for one person

My first PC didn't run it, had to wait to play it.
It is very complex and for some people it is really good but for me, I prefer the first stages and to end my gameplay there.

Very fun alot of things you can do in this game and its in depth like the tv show. Cons the city is kinda dead its just you out there it gets kinda spooky. Great game other then that.

its a good game and its pretty fun my only complaint is workers well dont work they function like perk cards and are generally a waste imo i get that perks can be useful but when i see worker in a game i think automation which was a pretty big let down that it wasnt available even if it was just when you slept in game

I enjoy this game, because there aren't many games like it out there. There are some, I know, but not a lot. That being said. This game is a buggy mess. I just bought the Orange Beast DLC yesterday to complete the set. Since I installed it I've had the following things happen, that never happened before. I'm playing the leaderboards.

1 - I dropped a full can of fuel while trying to refuel my diesel water pump, and it fell through the ground. Out a jerry can and the fuel inside (which isn't cheap on day 1 of a fresh game}, and have to make a trip to town because now i have no water supply to run my hog pan.

2 - I had a stack of 20 empty buckets left next to my hogpan. I fill buckets from my hogpan all day and process it at night. I loaded last nights save this morning and every one of my buckets was gone. $200 worth of buckets and a trip to the store later i finally got back to work.

3 - I rented the drill yesterday to probe my parcel, and about 1/4 through i checked my gold map, and there was nothing recorded from the drill. Not 1 square.

4 - I decided to try the drill again today. I rented it. Transported it. Bought a replacement drill bit for when it breaks. Drive back to my claim. No drill machine. I checked every inch of my claim. I pressed the [ and ] keys, which quick move you to the next vehicle. Drill machine doesn't exist. I went back to the machine shop to see if it was there. Nope. Out like $8000ish and have nothing to show for it what-so-ever.

I have to ask, what is going on? Are leaderboard games buggy, or disallow drilling or something? I haven't tried non leaderboard since getting the Orange Beast DLC, am I in for more of this? Did the last update take the game a step backward? I don't understand, but it's really game breaking when these things happen. And all of the above happened with the same save game. All this time and i'm left with basically nothing for my effort because the game is taking everything away from me. I have 128 hours into this game so far, and have wishlisted GMS2. But if this is what the game has become, I'm soon walking away and cutting my losses. It's just not worth the time and effort to get screwed at every possible turn.

game has its moments but u can see that the new developers are bringing what the people asked for and bringing out new dlc's game play is addictive.

I enjoy this game so much I had to get the pc version after playing about 100 hours on my xbox lol can not wait for part 2!!

I had heard many good things about the game, so I bought it during a sale. Unfortunately, I didn’t get around to playing it until about a month later.
The game looks nothing like the pictures. I thought it was an issue with my settings, but even after spending over an hour trying, I couldn’t get it to look like the videos I’d seen. I was very disappointed.
The next issue was that even though I was getting around 100 frames per second, the game jittered while walking, and every 100 meters, it froze to load the next zone. It’s such a promising game, but it feels unplayable for me. The worst part is that I couldn’t even refund it because I’d purchased it more than two weeks ago. It's frustrating to see such a promising game get worse with each update.

discovery really dropped out of this game huh absolutely for the best the game is trash now bye bye gold rush the game o7 and well go away gold mining simulator

It runs a bit rough on my system, and I get annoyed by it always loading. However, it has fun game play and physics, so I look past all that. I wish there were actual ai or npc's on the map. It feels weird being the ONLY person in this mining town. I can look past all the weird or annoying things because it is a really fun game. Its quite a bit deeper than I thought and will entertain you for quite some time. I recommend giving it a shot. I will for sure be playing the 2nd one when it comes out, and I already have a group set up for the multiplayer.

tbh if it was me id dump this game in the can and remake it on a new engine like seriously its awful

- load zones like you're playing a game from 2004 ie Postal 2

- awful pop-in objects within just a few metres away like honestly come on cyberpunk 2077 had a worse launch than this and it still had decent rendering of distant LODs

- outdated driving physics with god awful suspension dampening ect

- outdated tutorial on a way higher gold collection stage like change it to stage 2 with a few cheaper items from stage 3 so it blends better with the actual intro

save yourself the hassle of tryna fix the mess the OG devs left it in and make it a new experience

vehicle mechanics and controls

Bought this in 2017
Now 2025 and nothing has changed. Still full of bugs, awful performance.
what the fuck have they been doing for 8 years

After playing. The game the idea of it is there. But there are some things that are just goofy and often frustrating. Such as the equipment most notably the tracked vehicles having no engine power. Slight hills will drop their speed to less than 1 mph. Some animations for the trailers are backwards. The support leg should extend when the trailer is detached from a vehicle and retrach after being attached to a vehicle. Game also has issues with frame rate drops if stored on a regular hard disk drive. The Equipment DLC packs though not required to enjoy the game do add some to the game.

This is probably the worst game that I actually find enjoyable and keep coming back to. Really wish there was more development on the game, rather than constant focus on leader boards. And please fix the damn loading times between map zones.

a little buggy, graphics are definitely not 2025, but the game play is excellent and it helps me to just chill out.

After 10hrs of playtime i had a full T3 setup. As soon as you get to T3 there are no more upgrades. The upgrade path after T3 is gated by pay2win / dlc.

the worst thing is that the base game excravator is filling my dump truck 5-6% per scoop. And then watching people with the DLC excravator scooping 20%.

the progress from T3 onwards felt meaningless to me without the DLCs. but i refuse to give the dev more money for now. if your 8 year old basegame feels like it forces you to spend more money it's not sitting well with me.