Auto Drill: Galaxy

What the idle mining game involves

Auto Drill: Galaxy is a mobile idle game about mining planets with a ship that does most of the work itself. The ship orbits, picks out the nearest block and fires at it without input from you. The developer lists it in the Strategy category.

You can leave the ship running and come back to the loot, or switch to the joystick and steer it into the fight yourself. Both modes run on the same planets, so manual play and idle play feed the same progress.

Block types and clearing planets

Each planet is a grid of destructible blocks in four kinds: Normal, Gold, Energy and Explosive. Explosive blocks set off their neighbours in a chain, so one hit can clear a cluster at once.

Clearing every block on a planet warps the ship to a tougher sector. Each new sector has harder worlds to break through.

Weapons and the upgrade path

The game has 10 weapons, including the drill lance, mortar, chain arc and orbiting saw. You unlock and upgrade them over time, and each new unlock is listed as stronger than the last.

Upgrades add permanent damage multipliers, so the path you pick affects how the ship performs later. The developer advises choosing that path with care.

Skill rolls, fusing and gear

Skills are obtained by rolling for them. Duplicate skills fuse into higher rarity tiers: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary. Equipped skills give extra damage, income multipliers and block transmutation.

Gear is a separate layer. Hulls, Reactor Cores and Engines can be equipped and levelled up by salvaging spare items.

Progression across repeated runs

Permanent unlocks and upgrades carry over from run to run, so progress made in one run stays available in the next. The game is built around clearing planets, advancing sectors and facing tougher worlds over time.