Gold Rush: The Game Reviews

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!

Ever wanted to ruin pristine landscapes for shiny rocks without going to jail? Then boy, do I have a simulator for you. Gold Mining Simulator is that weirdly relaxing blend of digging, driving, and desperately hoping the gold scanner isn’t lying again. You’ll shovel dirt, rinse gravel, run machines, and question your life choices after spending 45 minutes lining up a sluice box. The graphics are solid, the mechanics are surprisingly deep, and there’s something hypnotic about watching gold flakes swirl in the pan. Bonus points for the sheer satisfaction of finally finding a chunky nugget after hours of digital sweat. ✅ Feeds your inner prospector ✅ Machinery chaos = fun ✅ Legitimately educational if you ever want to mine in real life (why tho?) ❌ Your virtual bank account will cry. So will your patience. Final Verdict: 10/10 – Made me want to buy a pickup truck and scream “THAR’S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!”

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.

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.

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

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)

Very fun game it has its ups n dwns but so do all games but overall not bad

cool game, weird mechanics but good machine controls, missing multiplayer for sure!

This is a simple and relaxing game. Could use more detail. Would also like to see some underground mines and more mining areas. But it is still a great relaxing game.

Oh... close to 500hours already? Man time sure flies by, eh? Okay. Time to review this old hunkajunk. If you want to play a game to relax and enjoy digging up dirt, you won't find anything better. Neither older nor younger than this game. Period. Buuuuuut, let's hop into our usual process: We start with Graphics! Does it look breathtaking and stunning? Weeeell... yes, in a sense it does. If you expect a title this old to be on par with current gen GPU eyecandy, it sure will take away your breath while you gasp in horror. For real, way back when it released, it looked pretty decent and even today it looks acceptable. Sure, you see that it's old but so what? It IS an old game. You play minecraft and enjoy looking at clunky cubes but complain over seeing edges in another game? Get lost, now will ya. For how old it is it gets a solid 3/5 Stars in this department. Next... next... Sound! Do you love big machines? Yes? Well, you will enjoy them good over here. Turning the excavator, digging up the dirt, scraping the ground with the teeth of it's bucket, it is all well enough designed to keep you diggin on with glee. Ambient sounds are okayish, too. The sounds of the working washplants and water are excellent, albeit too loud if you're too close to them while working. Well, one could argue "Well, duh! Standing next to a jackhammer IS loud, no?" and indeed, it is a minor grape mostly due to dreaded realism! haha! didn't see that one coming in a simulator. taking the age into account again... 4/5 Stars. Off we go tooooo GAMEPLAY!!! I have a glas of diiiirt! I have a glas of diiiirt! Jack would jump in endless joy for sure. The Dirtmechanics are top notch. There are a few problems with how the different layers of dirt work if you dig from the ground up and I dunno if the gripes with that ever got fixed, but overall despite loosing some of the gold because of it, terrain deformation, dirt transport etc all are god damn good. I mean... I shovelled megatons of dirt for almost 500 hours by now so trust me, It either is god damn marverllous or I'm a bonafide Masochist. Or both? You'll never know *grin* Besides playing around with dirt... well... that's it. It is a dig around in dirt and get Gold Simulator. There's nothing else to simulate. The Machines work, the mechanics how the machines work are implemented well and albeit a tad bit tedious at times, the process of refining your paydirt into a sellable Goldbar over several Steps in between still feels rewarding after millions of times doing it. Yupp, I'm doing it. Stop screaming, I'm doing it! 5/5 Stars! For what it claims to be and do, no other game reached a comparable good feeling about it. Yet! Last but not least: BUGSSSSSSSS! *insert meme here* Let's be honest folks. Yes, the game is plagued by some bugs and those are like cockroaches. Is it bad for a several years old game to have bugs since ancient times plagueing it? yes. But, to it's defense, the game went through several hands by now. The new Devs try their best to mitigate what they can in a spaghetti code not even the original writer ever wanted to touch again after the game made it into a working version somehow. So... I give the new Devs 3/5 Stars for their effort to straddle through this code swamp they didn't even produced and bring some QoL and Bugfixes as best they can, while working on the Successor with hopefully better maintained code and features. Where does that leave us overall? Well, The game is the best gold mining simulator out there. No pun intended. It is old, clunky and not without bugs even after all its years in existence, but if you love mining, it is the undefeated King in its field. We settle at not fully 4/5 Stars. It is almost constant in a sale nowadays so go and get it. If you encounter a bug, shrug it off. Happens and compared to current AAA Games, this old clunker is way less bugridden, then those abominations the big publishers call Releases anyways.