Solar System Mining
Solar System Mining
Drill into planets, automate extraction across entire star systems, and turn a tiny orbital mining outfit into an interstellar resource empire.
About the game
Solar System Mining is a space-themed incremental mining game where every celestial body is its own little production puzzle. Start on Earth, unlock new planets and moons, invest in better tools, roll out auto-miners, and push deeper through the tech tree until you are harvesting entire systems.
What begins as hands-on clicking grows into a network of automated extraction hubs, rare-mineral routes, tech upgrades, prestige jumps, and late-game megastructures.
Features
- Mine planets, moons, and stars across multiple star systems
- Unlock new bodies with mineral requirements and propulsion tech
- Upgrade manual mining and body-specific auto-miners
- Research across Mining, Travel, and Automation tech branches
- Build toward endgame infrastructure and megastructures
- Chase achievements, events, missions, markets, and meta progression
- Explore a clean retro-sci-fi presentation built entirely in Godot
Why play
- Starts fast and readable, then opens into a bigger strategic economy
- Every new body changes your mineral mix and progression priorities
- Automation feels meaningful because each world develops differently
- The jump from local mining to interstellar expansion gives the game a strong sense of scale
Controls
Left Click: mine / interactMouse Wheel: zoom cameraEsc: open options / release focusT: open tech tree
Status
In active development. Expect balancing changes, more polish, and more content as the project grows.
Download
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Development log
- Bug fixes update - 2026-07-2711 hours ago
- Bug fixes update - 2026-07-261 day ago
Comments
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I have trouble clicking on a planet/moon to select it when everything is constantly moving. It's very frustrating when you have to return to a moon to upgrade it and don't know which one it is. Need an easier way to cycle through planets/moons within a solar system without being punished for a zoom out for missing the whack a mole game. This game feels more like annoying whack-a-mole than an idle game.
So much AI in the layout and interface.
And gameplay for that matter
Yes, you are right but it's early in development. Grapghics are temporarly, I could use ChatGPT to generate something better but I decided they should be simple for now and I will replace them with final ones when te core game loop will be finalized.
I'll check back in a few months.
The thing you're supposed to hit first (Mine) should be the biggest button, or on the top. It was buried, and I took about 30 seconds trying to find that after trying to figure out where to mine. (Buy auto miner was bigger font and I clicked those first.)
Your tutorial should say "Click on Earth", not "Click any planet or moon". All other planets and moons were locked.
Thanks, both fixed! Mine is now the biggest button and sits right at the top of the panel (above the auto-miner), so it's the first thing you see. And the opening tutorial now says "Click on Earth" instead of the generic prompt.
Really appreciate the clear feedback! Thank you!
how do i mount a artifact
On artifact list choose one, click and on right side you should have mount option, after clicking it you will need to choose planet/moon
It was fun while it lasted. And then it crashed:
On one of later systems it's impossible to unlock Pulsarium. Just after unlocking Gravitite
Sorry to hear that, I will check resource progression and fix it soon!
It's fixed in new version!
great game! had a lot of fun with it
tip: sometimes if resources are gliched this can be fixed by going to the main menu and back in, One time my voidite purchases didnt register but in the end found a planet that had some so manually clicked it and that worked, also there is buy but no sell feature?
game crashed three times but autosave were pretty reliable
Warning Spoilers: I assume there's no ending? I went through three cycles and unlocked all the prestige buffs, there wasnt a plot earlier in the game so a bit odd it adds a reincarnation type deal, but quite common in idle games
Thanks so much for playing, and for the thoughtful feedback. I'm really glad you had fun with the game.
I really appreciate you pointing out the glitches and the crashes. That’s all very helpful feedback. The game is still in development and actively evolving, so reports like this really help us improve it, and we’ll definitely keep working on fixing these issues.
And yes, that’s very fair feedback about the late-game progression and the lack of a clear ending. The reincarnation-style loop and overall structure are still being developed, so it’s very useful to hear how that felt.
Thanks again for taking the time to write this up.