Idle Mining Empire

Idle Mining Empire starts you with a single manually-worked shaft and slowly automates every part of it, miners, haulers, processing, until the business runs itself and your job shifts from clicking to deciding which upgrade actually moves the profit needle next.

Because early manual clicking gets outpaced quickly by automation, reinvesting income into hiring and automation upgrades rather than clicking through stages by hand tends to compound faster over a session. Checking in periodically to reinvest banked profit rather than watching continuously suits the game's pacing better, since production continues whether or not the tab is in focus. Digging Master covers similar mining progression with hands-on excavation instead of idle automation.