The First Mine is a turn based building, strategy and puzzle game. You need to run a productive gold mine by placing, grouping and upgrading various resource tiles without being distracted by different tasks and random events.
General / Cinematic | Game Trailer
Gameplay | Gameplay Teaser
Screenshot #1
Screenshot #2
Screenshot #3
Screenshot #4
Screenshot #5
Screenshot #6
Screenshot #7
Screenshot #8
Screenshot #9
Screenshot #10
Screenshot #11
Screenshot #12

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Curator Review

Recommended
By LadiesGamers October 30

“Every now and then, I stumble across a game that feels like a clever board game that’s just been whisked onto a computer screen”

Download The First Mine Demo

Buy The First Mine

INTRODUCTORY OFFER! Offer ends November 13

-20%
$4.99
$3.99
 

About This Game

The First Mine is a turn based building, strategy and puzzle game. You need to run a productive gold mine with your population by placing, grouping and upgrading various resource tiles without being distracted by different tasks and random events.

  • Place, group and upgrade various tiles to collect resources

  • Run a productive mine with your population to mine gold

  • Don't let tasks and game events distract you

The goal of The First Mine is to mine as much gold as possible to achieve a high score at the end. There are different game sizes and difficulty levels to choose from, as well as several characters with unique traits for varied gameplay.

Each round you have to cleverly place and group a new random resource tile and upgrade your existing tiles as needed. Placing a new tile end the current round, mine gold in your mine and collect resources like wood, stone, wheat and fish.

To mine gold, you need people in your villages. To keep them, you need to provide enough wheat and fish each round. More people and a higher level increases the amount of gold produced per round. You need wood and stone to upgrade the level.

In order to increase your yield per round, you can observe different requirements and tasks when placing resource tiles. In addition, there are random game events like trade, raids or natural disasters that can influence the game in a positive or negative way.

What The First Mine offers:

  • Mix of strategy, building and puzzle mechanics

  • Different tasks and simple resource management

  • Random game events like trade, raids or natural disasters

  • Achievements, highscores and leaderboards

What The First Mine does not offer:

  • 4X strategy

  • Citizen simulation

  • Advanced resource management

  • Advanced trading system

  • Combat and violence

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The game itself does not contain AI generated content at all. But the Steam main image and the Menu background image was created with AI support.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon with 2 GB
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: 3.2 GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon with 4 GB
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 11 Big Sur+
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon with 2 GB
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 14 Sonoma+
    • Processor: Apple M3 or Intel Core i7
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon with 4 GB
    • Storage: 2 GB available space

Customer reviews for The First Mine About user reviews Your preferences

Overall Reviews:
1 user reviews (1 reviews)






To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar.




Filter reviews by the user's playtime when the review was written:


No minimum to No maximum

Show reviews in selected display order





Learn More
Filters
Excluding Off-topic Review Activity
Playtime:
Played Mostly on Steam Deck
There are no more reviews that match the filters set above
Adjust the filters above to see other reviews
Loading reviews...