Gold Mine Defender Downloads & RevenueGold Mine Defender · Google Play
Gold Mine Defender gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Gold Mine Defender is #96 in Games › Strategy Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 7 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 16 events
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new countryRussia
- 📦Gold Mine Defender updated to version 2.17No release notes
- 📦Gold Mine Defender updated to version 2.15No release notes
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new country in 2 chartsSpain · Vietnam
- 📈Gold Mine Defender entered the top 100Top Free · Strategy · VN
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new country in 3 chartsThailand · Turkey · Taiwan
- 📈Gold Mine Defender entered the top 100Top Free · Strategy · TW
- 📈Gold Mine Defender entered the top 100Top Free · Strategy · SA
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈Gold Mine Defender charting in a new country in 2 chartsBrazil · Italy
- 🆕Gold Mine Defender first spotted by AppInsiderSouth Korea
- 📦Gold Mine Defender version 2.7No release notes
- 🆕Gold Mine Defender: its developer released another app: 激戦！蜀の白龍
- 🆕Gold Mine Defender released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Games › Strategy FreeGold Mine Defender at a glance
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Gold Mine Defender on Google Play
App details
Gold Mine Defender downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Gold Mine Defender's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Gold Mine Defender before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Gold Mine Defender makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Games › StrategyFree | #96 |
 South Korea | Games › StrategyFree | #27 |
| South Korea | All GamesFree | #197 |
 Canada | Games › StrategyFree | #122 |
 Australia | Games › StrategyFree | #190 |
 Taiwan | Games › StrategyFree | #109 |
 Russia | Games › StrategyFree | #175 |
 Vietnam | Games › StrategyFree | #179 |
Apps near Gold Mine Defender on the chart
Games › Strategy Free, around #96.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Gold Mine Defender
From the 100 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed (42% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and few ads. The main complaints are about ads, and not being fun.
What people like
- Fun: “fun almost like the ol SC”
- Ads: “good game, time killer, a lot of ads”
Common complaints
- Ads: “want a repair, watch an ad”
- Fun: “somewhat fun, but very unpolished”
- Features & content: “want to sweep a level more than 3 times, watch an ad”
- Price & subscription: “They weren't inspired by or paying homage to Starcraft”