Name: Rock Bottom
Brand: Steam
Price: 7.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Rock Bottom is listed at $7.99 on Steam.

Rock Bottom is at full price right now. We track it so you will see the moment a genuine discount lands.

The lowest we have tracked is $6.39, so this is not quite the floor.

As a recent release, discounts this early are relatively uncommon.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Simulation, Strategy · Developer: Logan Games · Release: Jul 14, 2026.

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About this game

How it plays

Rock Bottom is an incremental mining game built around one repeatable action: swing a pickaxe, crack open rock, and pull ores out of the ground. You descend through procedurally generated caves, which means no two runs through the same layer look identical, and you’re rewarded for pushing past the easy stuff into deeper, riskier ground. Along the way you feed raw ore into a smelter to turn it into usable bars, which then funds a skill tree of permanent upgrades. That’s the loop that gives the game its shape: you don’t lose progress when a run ends, you bank it. Each layer, starting with the overgrown Sunken Canopy and continuing into areas like the Spore-light canopy, changes the rules a little and asks you to reinvest your bars smartly rather than just charge forward.

Who it’s for

If you’re the kind of player who opens an idle game “just to check on it” and then loses forty minutes optimizing a build, this is squarely aimed at you. It also suits people who like mining and digging games in general, the Terraria and Motherload lineage, but want that satisfaction wrapped in a progression system that keeps handing you reasons to go back down. Fans of skill trees and permanent unlocks will find the core hook familiar and comfortable. On the other hand, if you need combat, a story, or tight platforming to stay engaged, this probably isn’t going to hold your attention, since the draw here is resource loops and layered upgrades rather than action or narrative. Players who dislike procedural generation because it can feel repetitive over long sessions should also go in with tempered expectations.

Is it worth it?

Games in this genre live or die on whether the upgrade curve keeps feeling meaningful, and Rock Bottom’s pitch, permanent progress no matter how a given run goes, is exactly the kind of design that rewards patience over single sessions. It’s a low-pressure game you can dip into for ten minutes or ride for a couple of hours, which makes it a natural fit for a sale purchase. You’re not committing to a huge single-player campaign or a live-service grind with an uncertain future, you’re buying a self-contained loop that either clicks with you in the first hour or it doesn’t. For anyone who already knows they like incremental and mining games, it’s the sort of title that’s easy to recommend picking up when the price drops, since the genre tends to deliver a lot of playtime relative to its footprint.