Deep Sky Prospector

You own one small ship, one creaky drone, and a very long stretch of empty belt. Deep Sky Prospector is an idle mining game about collecting, not about numbers getting bigger. Send the drone out, put the phone down, live your life. When you come back the hold is heavier and there are a few unidentified crystals in it — and that is the good part. WATCH THE DRONE The mine screen is the game. A painted asteroid field outside the porthole, your drone drifting out to a rock and back on its slow work cycle, a meteor now and then. Nothing on screen is fake: a spark and a chime mean the engine really rolled a strike. There are no numbers flying at you and nothing to tap to make it go faster. IDENTIFY THE CRYSTALS Rocks come home unidentified. The spectrometer reveals a few a day, and that reveal is the whole ceremony — a slow sweep, then a jewel. Sixty species across six regions, from grey rubble to a prismatic thing that should not exist. FILL THE COLLECTION The codex is grouped by region and reads as a ladder, so you can see your progress without reading a word of it. Shelve your best pieces in the display case and the legendary ones quietly help your ship. Refine a duplicate into its prismatic form. Buy a backdrop, a pedestal, a nicer light. Fit your drone with parts you can actually see bolted onto it. HONEST BY DESIGN - The odds are published, right there in the app: 45 / 27 / 15 / 8 / 4 / 1 %. - The pity counter is visible. You always know how close you are. - Offline earnings are real, generously capped and never quietly halved. - Nothing expires, no timers punish you, no energy bar, no daily streak to lose. - Ads are opt-in where they matter: watch a short video only if you want one extra scan today, up to eight. There is one small banner, and Pro (a single purchase, no subscription) removes it, unlocks four cabin cosmetics and lets you take those same eight extra scans without watching a video. The daily limit is the same for everyone; Pro never sells luck: it adds no scan beyond that limit, changes no odds and helps with nothing random. That is a promise the odds table makes on our behalf. ALSO TRUE - A home-screen widget shows the hold filling, the crystals waiting and today's scans. No button on it: collecting is something you do inside. - The game itself works offline — the drone, the reveals, the codex. Ads and the Pro purchase need a connection. No account, no sign-in, nothing to register. - Your save lives on your device. - English and 中文, switched inside the game. - Made for players 13 and up. A small business in the asteroid belt. Take your time.