Pixmove, released June 2026
The fifth game of the format came from a third studio and turned out not to be a slot. One reel, one pickaxe, a shaft that runs straight down. The pickaxe breaks blocks on its way until its durability is gone, from 100 hits on the wooden one to 400 on the diamond. Dirt and stone pay nothing; emerald at the bottom pays 5x a block.
Pixmove publish the month, not the day. Catalogues quote three different dates between them, so the wording here is the studio's own.
The other four games collect up to fifteen tools on 5x3 reels and drop them column by column. This one has a single reel, and it hands over exactly one of five things: a Cross, a wooden pickaxe, a stone one, an iron one or a diamond one.
The Cross is an empty round. Money taken, nothing to watch. Pixmove wrote a floor under it: seven Crosses in a row and the eighth spin owes you a pickaxe. Nothing on screen counts them for you.
After that the pickaxe falls by itself. There is no column to pick and no way to stop it early. The round lasts as long as durability does, and every payout waits until the end.
| Pickaxe | Durability |
|---|---|
| Wooden | 100 HP |
| Stone | 150 HP |
| Iron | 200 HP |
| Diamond | 400 HP |
Seven block types. Dirt and stone hold one hit each and pay nothing at all; their whole job is to drain the tool on the way down. Scoring starts at copper and climbs with toughness, so the better the block, the longer it takes.
The spread across the table is enormous. Copper returns 0.01 of the bet, emerald returns 5. That is five hundred times, and emerald holds thirty hits, a third of a wooden pickaxe in one block.
Nothing is paid out as you go. Winnings accumulate through the round and land together the moment durability hits zero.
| Block | Hits | Payout |
|---|---|---|
| Dirt | 1 | 0x |
| Stone | 1 | 0x |
| Copper | 5 | 0.01x |
| Redstone | 10 | 0.05x |
| Gold | 15 | 0.2x |
| Diamond | 20 | 1x |
| Emerald | 30 | 5x |
None of them pays anything; all of them decide how deep you get.
TNT detonates when broken and clears everything within a radius. That is pure profit for the tool: blocks removed by the blast cost no durability.
The Upgrade Arrow makes the pickaxe 1.5 times larger for three seconds, so it clears a wider path. A second arrow while the effect is live takes it to double size, a third to 2.5.
The Workbench is the most valuable block down there. It refills durability completely and promotes the pickaxe one tier: wooden to stone, stone to iron, iron to diamond. A diamond pickaxe is simply repaired to 400.
That is where the story of a good round comes from: a wooden pickaxe that meets two workbenches arrives at the bottom as a diamond one with a full bar.
Pay for a tier and the reel is guaranteed to land on it.
| Buy | Durability | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden pickaxe | 100 HP | 2.99x |
| Stone pickaxe | 150 HP | 5.65x |
| Iron pickaxe | 200 HP | 8.44x |
| Diamond pickaxe | 400 HP | 10.5x |
These prices are gentle next to the rest of the format, where a bonus buy costs 100x the bet. The reason is the ceiling: a game that cannot pay beyond 160x could never sell a hundred-bet entry.
Look at how the price steps. Stone gives half again the durability of wooden and nearly doubles the price. Diamond doubles the durability of iron and adds only a quarter to the price. The diamond buy is the one you pay for the ceiling rather than the ratio.
Frames captured in the Pixmove demo at a base bet of 30.
Pixmove distribute widely, so this one is not tied to a single casino.
This is where Falling Pickaxe by Pixmove runs
Play here: Falling Pickaxe
Go to SneketA dash means the game has no such value at all.
| Parameter | Mine Drop | Mine Slot | Mine Slot 2 | Falling Pickaxe | Mine Drop 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Paperclip Gaming | InOut Games | InOut Games | Pixmove | Paperclip Gaming |
| Released | 8 September 2025 | 24 December 2025 | 11 March 2026 | June 2026 | 28 July 2026 |
| Category | slot | slot | slot | instant game | slot |
| RTP | 96% | 96% | 96% | 95% | 96.70% |
| Max win | 5,000x | not published | 1,000x | 160x | 50,000x |
| Volatility | medium-high | not published | not published | low | high, with a switch |
| Mine grid | 5x6 | 5x7 | 5x7 | - | - |
| Block types | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Pickaxe tiers | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Free spins | 4 | 4 | 3, 4 or 5 | - | 4 |
| Bonus tiers | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Buy options | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Where to play | Stake | 1xSlots | Vavada | Sneket | Stake |
Three rows come out empty for Falling Pickaxe, and that is not missing data. There is no fixed mine grid: the shaft runs on as long as the tool falls. There are no free spins because there is no bonus series at all, and no bonus tiers for the same reason.
What it has instead belongs to no other game here: durability as the resource of a round, a workbench that promotes the tool through tiers, and a floor under eight empty spins in a row.
Pixmove file it as an instant game, and the build agrees: one reel instead of five, one pickaxe instead of five, a vertical shaft and no chests anywhere. The spin and the bet are all it borrows from a slot.
It is a legitimate outcome, not a fault. The bet is taken, no pickaxe arrives and the round is over before it starts. Seven Crosses in a row and the eighth spin must award a pickaxe.
Because durability runs out. Every hit costs one point: 100 on the wooden pickaxe, 150 stone, 200 iron, 400 diamond. Dirt and stone pay nothing yet cost exactly as much durability as ore does.
The developer declares 160x. That is the lowest ceiling in the family: Mine Drop reaches 5,000x and Mine Drop 2 reaches 50,000x. Pixmove also call the volatility low, and the two figures agree with each other.
There are four, one per pickaxe: 2.99x the bet for wooden, 5.65x for stone, 8.44x for iron and 10.5x for diamond. The reel is then guaranteed to land on the tier you paid for.
The demo is open on the Pixmove site with no account, and the same build runs inside Stake on the game page. Be patient with it: the game took several minutes to reach the screen for us.