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Frank the Miner cover art

Frank the Miner

Classic Game Software · Conglomerate 5 · 2018-03-02

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 02, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enter the mine with Frank the Miner, go hunting for precious gems and treasures and set your personal record.

Frank the Miner is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (33% of 73 reviews).

33%
positive of 73 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 46% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-12) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182025Week of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.282018-03-022026-07-272018-03-02 — best price $3.992018-09-17 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $3.992019-02-04 — best price $0.512019-06-26 — best price $0.792019-09-23 — best price $3.992019-12-09 — best price $0.792020-02-03 — best price $3.992020-06-25 — best price $2.032020-10-19 — best price $0.542020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-06-24 — best price $0.542021-12-01 — best price $0.992022-04-18 — best price $0.542022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-09-26 — best price $0.492022-11-29 — best price $0.992023-01-23 — best price $0.282023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-06-30 — best price $0.282023-09-19 — best price $0.992023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-05-20 — best price $0.492024-07-22 — best price $0.992024-11-27 — best price $0.492025-01-13 — best price $0.992025-04-07 — best price $0.492025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.492025-12-08 — best price $0.692026-02-16 — best price $4.992026-05-18 — best price $0.692026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieRetroCasualPuzzleAdventureDifficultPlatformer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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