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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.

33%
positive of 73 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$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 72% of 11,404 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 14 of 23 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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