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Mechanic Miner cover art

Mechanic Miner

Hello John · 2020-02-20

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 20, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

Mechanic Miner is a 2020 Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game priced at $7.99, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, with a Mixed sentiment (58% of 208 reviews).

0
playing now
58%
positive of 206 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (52 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 206 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.63 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520192025Week of 2019-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.632019-05-232026-03-262019-05-23 — best price $15.292019-05-29 — best price $17.992019-06-26 — best price $15.292019-07-09 — best price $17.992020-02-20 — best price $15.292020-02-27 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $13.992020-07-09 — best price $19.992022-12-22 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-19 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-06-27 — best price $3.192024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $2.792024-12-04 — best price $7.992024-12-19 — best price $3.192025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $2.632025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $3.192025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $2.632026-03-26 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
35.7%
earned "Extractor I"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Danish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-02-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1270%43

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionSandboxScienceBuildingCraftingStylizedAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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