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Miner Wars 2081 cover art

Miner Wars 2081

Keen Software House · 2012-11-28

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 28, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!

1
playing now
36%
positive of 391 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
45/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Miner Wars 2081 is a six degrees of freedom action-survival space-shooter simulation game produced by Keen Software House. The gameplay offers a choice of single player, co-op, and deathmatch multi-player. The game is set in the year 2081, 11 years after the destruction of all planetary objects in the Solar System. The story introduces the player to many types of missions: rescue, exploration, revenge, base defense, theft, transportation, stealth, search and destroy, pure harvesting or racing. A multiplayer spin-off game, Miner Wars Arena, was also released in 2012.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 150% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,909 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 16k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 391 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2015-11-25) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012026-08-032015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992017-12-20 — best price $4.992018-04-02 — best price $9.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-01-15 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-09-04 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $3.492020-01-18 — best price $4.992020-04-10 — best price $4.992020-06-05 — best price $4.992020-07-14 — best price $9.992020-09-14 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $3.492021-02-04 — best price $4.992021-07-15 — best price $6.992021-11-15 — best price $3.492021-12-22 — best price $3.492022-02-05 — best price $9.992022-06-18 — best price $9.992022-11-07 — best price $4.992023-01-06 — best price $9.992023-05-13 — best price $9.992023-11-04 — best price $9.992024-02-26 — best price $3.492024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-12-05 — best price $3.342025-05-05 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-08-03 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2112026-05-31 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-08 — 1 pageviews2026-06-12 — 3 pageviews2026-06-16 — 6 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-02 — 1 pageviews2026-07-06 — 8 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-30 — 7 pageviews2026-08-03 — 10 pageviews2026-08-07 — 3 pageviews2026-08-11 — 7 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 4 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 4 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews2026-09-08 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 8 pageviews2026-09-16 — 3 pageviews2026-09-20 — 4 pageviews2026-09-24 — 9 pageviews2026-09-28 — 8 pageviews2026-10-02 — 7 pageviews2026-10-06 — 10 pageviews2026-10-09 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
49%
earned "Completed mission EAC Survey Site"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsCaptions availablePartial Controller SupportStatsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Italian, Czech

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8821%12

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

Player tags

FPSRPG6DOFIndieSpaceActionSci-fiSandboxShooterAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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