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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

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

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

0
playing now
36%
positive of 391 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
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)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 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

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  • · Top 49% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
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 9 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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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

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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

3 supported languages: English, Italian, Czech

Player tags

FPSRPG6DOFIndieSpaceActionSci-fiSandboxShooterAdventure

Census log

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

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