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Mines of Mars cover art

Mines of Mars

Wickey Ware · Crescent Moon Games · 2018-09-10

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 13, 2014 (Android), Dec 18, 2015 (Mac), Mar 06, 2014 (iOS), Dec 18, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Some suspected that Mars once harbored life. There was a reason that it wasn't ever found.

60%
positive of 72 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 42,671 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2016-10-28) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 2 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-12-182026-07-092015-12-18 — best price $5.942016-02-05 — best price $5.242016-10-28 — best price $0.692016-12-22 — best price $1.742017-10-26 — best price $5.942018-09-10 — best price $5.942019-12-19 — best price $1.042020-01-23 — best price $3.492020-10-19 — best price $3.492022-06-30 — best price $5.942022-11-22 — best price $3.492023-06-29 — best price $3.492023-11-21 — best price $3.492023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-12-04 — best price $3.492025-01-02 — best price $6.992025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-10-06 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieMiningSci-fiPlatformer

Census log

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

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