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Mining & Tunneling Simulator cover art

Mining & Tunneling Simulator

United Independent Entertainment GmbH · 2014-03-05

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Blast rocks, drill tunnels and force your way through every mountain. At the beginning you have enough time and no major problems. Once the TNT charges are placed you can start the blasting to create the tunnel entrance. The excavated material will be loaded by a shovel dozer on a dump truck and transported to the storage site.

Mining & Tunneling Simulator is a 2014 Simulation game priced at $1.49, with a Very Negative review sentiment (19% of 139 reviews) and an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners.

0
playing now
19%
positive of 139 reviews
Very Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (12 reviews).
  • · Top 37% of 16,650 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 139 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.90 at GamersGate (2017-04-06) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.09 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920142026Week of 2014-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Mar 2014Aug 2019Mar 2014 — avg 2 · peak 13May 2014 — avg 1 · peak 9Jul 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2019

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$30.85$0.952015-01-012026-07-282015-01-01 — best price $5.092015-04-27 — best price $1.992015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-07-08 — best price $30.852015-08-08 — best price $0.952015-09-29 — best price $7.582015-12-25 — best price $1.052016-05-06 — best price $28.832016-07-14 — best price $3.992016-11-21 — best price $2.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-04-10 — best price $9.992017-07-17 — best price $9.992017-10-24 — best price $9.992018-01-03 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $2.992018-10-13 — best price $2.492018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-04-16 — best price $2.992019-07-10 — best price $9.992019-08-29 — best price $1.502019-10-15 — best price $9.992019-11-27 — best price $1.502019-12-24 — best price $9.992020-01-28 — best price $9.992020-08-25 — best price $2.252020-11-03 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-11-02 — best price $2.242021-12-23 — best price $2.242023-01-16 — best price $24.362023-10-05 — best price $6.992024-06-10 — best price $9.992026-07-28 — best price $1.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish

Player tags

MiningSimulation

Census log

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

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