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Games like Total Miner

If Total Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frozen Flame, FortressCraft Evolved! and Boundless — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its blueprints streamline complex builds, permadeath adds real stakes and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Total Miner: Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

2017ActionIndieAdventureRPGEarly Access2.99 USDWindowsby Brandon Moore
Total Miner — Steam game cover
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Blueprints streamline complex buildsDig deep mode offers 26x minecrafts depthPermadeath adds real stakesChallengingImmersiveNostalgic

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Steam players who put hours into Total Miner also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Frozen Flame

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Total Miner.

    Top pick for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Miner.

    A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. FortressCraft Evolved!

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Second-strongest match for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Total Miner.

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Boundless

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Third-strongest match for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Ranked #4 for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Warhorn

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Total Miner.

    Ranked #5 for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    The Warhorn is a medieval RPG mixed with city-building and management elements. Play as an adventurer who decided to leave his dull life as a lumberjack behind to explore a dangerous world full of puzzles in the pursuit of the most valuable relic mankind has ever seen: The Warhorn!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. 7 Days to Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Ranked #6 for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Rising World

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Ranked #7 for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure11.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Creativerse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Total Miner.

    Ranked #8 for Total Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Total Miner

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Total Miner.

    Reviewers of Total Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Total Miner.

    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

    2009RPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Trove

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Total Miner.

    Reviewers of Total Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Miner.

    Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!

    2015ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal Knights

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Total Miner.

    Reviewers of Total Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Miner.

    The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

    2017ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Total Miner.

    Reviewers of Total Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Total Miner.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Minecraft Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Total Miner.

    Reviewers of Total Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Total Miner.

    Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Total Miner at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Total Miner.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Miner.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Total Miner.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Total Miner.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Total Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Total Miner.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Total Miner.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Total Miner.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Total Miner.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Total Miner.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Total Miner.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Total Miner.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Total Miner.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Total Miner

How much does Total Miner cost?
Total Miner is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Total Miner have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Total Miner supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Total Miner?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Total Miner are Frozen Flame, FortressCraft Evolved!, Boundless.
Who developed Total Miner?
Total Miner was developed by Brandon Moore.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Total Miner.

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