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Games like Total Miner

  • 11 games
  • Updated May 4, 2026

Players who liked Total Miner also play

The closest matches to Total Miner: CastleMiner Z, Terraria, Rising World, FortressCraft Evolved!, and Creativerse. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

  1. Rank 01

    Why this

    Same nostalgic mood as Total Miner.

    • $5.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • 2014
  2. Rank 02

    Why this

    Same immersive mood as Total Miner.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • 2011
  3. Rank 03

    Why this

    Also Open World Survival Craft and Voxel, like Total Miner.

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2014
  1. Rank 05

    Creativerse

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2017
  2. Rank 06

    Necesse

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • Deck Verified
    • 2025
  3. Rank 07

    Craftopia

    Why this: Shares skill tree with Total Miner.

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2020
  4. Rank 08

    Starbound

    • $5.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2016

The full ranked list: top 24 games like Total Miner

Best match first, as plain text. The same list for AI assistants:
  1. 1
    CastleMiner Z

    Same nostalgic mood as Total Miner.

    • 86% of 5,711 reviews
  2. 2
    Terraria

    Same immersive mood as Total Miner.

    • 98% of 590,217 reviews
  3. 3
    Rising World

    Also Open World Survival Craft and Voxel, like Total Miner.

    • 86% of 3,066 reviews
  4. 4
    FortressCraft Evolved!

    Genres: Strategy, Indie, Adventure

    • 71% of 2,091 reviews
  5. 5
    Creativerse

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 76% of 1,364 reviews
  6. 6
    Necesse

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 95% of 11,720 reviews
  7. 7
    Craftopia

    Shares skill tree with Total Miner.

    • 80% of 7,405 reviews
  8. 8
    Starbound

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 89% of 51,728 reviews
  9. 9
    7 Days to Die

    Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie

    • 85% of 124,117 reviews
  10. 10
    Dig or Die

    Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie

    • 91% of 2,032 reviews
  11. 11
    Valheim

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 94% of 558,366 reviews
  12. 12
    Crea

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 73% of 766 reviews
  13. 13
    PixARK

    Same retro mood as Total Miner.

    • 69% of 3,190 reviews
  14. 14
    Core Keeper

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 95% of 22,806 reviews
  15. 15
    Don't Starve Together

    Shares permadeath with Total Miner.

    • 96% of 80,691 reviews
  16. 16
    Satisfactory

    Genres: Strategy, Indie, Adventure

    • 98% of 132,199 reviews
  17. 17
    Space Engineers

    Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie

    • 90% of 67,178 reviews
  18. 18
    The Forest

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 95% of 175,474 reviews
  19. 19
    Portal Knights

    Same challenging mood as Total Miner.

    • 84% of 4,796 reviews
  20. 20
    StarMade

    Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie

    • 67% of 1,712 reviews
  21. 21
    Boundless

    Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure

    • 74% of 1,316 reviews
  22. 22
    TerraTech

    Genres: Action, Indie

    • 93% of 13,053 reviews
  23. 23
    Trove

    Genres: Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer

    • 77% of 42,276 reviews
  24. 24
    Life is Feudal: Your Own

    Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation

    • 59% of 4,271 reviews
Total Miner — Steam game cover
  • Released: 2017
  • Developer: Brandon Moore
  • Price: $2.99checked Nov 7
  • 79% of 666 reviews
  • Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure, RPG, Early Access
  • Platforms: Windows

Players highlight

  • Blueprints streamline complex builds
  • Dig deep mode offers 26x minecrafts depth
  • Permadeath adds real stakes
  • Challenging
  • Immersive
  • Nostalgic

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About Total Miner

The closest matches to Total Miner: CastleMiner Z, Terraria, Rising World, FortressCraft Evolved!, and Creativerse. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Total Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are CastleMiner Z, Terraria and Rising World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, immersive and nostalgic, and single out its blueprint system and dynamic weather. 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.

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.

Is Total Miner worth buying?

  • 79% of 666 Steam reviews are positive.
  • We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
  • Early Access: unfinished, and it can change a lot before release.
  • Price: $2.99 (checked Nov 7).
  • People who recommend it had played a median of 17 h when they wrote their review.

What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews

Top critical reviews

The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.

“Don't get me wrong, I love that this gem of a game got a modern-day PC port/rework/whatever, but... Dig Deep just doesn't hit AT ALL the same as it did back in the day. I swear blueprints are so much harder to find underground. I remember…”
3 h played
“Miss this on Xbox 360. It hasn't been bad so far but little has changed since the Xbox version. Devs work very slowly and release the mkst minor updates once or twice a year. Multiplayer is nice but it took them ages to come out with it…”
150 h played
More negative reviews on Steam ↗

People who play it also play: CastleMiner Z, Terraria, Rising World

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Frequently asked about Total Miner

Can I run it?

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 CastleMiner Z, Terraria, Rising World.

Who developed Total Miner?

Total Miner was developed by Brandon Moore.