Miner Wars 2081

Miner Wars 2081

Skip · Multiplayer · 2012

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
11.9h
Value
$0.42/hr
Reviews
35% of 392 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews35% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 39% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.42/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 39 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

67 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. StarMade ($14.99, scores 15) and Hand Simulator: Survival ($2.99, scores 66) both outscore it.

More about Miner Wars 2081

Critics scored it 52, but players land 17 points lower at 35 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 35 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

49% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

i was just going through my games list looking to shorten it a bit and found this gem...i was wondering what would happen if you applied modern technology??,. Loved playing Miner Wars...
Ki'RathianRecommendedafter 9.9hOct 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
glad a game like this has a demo, played the demo...liked it...then i got the full game. but because of the demo i was able to see if i liked the game. this isnt everybodies cup of tea im sure
toaftoafRecommendedafter 3.0hJun 2024Read on Steam
It is this game that makes me refuse to buy anything else that this company makes, Space Engineers, their gemstone will forever be known as the Frankenstein monster of Keem and there's nothing they can do that will ever change that. They canniblized this game and Castle Engineer for one single other game and tried to hide that they even made a total of three failures before their single one good game. Its honestly...
❤ Sly Succubus ❤Not recommendedafter 35hJun 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Miner Wars 2081 scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223430/miner-wars-2081
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-17
Critics52
Players35
Critic darling, cooler with players. Read recent reviews before buying.
Metacritic critics · 392 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKeen Software House
PublisherKeen Software House
GenreMultiplayer
Released2012
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12