CastleMiner Z
Fair · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c or better with 500 mb memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
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
The value story
August 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 13 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Walking Zombie 2 (free, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Miscreated ($29.99, scores 11).
Of the 609 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 271 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,875 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 8.1 times as much.
The drop-off
32% start to 2% rarestNo 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
Players
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
great game was one of the two best minecraft clones back in the day this and total miner forge
Great concept and addons make the experience fun or straight up chaotic. loved this game since it was out on the Xbox 360!
What can I say, what can I say... I used to play it when I was 8-10 years old on the Xbox 360, and now I'm 20 and... I still haven't gotten tired of it. Every time I launch this game, nostalgia sets in. The music that accompanies the changes in biomes is beautiful and memorable; over time, you never forget it, and it's always a pleasure to hear it. It was a great time, and it still is-the emotions I experienced back...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CastleMiner Z scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/253430/castleminer-zReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 1.
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