Moose Miners
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 48.6h 321.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 528 positive
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 9 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
About the game
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty's Retirement ($4.19, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Automation Empire ($29.99, scores 11).
More about Moose Miners
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 459 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 382 have a larger share.
Finishing takes 48.6 hours; clearing it takes 321, which is 6.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 21 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It is a lot of fun building up your moose army and clearing all the gems and trees. So much content in it now, a great game to relax and play.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Moose Miners takes on the idle approach of 'numbers go up' and applies it to a physical map that needs to be mined out manually, not just conceptually. Do you want to see Moose wearing a beer hat shooting lasers? You don't? Weird. 100% achievements are possible with just a few gaming sessions (I got it in 14 hours total, including idle play, quite short for a game in this kind of genre). Those who are complaining it...
Less of a "No" more like a "Eh". Overall the game is a nice timewaster, but it lacks offline progress, making it crucial you keep it open to make significant progress. I usually dont mind this in other incremental games, but that is because they are optimized for running in the background or have a mode that significantly reduces the load on your PC while you play. This game lacks that, so your pc is on load for the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Moose Miners scores 27/100 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/2591410/moose-minersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.