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CastleMiner Z

CastleMiner Z is a first-person survival game set in a vast, changing block world filled with hostile creatures, including zombies, skeletons, and dragons. Play alone or online with friends as you explore its biomes and caves. Mine raw materials and craft weapons and tools, then use blocks to build structures and defenses. As you travel farther through increasingly dangerous areas, gather resources for stronger gear and face tougher enemies. Choose among several modes: Endurance sends you across a randomized world where your party's death ends the run; Survival lets you build in a persistent world; Creative simplifies crafting and lets you adjust or remove enemies; and Dragon Survival pits you against waves of dragons. Worlds can be saved in every mode except Endurance.

Mine and craft in a block-built wilderness, then arm yourself to explore, build defenses, and survive monsters alone or with friends.

Released 03 Feb 2014

81%positive of
11k player reviews

$5.99

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Survival

FPS

Craft Guns from Ore

Build Block Defenses

Survive Dragon Waves

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.

Developed by DigitalDNA Games · Published by DigitalDNA Games

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Players Praise Most

Xbox Nostalgia
Co-op With Friends
Survival With Guns
Eerie Atmosphere

Common Player Critiques

Aged Controls
Limited Content
Technical Bugs
Harsh Combat

81%

positive of 11k player reviews

From the Devs

CastleMiner Z is an online coop survival horror game in a block based environment. Travel with your friends in a huge, ever-changing world and craft modern weapons to defend yourself from dragons and the zombie horde!

Game Play

Endurance Mode: There are tales of a place beyond the mountains where Hell itself has torn through. How far can you get before you succumb to the zombies, dragons, skeletons, or other enemies that thirst for your blood? Run, fight, and sneak your way across dry deserts, snowy mountains, and icy expanses on your quest to vanquish the ultimate guardians of the abyss. In Endurance Mode, the world is randomized each game and the death of your party is permanent.
Survival Mode: If you enjoy Endurance, but would rather build permanent structures and defenses, Survival Mode is where you’ll spend your time.
Creative Mode: With simplified crafting and the ability to adjust or eliminate the enemy threat, Creative Mode is a great place to build vast structures in peace.
Dragon Survival Mode: For those who like their trophies big and their hair singed and smoking, Dragon Survival Mode brings you up close and personal with wave after wave of the biggest, meanest, scaliest brutes in the game.

Worlds can be saved in any game mode (except endurance) so try building a castle with enemies turned off, then grabbing some friends and loading it up with enemies turned on!

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows
Achievements	31
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) 14 — Violência IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Kekerasan Horor Interaksi Daring Steam (Germany) 16 — Drastische Gewalt
Players	1–5
Play modes	Online co-op Online PvP Persistent world
Other modes	Endurance Mode Survival Mode Creative Mode Dragon Survival Mode
Multiplayer	CastleMiner Z supports single-player and online multiplayer. Store features list Online Co-op and Online PvP, and the description says players can play alone or online with friends. Reviews indicate hostable online servers/lobbies, public or friends-only games, joining random servers, kicking/banning by host, and respawning/rejoining behavior in some modes. Reviews also repeatedly indicate play with up to 4 friends, implying up to 5 total players.
Multiplayer & mods	No mod support is described. One review explicitly wishes for modding support, so multiplayer mod effects are not evidenced by the provided information.
Controller required	No
Content notices	Online interactivity
Website	Official website