Total Miner similar games & best alternatives

Total Miner

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Deep exploration and layered worlds
  • Extensive creative and scripting tools
  • Skill and progression systems
  • Strong nostalgia and community support
  • Affordable price

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of official multiplayer at launch
  • Some bugs and ui issues
  • Combat and animations feel weak
  • Slow development and updates
  • Limited narrative and social depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Junk Jack

  • Everwind

  • Craftopia

  • FortressCraft Evolved!

  • DYSPLACED

  • Devil Spire Falls

More story-driven

Games that feels like Total Miner but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Hedon Bloodrite

  • Aground

  • DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

  • The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

  • Crashlands 2

  • Heretic + Hexen

Less social

Games that feels like Total Miner but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Block Story™

  • Lay of the Land

  • Wizordum

  • Phoenotopia: Awakening

  • FOUNTAINS

  • DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS

More intimate

Games that feels like Total Miner but with more focus on close relationships

  • Core Keeper

  • Barony

  • Creativerse

  • Starbound

  • ATLYSS

  • PixARK

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Total Miner: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership, Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026