RPGFit check
Is Total Miner worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Creative RPG builders who want to script quests and custom interactions
- Players who prefer constructing and customizing voxel worlds
- Action-adventure players seeking two ready-to-play modes within a sandbox game
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly directed campaign rather than open-ended world construction
- Players who want many distinct gameplay modes instead of two action-adventure modes
- Players looking for a game centered on the multiplayer experience shown in the trailer
Our take on Total Miner
The page emphasizes scripting, building tools, and world systems, while the playable scope is framed around creative construction plus two action-adventure modes. A note also says the Steam multiplayer experience differs from the Xbox 360 footage.
What is Total Miner?
Total Miner is an open-world voxel sandbox focused on creative RPG building, with two action-adventure modes for direct play.
Its built-in scripting language and Lua support can automate tasks, create quests, mini-games, boss fights, NPC behavior, dialogue trees, and custom HUDs. Construction tools can fill, clear, replace, copy, and paste areas, while generating lines, paths, walls, spheres, and forests. The game includes 234 blocks, 338 items, and 410 items or blocks that can be crafted, smelted, smithed, or cooked. Other systems include 74 avatar and NPC models, 25 texture packs, 41 music tracks totaling over 3. 5 hours, farming, optional 16-skill progression, permissions, zones, powered logic circuits, seasonal cycles, animated fluids, and photo storage.
How Total Miner plays
- 01World-building tools
- Large areas can be modified at once, and sections can be copied or saved as reusable components.
- 02Quest scripting
- The built-in language and Lua support can govern quests, mini-games, boss encounters, NPC behavior, and dialogue.
- 03NPC customization
- NPC models can use configurable behavior and dialogue trees for interactions created within a world.
- 04Crafting systems
- The game includes 410 items or blocks that can be crafted, smelted, smithed, or cooked.
- 05Optional skill progression
- Sixteen skills grant experience through activities and can provide access to better items.
- 06World simulation
- Farming, day and night, seasons, wind, and animated water and lava are included.
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Total Miner: platforms & release
Is Total Miner worth it?
It is worth it if: creative RPG builders who want to script quests and custom interactions. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly directed campaign rather than open-ended world construction.
Where can I download Total Miner?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Total Miner's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Total Miner on?
Windows only.
