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Mars Miner – Adventure Game Review
Mars Miner is a Adventure/Strategy/Entertainment game from Tuna Bowl Software LLC, first launched in 14th October 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 243+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mars Miner Stand Out
Mine, build, and upgrade your way to freedom!
You've been kidnapped by the evil Mars Corp. and forced to mine for pieces of an ancient artifact buried deep below the surface of Mars.
Finding all of the pieces of the artifact is your ticket back to Earth.
You will find many valuable gems and ores along the way that can be sold at the shop to buy more supplies and better equipment to allow you to mine deeper.
Make sure you have enough supplies to get back out of the mine!
Every mine is randomly generated. No game is ever the same!
Reviews:
88/100 – App of the day! – touchvolume.com
Note: This is the 'lite' version of the game. The full game can be unlocked via an in-app purchase. This model was chosen so that save data would be retained between the lite and full versions.
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mars Miner is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th February 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Internal code clean up.
- Mars Miner 2 is released! Get it in the App Store!
Download & Availability
Mars Miner is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Absolutely a childhood favorite for our 2005 self. We hold it on an internalized affection level of that of Minecraft. From the mining sounds to the dripping in the background, this game hasnt changed and hasnt degraded over time. Doing research online, it seems Tuna bowl made it biggest with this 2 part series of a game. We hope the developers are doing amazingly. Anyway, its free of ads, but does require you to pay for a bigger experience. But honestly, its worth it. It is barebones and fundamentally structured, with many options to progress. This is the epitome of AppStore golden age. If we could, Id help them program game 3.
This game is the best game do you change it to big or small and its just the best and theres no problems but you need to pay to get in our section.
Really enjoying playing this game to pass the time.
If you have the time it's a good game the concept of the game is simple and fun we would recommend it.
It's really good and we would like the maker if he can have a house that you can go inside it and put couches, tv, table, etc….. But other than that, the game is good.
This game is amazing! We love it! We like the concept, and the graphics are good as well! The only problem is that when you buy god mode, hovershoes, and things like that, it takes the fun out of the game really, but you get to explore longer, WAY longer! But no matter what, the game is good.
We love thing game it's fun and addicting.
We've been playing it for months, paid for the full game. Now this morning It tells our that we need to but the full game and it has reduced the playing field all of a sudden. What gives.
Good game great for time killing.
Keeps us entertained while lying in bed.
We love this game so much!!!!! We can't stop playing.
We've been looking for a great mining game and this is it! Really fun.
Really excellent time killer. One of the best arcade-y games we've run across.
If you want to have a blast this is it… If you want god mode spend .99 cents to much fun.
We think it's a good game and all should play it.
Mystery + critical thinking + you don't have to pay real money for upgrades + fun :)).
Most addicting game we've played in a while.
It's a great game, we like the saving game feature.
The best game ever we've ever played.
Very fun but can you guys please try to add a story and a bigger map but we love it it so much fun.
It's kinda the same thing over and over, but it's still really fun.
We have had this game for quite awhile… We upgraded to a new phone and lost all the objects/features that we had previously purchased… All our games were lost as well so be careful about that.
Great time killer that's for sure.
Worth $.99 that the full version cost. It's a fun little game.
This game is really fun, but once you finish the first stage/level it just repeats. No new challenges or changes to face, you just do the same thing over and over.
It's a simple ours game, if your looking to kill time then this game is for you.
This game is fun and very addicting.
Not horrible, good time waster.
We have fun playing it but it's hard at times.
Good time sink or good for a quick play.
We were able to max ourselves out in minutes do to some glitches that give you 1000000$ worth of gems NOT JOKING for free. Finished the game in 20min(the glitch is where you can go to shop watch a add to get coins however the same multiplyer applies to gems making us 500 million GEMS in a 30 second add making us be able to buy the whole shop after clicking the buy coins with gems button a bunch of times.
Game play is decent but you are locked out of completing the game unless you buy the full version, even with ad support. Skip this one.
This is not the best miner game we've found. There's no appeal to it that we can see. The graphics are simple, the movement is blockwise instead of smooth, there's no real consequence to death, and it feels slow to play. Basically this looks like someone's semester project from college. We're assuming most of the 5 star ratings are fake.
Fun game BUT it doesnt save when it says it does. We played for a while, got really far, but when we logged back in, everything is gone. What am we missing.
We hate it you have to pay to go beyond a certain point UNINSTALLED.
The game is fun ,but make it online.
Fun little game that helps pass the time away.
Not interest in buying this app…pretty sure there's some similar one for free.
Great game but free version is very limited.
At the other side of the map you can see a alien.
The best of all of them in our head.
It's a really good game and passes time and that's it.
It's got everything we love: upgrades, mining, and naked women.
Will play second when it comes out.
Fun game about rocks, what more do you need.
It's a fun game to play while we're on the toilet.
Lets go, Best game of 2015 -game informer.
Its an ok game to help kill time. Basically all you do is go mining until your inventory is full or you get low on O2 and then you sell all of the minerals you got from mining to this guy and you can then spend the money on upgrades and stuff.
Its a pretty good game if you like mining games.
You need to stop requesting To make us buy the full version.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.3.8
- Size: 26.61 MB
- iOS: 5.1.1 or later
- Languages: AR, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Tuna Bowl Software LLC
Last updated: 12th February 2016 | Genre: Adventure, Strategy | Developer: Tuna Bowl Software LLC