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Mines of Mars – Adventure Game Review
Mines of Mars is a Adventure/Roleplaying/Entertainment game from Crescent Moon Games LLC, first launched in 6th March 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 213+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mines of Mars Stand Out
Some suspected that Mars once harbored life.
There was a reason that it wasn't ever found.
Mines of Mars is a procedural atmospheric mining game that is inspired by games like Metroid and Motherload.
It is also a story based adventure game with dark secrets, great weapons, tons of different items, and a gorgeous world to explore.
The world of MoM is procedurally created, so that every time you play it, it will be a little different.
There are tons of different enemies, dark corridors, and a large variety of fauna and ambient creatures.
-Huge Procedurally generated underground world
-Night and Day system
-Dark secrets
-Atmospheric vibes
-3 Mini Games
-Original Ambient Soundtrack by Evan Gipson
-Lots of flora and fauna
-Tons of Weapons and Items
-Great storyline
-Gravity Mining!
-Huge Bosses
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mines of Mars is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th December 2018
Recent improvements include:
-Minor fixes and updates
Download & Availability
Mines of Mars is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
We love this game its great. Its satisfying because its a mining game but theres lots of different weapons to use and creatures to kill, little mini dungeons, mysterious creepy storyline, funny dialogue, even a little arcade with OG games like pong and asteroids. The variety is enjoyable. Ive played this game many times and loved it. Lately though Im having trouble with our phone or someone hacking the game on our phone bc Im encountering bugs: 1. Treasure chests often yield nothing, including the ones at the end of dungeons. 2. We mined every single block, completed every dungeon, and filled the museum with all the artifacts & the key but our percentage progress would not update past 88% so we did not get to see Mines of Earth (it was still satisfying mining the blocks though). To the Dev: we can send you all documentation you wish for the bugs. If your codes been hacked we would think youd want to know. In addition to fixing the bugs one suggestion we have is towards the end it would be great to have an unlimited bin. Otherwise, this is a clever and well put together game. Id like to see more like it and definitely a sequel.
As the title says, we always come back to this game. Its almost as if you combined Minecraft and Terraria, and put that whole combo on Mars. Theres so much to do, and we always enjoy starting over from the beginning and going at it again, taking different approaches to how we progress in the game. That being said, Id like it if maybe the sounds were updated a little bit, because mining sounds a little annoying sometimes. Other than that, this game is a gem.
A truly epic game. Totally worth the $. But hits on our biggest pet peeve in games. Developers if you know you have sucky controls DON'T design areas which exploit your lazy (or inept) programming. If you ever played Neverwinter nights you screamed at trying try move 6 characters through a cramped dungeon like one of those puzzles with 20 squares and 19 out of order numbers. Stupid dungeon areas in this game which have unavoidable lava and spike because the flying portion is so jumpy in controls. Grrrr! Otherwise 5 stars.
So far im having a great time with the game loving the depth into the storyline and just the entire atmosphere, but we were wondering if yaw could add some sore of maybe platform to place down on gaps to help with mining so im not always falling in a hole using our jetpack to get over it, also it would be nice to see the Movement pad on the left and the jump pad on the right so im not always hitting the gun pad when trying to jump. Just a suggestion was wondering if yaw could cover that. Overall we love the concept and content the game has, well worth our time and money. Would love to see more content and updates. Thank you for us a brilliant work of art.
Absolutely brilliant game. Highly recommend.
There are plenty of mining games around, but this one is exceptional both in its visuals and in the presence of an overarching plot.
Great game top to bottom. The most satisfying mining game Ive encountered on ios, with the perfect blend and balance of RPG elements. A huge bonus is the super smooth controller support. We would loudly recommend to any gamer.
Awesome game, used to play this constantly on plane rides. Relaxing fun.
We have enjoyed this game more than all other ios games, but they havent made another. We have been waiting for years. Please make a new version. Ill buy it.
Played this years ago and finished it and we are back! Cant wait to see what you guys have in store! Would love for a graphic update for the iPad or at least an option to set graphic settings. Would love new maps that we can at least purchase in app and how about multiplayer where we could barter what we ours? Not get to overly complicated just fun ours and exchange of goods and services.
First of all let us start by saying thank you to each and everyone responsible for one of the very few and best mobile games we have had the absolute pleasure of playing!! Thank you all sincerely!!!!! The only thing we can think of that is bad about the game is yeah you probably guessed it!!, and that would be there is no sequel??!! Why please please and we ask again pleeeease make a second game just make it bigger more of the same and updated graphics for todays devices!!! Please. And we will gladly pay 39.99 to 59.99$ heck the do dlc pack 9.99 a pack we will gladly pay for that. But pleeease dont go with the highway robbery of (free to play) crap!!! Or gambling boxs!! Once again thank all of you at crescent moon games.
We've noticed a glitch in the game when the player dies, the player doesn't get resurrected even tho there is a 'number of deaths' status. Please, fix this glitch.
Good game needs the promised multiplayer.
Game play is fun and the music and imagery are really slick. We are still early in our exploring and fave found no real surprises but we suspect there will be some around the corner.
Its annoying. Before it was better.
This game is really fun to play, but there are two bugs that happened on our iPhone SE 2nd Gen. 1) There is a bug where a portal appears on top of a dungeon, making it impossible to complete the game. 2) After completing the game and walking through the last portal, the ending does not appear. (we had to restart to get this far.) our advice is to wait until they release a version after after 4.01 specifically stating they fixed these issues, or DO NOT BUY PORTALS as doing so could ruin the game and be happy that you might not see the ending after beating it.
The game was ok. Its a bit of a grind to progress, but the bugs are way more frustrating and have finally ruined it. Some of the bugs were nuisances, but most recently, we mined what appeared to be some of the only remaining steel (necessary to craft important items) and we saved our progress. Suddenly, the portals simply stopped working. Our only choice is to die (and lose the small and precious amount of material collected and possibly never be able to progress crafting) or wait for the bug to be fixed. Im putting this game down for a while. We hope they do something to fix bugs on new iPhones like X and XR.
We were so looking forward to this game too. Unfortunately it's broken not long after the beginning of the game. You can teleport down into the abyss and, if you go right back through the portal it works, but if you go exploring in the cave to fill up your inventory, the portal no longer works when you get back. If you die or run out of fuel, the game is supposed to resurrect you right where you died with an empty inventory, but you come back invisible and unable to move or do anything but jump. Even if the app developers fix these issues in a future update, the bugs so frequent and glaring, there's no doubt in our mind the rest of the game is equally as buggy. There's no way we can play a game like this knowing there's a 60%-75% chance that we will lose all our progress because of a game breaking bug.
People are gonna be all like, cmon developers, this game needs more. But we think this game is amazing! Like just how RNG based the game is. Like luck to find certain ores. Its just amazing. 11/10.
We love all the funny dialogue. Finding all the different ores is really intriguing! Five stars for this! Totally worth the five! Dont listen to the bad reviews. If you want a fun mining game, this is it.
Good game that will make you want more and after you havent played in awhile we re downloaded just to play again because of how good it was the first time around.
This game is quite we tresting and the humor is on base (literally) Ive enjoyed the game so far and am looking forward to playing This game.
Bought because of the most recent update which fixes a host of problems. Hope the developer keeps supporting and updating the game.
Had fun for hours playing this game.
Its a great game but Im on our 3rd time trying to playing through. The first time we could not find enough rhodite and could not finish the game. Maybe an earthquake/partial tunnel reset could help this problem Larger map possibly? The second we got about 3 hours in and lost our progress(forgot to save the game) It Needs an auto save feature. Great game otherwise.
A very fun game, you must download and play this game. We've been playing for several years now and still love to start over and begin a new game.
We love the game. We can play it all day if we could. But the only thing that confuses us is the offering pit. What does it do? Ive attempted to see on multiple profiles but its just wasting our resources.
We're a pretty big fan of mining games like this. When we read the description of this, we knew what to expect. But wow! It's always a blast to strategically dig away new tunnels, excited for whatever is waiting to be discovered, but the eerie atmosphere combined with the mysterious ancientness of the setting and haunting choir music adds to the tension of the adventure. You never know what may be lurking in the dark.
This is an amazing mining game! The visuals are beautiful, the controls are smooth, and the gameplay is really entertaining! We just bought this game about 30 minutes ago and we L O V E it! There is nothing that really needs to be added. We would have said add a building mechanic, but this game is fine the way it is! (If they put a building mechanic in, it would lose it's originality.) AMAZING JOB! The 4.99 price tag is so worth it.
Very awesome game. Fun concept and well executed. Unfortunately the controls can be a little better such as dedicated buttons for the jet pack and jump.
If you like a good ol' mining game with so,e monster killing fun thrown in, this is the one for you. Worth it.
This is our favorite game that uses the digging and crafting style of play. The controls feel good, the story is good, and it takes a while to unfold giving us plenty of useful playtime. The visuals are very appealing and the soundtrack and sound design are both beautiful.
Love the game. Easy to pick up. Great time killer and you don't have to be a level 12 nerd to play. Great to pick up during some down time and lots of mystery. Definitely a great game. Love the no pay to play or freemium aspect. True game.
We're not typically into crafting but crashlands got us into this. Seems great so far.
Of all mining games Mines of Mars is WOW.
Had a friend tell us to get the game was a little skeptical at first due to other games that we've bought not being up to par but this game is amazing, by far one of the best games we've ever bought on iOS and recommend that everybody else did as well. Very easy to understand controls as well as gameplay,.
Great game, we've killed way too much time with it.
Not a bad game for the price. Good graphics, nice music, relaxing atmosphere. Controls are a little strange, but work for the game. Only suggestion would be better mineral placement and increased number of enemies, also starting out with a better ammo amount would be nice.
Great graphics! Good tutorial. Very addictive.
We really enjoy this game! What more can be said? It's a must play.
Can play for hours. Well designed. Started on the phone and loved it so much had to cone on the iPad.
This is a great game to chip away at when you're wanting to pass time. It's not so heavily involved that you spend too much time grinding for crafting materials. Love the art style and sound as well.
An atmospheric, fun, unforgettable exploration based mining game set on the red planet! We really recommend this game, we assure you it's worth the money! Also if you want to try it for free there is a free "demo" version you can download. Awesome game.
We were a little skeptical but soon we found ourselves digging deeper and deeper and exploring further and further and now we can't wait to find what else is down there.
So far it looks like a fun little casual explore.
PLEASE READ!Great game,great graphics,pretty much everything about it is great!But we think you should put a update to it;)you should put new bosses and new weaponsThank you.
Pick this rockin title up. Digging it.
If you got that reference, you're cool, if not, well.
Gotta say, better than we expected and pretty addictive.
Gameplay is fun, and scenery is great. Controls could use some refinement, and the distribution of resources leaves a bit to be desired. Overall, great bang for the buck.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.01
- Size: 104.90 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Crescent Moon Games LLC
Last updated: 20th December 2018 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Crescent Moon Games LLC