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Moose Miners
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“This game was actually rathering interesting. I saw many of the comments warning about extremely slow progression, or lack thereof, and "unattainable" achievements or goals after hundreds of hours. However, I picked up the game to give it it a shot, and managed to 100% it in…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“$10? No $5? Yes Also, it only took me 40 hours to get all achievements, and I don't really concentrate on getting those.”
— a player, Steam review · 829 hrs played“The game likes to forget your selection and applies your upgrade to everything, for some reason buying ONE rail upgrade just essentially wastes all your money and sometimes ruins the game itself bc its programmed like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.”
— a player, Steam review · 54 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Hiding things
This is a small update to celebrate the announcement of Moose Builders. It adds a new button in the round button menu at the top right allows controlling the visibility of certain things in the game.
Announcing Moose Builders!
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT Introducing Moose Builders, a factory game about moose crafting solar panels! Grab a shovel, gather your friends, and prove that moose are the greatest engineers in the desert. W
Bug fix
Fixed raw resources not being cleared from the transport platforms when sold by the sell portals
Bug fix
Fixed rail always buying max regardless of amount selected before unlocking lumber processing
Bug fix
Fixed a bug allowing upgrading crafters more than max resulting in wands per batch value rolling over
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Idler · Management · Mining · Resource Management · Economy · Building · Automation · Colony Sim · Capitalism · Base-Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 80 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: WIndows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3 or AMD equivalent with with SSE4.1 support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 Storage: 1 GB available space Additional Notes: for 720p 30 fps.