The MinerGuy

Dig deep. Build big.
Survive the guardians.

A 2D pixel-art sandbox of mining, crafting, settlements and automation — alone or in co-op with up to 8 friends.

Play / DownloadFree test build · Windows 10/11 x64 View on GitHub

Prefer no installer? Get the portable .zip

7major guardians
8players in co-op
100sof items & recipes
1000skill levels

What awaits underground

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Procedural worlds

Every seed builds a new world: surface, crystal caverns, magma-filled deep mines, oceans with reefs and wrecks, all the way down to the World Core.

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Mine, build, craft

Hundreds of items and recipes, a searchable recipe book, recipe tracking, furniture, slopes and item modifiers.

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Guardians & events

Seven major guardians, biome guardians, invasions, storms, eclipses — and a world that awakens after the finale.

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Settlements

Settlers move into the homes you build, open shops, give quests, raise your settlement rank and go on expeditions.

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Automation & industry

Wiring, logic gates, sensors, minecarts, pipelines, oil refineries, generators, batteries and power grids.

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Ocean depths

Dive with proper gear, sail boats, meet sea creatures and face the Leviathan.

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Atmosphere

Sunlight and shadows, bloom, god rays, underwater caustics, heat haze, cave fog and fireflies.

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Play your way

Keyboard and mouse or XInput controller, rebindable keys, UI scale up to 200%, English and Polish.

Gameplay

Short clips recorded from the real game, version 1.32.1.

Animated logo and the living main menu
Title screen
Digging a tunnel into a crystal grotto with a titanium pickaxe and lighting it with torches
Mining a crystal grotto
Building a small wooden house block by block
Building a house
Crafting a verdanite pickaxe and blade at a field forge, then repairing a worn pickaxe
Crafting and repairs
Fighting the Rootwarden, the ancient forest guardian
Guardian fight
A Tempest on the beach: rain, waves flooding the shore and lightning strikes
Tempest on the beach
Rowing out to sea, blowing the conch and fighting the Leviathan from the boat
The Leviathan at sea
Taking a request from the village blacksmith and handing it in for a reward
Village requests
Flying over the treetops with storm wings
Flying with wings
A second player joins over the network and both dig down side by side
Co-op

Screenshots

Real in-game captures. Click to enlarge.

The starting landscape Exploring a dark cave Inventory and crafting Fighting the Prism Warden The Bloom biome after the Awakening A deep ocean reef The Leviathan Wiring and automation Co-op over LAN A glowing sanctuary An eclipse event The character editor

Better with friends

  1. Host Load a world, press Esc and choose “Open to LAN” or “Open to Internet” to get an invite code.
  2. Join Pick “Multiplayer” in the main menu: choose a LAN game, type an IP address or paste the invite code.
  3. Play Up to 8 players share guardian fights, chat and minimap markers. Dropped players reconnect automatically.
Two players in a co-op session

Want a world that is always on? Run a headless dedicated server: MinerGuy.exe --server "World name"

Get started

System requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • GPU with OpenGL 3.x support
  • About 80 MB of disk space, plus your worlds
  • No .NET install needed — everything is bundled
  • Keyboard + mouse or an XInput controller

Install in a minute

  1. Download TheMinerGuySetup-<version>.exe with the button above.
  2. Run it — no administrator rights needed.
  3. If SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”, click More info → Run anyway (the build is not code-signed yet).
  4. Saves live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\MinerGuy and survive updates.
Play / DownloadLatest release on GitHub

Found a bug?

Testers make the game better. If something breaks, open a bug report and attach %LOCALAPPDATA%\MinerGuy\crash.log if the game crashed.

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