CastleMiner Z
Released Feb 2014
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
81% positive · 11K reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
CastleMiner Z launched on February 3, 2014 and received a long run of feature updates and content additions through 2016–2017. After a lengthy quiet period, the developer returned in August 2025 with update 1.9.9 (August 20, 2025) and a follow-up bug fix patch 1.9.9.8 (August 25, 2025), explicitly framing these as a send-off for the original game while the team focuses on a full remake.
In their August 20, 2025 update post, DigitalDNA Games stated they are building "CastleMiner Z: Resurrection" — a complete remake in Unreal Engine 5 — and described the 1.9.9 update as giving "the original CastleMiner Z a little love" in preparation for that new project. A trailer for the remake was posted on August 28, 2025. The developer's messaging throughout these posts consistently positions the original game as a finished product, with ongoing activity directed at the upcoming sequel rather than new content for this title.
The original game remains purchasable and functional, but the developer has clearly signaled that new development energy has moved to the Resurrection remake. The last substantive update to this game was the August 2025 bug fix patch, and no further content for the original has been announced or implied.
Evidence
Developer returns after years of silence to release update 1.9.9, explicitly framing it as giving the original game 'a little love' as they prepare for CastleMiner Z: Resurrection, a full remake in Unreal Engine 5. Signals the original game is being wound down.
Developer announces CastleMiner Z: Resurrection — a ground-up remake in Unreal Engine 5 — indicating the team's future focus is on the new title, not the original.
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Developer
Publisher
DigitalDNA Games
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
CastleMiner Z is an online coop survival horror game in a block based environment. Travel with your friends in a huge, ever-changing world and craft modern weapons to defend yourself from dragons and the zombie horde!
Play by yourself or online with friends in any of these exciting game modes:
Worlds can be saved in any game mode (except endurance) so try building a castle with enemies turned off, then grabbing some friends and loading it up with enemies turned on!
Game Play
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.Play by yourself or online with friends in any of these exciting game modes:
- Endurance Mode: There are tales of a place beyond the mountains where Hell itself has torn through. How far can you get before you succumb to the zombies, dragons, skeletons, or other enemies that thirst for your blood? Run, fight, and sneak your way across dry deserts, snowy mountains, and icy expanses on your quest to vanquish the ultimate guardians of the abyss. In Endurance Mode, the world is randomized each game and the death of your party is permanent.
- Survival Mode: If you enjoy Endurance, but would rather build permanent structures and defenses, Survival Mode is where you’ll spend your time.
- Creative Mode: With simplified crafting and the ability to adjust or eliminate the enemy threat, Creative Mode is a great place to build vast structures in peace.
- Dragon Survival Mode: For those who like their trophies big and their hair singed and smoking, Dragon Survival Mode brings you up close and personal with wave after wave of the biggest, meanest, scaliest brutes in the game.
Worlds can be saved in any game mode (except endurance) so try building a castle with enemies turned off, then grabbing some friends and loading it up with enemies turned on!
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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