- Publisher: Keen Software House Ltd
- Release Date: Nov 28, 2012
- Also On: Xbox 360
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Jun 10, 201372Fans of the old Descent games will go mental, no doubt about it. Miner Wars 2081 will also be a blast for gamers that want a sci-fi space shooter with an interesting story, charming setting and solid gameplay. [March 2013]
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Dec 21, 201270Miner Wars 2081 is maybe a little bit disharmonic but it's still a pretty great space concert. [Christmas 2012]
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Dec 14, 201270Miner Wars 2081 suffers the indie games syndrome: it longs for the million dollars mainstream look. If there were no megalomaniac visions resulting in flaws and faults, we could probably play the best space shooter of the recent years.
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Feb 20, 201360Miner Wars is a game with great potential, perhaps wasted. Defects are many: poor IA, complex level design, technical sector not great increase the sense of frustration that might have been.
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Dec 27, 201260Bugs and dodgy design decisions don't quite negate the novelty of spaceshipping in confined spaces.
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Mar 7, 201350Developer Keen Software House has overextended its reach. [March 2013, p.90]
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Dec 14, 201250Somewhere inside Miner Wars 2081 is an incredibly ambitious, frighteningly absorbing space game. As is, however, Keen Software's long-in-the-making opus feels like a half-complete realization of that vision.
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Jan 29, 201340There is no way Miner Wars 2081 is a modern reincarnation of the Descent series. It is a flawed, incomplete product that somehow was approved in Steam Greenlight.
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Jan 8, 201330The systems that should have been its biggest draws are relegated to one-trick sideshows, while the majority of the game is just one dreary combat engagement after another.