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CastleMiner Z, defined as an Action & Adventure game and developed by Digital DNA, was released on November 9, 2011 on the MicrosoftIndie Marketplaceand currently sits at the #1 Indie Game on the entire marketplace with more than 1,000,000 downloads and 34,711 ratings, with an average rating of 5 stars[1]. Both the trial and full game are avaliable on the CastleMiner Z Xbox page for 80 [2] ($1 USD) (although the trial is free) and have a download size of 31.31 MB. It is the successor to another hit indie game (also developed by DigitalDNA) CastleMiner.
Because of the large amount of Indie games, the ESRB does not rate them individually. Instead, they are based on user ratings. CastleMiner Z has been rated as such:
2/3 - Violence
0/3 - Sex
2/3 - Mature Content
Features[]
1 Player Offline
Dolby Digital
Gamemodes[]
Survival- Simple Survival, the undead and dragons try to attack you, you try to survive
Endurance- Your goal is to survive while trying to make it to a certain distance away from your spawn
Dragon Endrurance- Like Endurance except the only enemies are dragons (must be unlocked by killing the undead dragon in endurance)
Creative- Infinite blocks with or without enemies (must be unlocked by promo code)
Online Features[]
2-8 Player Online Cooperative Multiplayer
Xbox Live Indie Game Description[]
The Xbox Live page describes it by saying:
[3] Travel with your Avatar with your friends in a huge spanning and ever-changing world while defending yourself from the zombie horde. Mine the world for resources, to craft the weapons that you will need to survive. Find out why CastleMiner Z was picked as the best of 2011. [4]
The game is prone to corrupting save files. Corrupted save files will likely cause the world to either not load properly or to load and update extremely slowly.