
Ultimately though CastleMiner Z is not designed for solo operators with the most fun to be had in the online cooperative gameplay where you challenge your friends to explore further, share resources and protect each other’s back from danger. While CastleMiner Z adopts random generation there seems to be some logic to the map design with areas closer to your spawn location offering safer environments to those that are further out.

After such difficult fights though CastleMiner Z allows players to retreat to their impenetrable fortress that they’ve built to recover and craft for another day or survival. While your arsenal grows throughout this process so will the strength of enemies as you seek our the rarest resources the game has to offer with the likes of demons and dragons standing in your way during the mid to late stages of the games and complementing the slower moving zombies with a faster and ranged threat. In turn these resources become the structures, torches and tools that will access more mechanics, abilities and ultimately guns. Mechanically this involves the likes of chopping down trees for wood or venturing deep into a randomly generated underground cave to extract the rarer minerals from the ground. Reaching this point of confident zombie defender though is by no means instant in CastleMiner Z with players starting out with no resources and needing to collect from the available game world around them. Unlike other games though CastleMiner Z has an emphasis on gun based combat pushing the game into FPS territory as players craft and utilise a range of modern firearms to fight off the zombie threat that forever lingers in the dark and unexplored areas of the game map.

This CastleMiner Z block based gameplay also features mechanics that are familiar to the genre with zombies roaming around the map requiring players to protect themselves through resource collection and crafting.

While the original CastleMiner was a creatively focused experience the sequel pushes the game into survival orientated gameplay instead aligning it with other games in the genre that offer a survival sandbox experience in a block based game world.
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CastleMiner Z is a sequel to the popular Xbox Live Indie Game of CastleMiner while also bringing the series to the computer environment via Steam.
