# Miner Gun Builder — A lighthearted arcade shooter.

> Space arcade shooter with weapon customization and ship building. (iPhone/iPad app by GERMAPUR APPS PTE. LTD..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/miner-gun-builder/id1578167447 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [GERMAPUR APPS PTE. LTD.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1578167449)
- Category: Games, Action, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.91/5 from 152 App Store ratings · 33 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 176 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2022-05-12
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/miner-gun-builder/id1578167447/reviews.md

## What is Miner Gun Builder?

This is my first app. I put a lot of effort in it, hope you like it :)

You are the captain of a space ship and fly through missions to earn money. With the money you can buy parts to build your weapon in your space ship. You can also buy bigger and better ships which can fit more parts. Building a small weapon is straight forward, but later you can build extremely strong weapons if you use the available space wisely.

Features of Miner Gun Builder are:
- 8 Captains with custom skills
- 100 handmade missions
- Infinite procedural created worlds
- 50+ Ships
- 51 Achievements
- 52 Weapon components
- 73 skills in the skill-tree
- Your own alliance you can invite friends into
- over 1.000.000.000.000 possible weapons !!!

The game is a light-hearted version of an arcade space shooter and has substantial depth regarding the mechanics.

If you like to tinker around and optimize stuff - This is the game for you.

## Key features

- Build custom weapons
- Upgrade spaceships
- Pilot through missions
- Procedurally generated worlds
- Alliance system
- Skill tree

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Value Pack | $4.99 | one-time |
| No Ads | $13.99 | one-time |
| Small premium ship | $13.99 | one-time |
| Buy 100 yellow squares | $2.99 | one-time |
| Buy 100 red crosses | $2.99 | one-time |
| Buy 1000 red crosses | $13.99 | one-time |
| Small projectile pack | $9.99 | one-time |
| Small ship pack | $13.99 | one-time |
| Small cloud ship | $2.99 | one-time |
| Big Cloud ship | $9.99 | one-time |
| Cloud ship pack | $13.99 | one-time |
| Refla Pack | $13.99 | one-time |
| Big ship pack | $69.99 | one-time |
| Medium Cloud ship | $6.99 | one-time |
| Big Spaceius ship | $9.99 | one-time |
| Big Refla ship | $9.99 | one-time |
| Medium ship pack | $40.99 | one-time |
| Small Spaceius Ship | $2.99 | one-time |
| Small Refla ship | $2.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 33)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/miner-gun-builder/id1578167447/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Addicted

*2026-04-29, version 3.1.128*

Found this game years ago and just remembered it, I have logged 6 hours on it so far today.

### 5/5 — Genuinely amazing game

*2026-03-28, version 3.1.128*

It’s what it says on the tin and more. If you got time, play it.

### 5/5 — Tuff

*2026-02-01, version 3.1.128*

Game

### 5/5 — best

*2025-12-26, version 3.1.128*

w game best game oat

### 3/5 — It outdated

*2025-11-26, version 3.1.128*

There lack feature on apple but android has more feature and updated

### 5/5 — Best game on iOS

*2025-09-08, version 3.1.128*

Insanely good. I made a comment years ago on the Google play store and I remember the dev responded. Incredible.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2025-08-25, version 3.1.128*

This game is absolutely delightful! I’ve been playing for years now and I love it! Quite Grindy however.

### 5/5 — Good game

*2025-05-01, version 3.1.128*

No adds and fun

### 5/5 — One of the best mobile games

*2025-04-12, version 3.1.128*

Surprising amount of depth math and optimization in here! Play it!

### 5/5 — It’s stupid that you have to pay on steam but it’s free on mobile

*2025-02-12, version 3.1.128*

👆

## Frequently asked questions about Miner Gun Builder

### What is Miner Gun Builder?

Miner Gun Builder is a lighthearted arcade space shooter where you pilot a spaceship through missions to earn money. This currency can be used to buy parts and build custom weapons for your ship, as well as purchase bigger ships that can fit more components.

### What are the main features of Miner Gun Builder?

Key features include building over a trillion possible weapons using 52 unique components, piloting 50+ different ships, completing 100 handmade missions, and exploring infinite procedural worlds. The game also offers 8 captains with custom skills and a deep skill tree with 73 skills.

### How is Miner Gun Builder monetized?

The game is free to download and play, but it includes in-app purchases for optional items or upgrades. It also features advertisements.

### Who is Miner Gun Builder for?

This game is ideal for players who enjoy tinkering, optimizing, and building complex systems within an arcade space shooter framework. It appeals to those who like to experiment with weapon designs and ship configurations.

### Can I play with friends in Miner Gun Builder?

Yes, the game allows you to create your own alliance and invite friends to join. This social feature can enhance the gameplay experience.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.1.128 — 2023-06-19

Big update. Tournament mode in the world map and reworked captains plus a map editor.

### 2.1.96 — 2022-08-12

Hotfix:
- Portal item bug
- Faction item purchasing bug

### 2.1.95 — 2022-08-08

=== Summer Balance Update ===

- 9 new premium ships for purchase.
- 3 new rC premium ships as part of new rC packs.

Performance improvement:

- Optimized world map.
- Optimized blocks shader and damage computation.

UI Update:

- New top left corner button to access user profile and settings.
- Added sounds and sound controls support.
- Map end summary screen:
 Added Money and YS multiplier, including multiplier contributions from items.
 Added effective block damage breakdown.
    The summary screen is enabled for Wave mode.
- Updated ship descriptions.
- Added game world-related ad messages on the 2X banner. 
- Reduced the initial scale of the ship build menu.
- Added top wave reached in waves menu.
- More accurate ship's polygon hitbox.
- Added menu bar tooltips and their related settings.
- Improved tutorial.
- A list of help pages button in the profile menu.
- Updated the MGB Store help page with the new ships.
- Updated help guide for items in the buy page, which scrolls to the selected item automatically.
- Updated names of items.
- Added commander ship image to the leaderboards.

Item Balance:

- Straightening and sideways items: Enable interactions with other items that change projectile paths.
- Left and right curve items:
    Perk 1: Reduced damage to 30% down from 40%.
- +100 damage legendary item:
    Perk 1: +100 damage.
Perk 2: Adds 50*X damage where X is the path length from the projectile generator to itself.
- Damage for slower projectile item:
    Changed damage range to: x3 damage at 0.1 speed to x0.9 damage at 1.5 speed.
    Perk 1: x0.9 damage at 3 speed to x3 damage at 7 speed. (i.e. More damage for faster projectiles.)
- Increased money cost for legendaries.
- Lifetime damage legendary: 
 Perk 2: Increased to 4x damage at the last stage and no damage reduction.
- Tier damage legendary: 
    Perk 2: Increased damage cap to 400 from 200.
- Damage when lower legendary: 
    Reduced damaged multiplier to 6x from 8x.
- Combine projectile legendary: 
    Perk 1: Adds an additional count of pierce and bounce type items if they are slotted.
- AOE items: 
    Increased damage penalty to 6% from 4%. 
    Perk 1: Damage penalty increased to 3% from 2%.
- Projectile magnet perk 1: 
    Reduce damage multiplier to 1.5x from 2x.
- Projectile aligns direction perk 1: 
    Increased damage multiplier to 2x from 30%.
- Projectile magnet line in front of ship: 
    Shifted projectiles being propelled upwards to perk 1.
- Money item reworked: 
50% more money and 6% more yellow squares earned per map.
    Only the highest ys multiplier value from a path will be used. Stacks addictively along a path.
- Random curve item:
    Perk 2: Curves path is fixed.
- Balanced projectile spread and curves items perk damages.
- Crisscross Legendary
    Perk 3: Direction changes every 0.1s instead.
    Perk 4 to: Adds 5% more damage per direction change, up to 20 times.

Other Fixes:

- Fixed achievement UI money values.
- Reduced the maximum shield size visual.
- Fixed the all time cleared and unlocked worlds stats not updating.

### 2.0.71 — 2022-06-01

- Join 3 faction to unlock new ships, items and mission
- You will encounter mutated blocks in higher Tiers of the world map
- World map supports now touch gestures

Find all changes at https://germapurapps.com/?page_id=575

### 1.0 — 2022-05-13

No release notes.

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