Lemmings was one of the first games I fell in love with. It was totally different from the fast-paced platformers I was used to, but I had a blast ushering those little green-haired fellows from level to level -- not to mention occasionally dropping them in lava. Micro Miners provides a similar kind of rush, although I didn't see a single creature with goofy hair color. What gives?
Micro Miners owes its existence to Markus "Notch" Persson, but not in the way you might think. Far from being one among the many blocky world-building sandboxes operating in the shadow of Minecraft, Jean-Philippe Sarda's fifth game digs deeper. Its muse is Miners4K, a little known java game developed by Notch in 2006. The result is something completely original; a gem excavated from the finds of the past.