- #1 MineMogul
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,213 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Underground 17.9% ★, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 7.9%
- #2 Gold Mining Simulator
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 16,339 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Why similar: Mining 39.4% ★, Simulation 18.3%, Open World 9.7%, Realistic 8.1%, Driving 7.2%
- #3 The Long Mine
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Lynx
Windows
Minimal UI, maximum physics. Break rocks apart, move the chunks by hand, and collect the ore. Explore deeper caves, scan its quality, then smelt, craft, sell, and gamble your EXP on unpredictable perks.
Why similar: Mining 35.1% ★, Underground 23% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 7.6%
- #4 MORA Mining for freedom
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oduvan
Windows
You’re trapped in a mine, forced to repay the debt left behind by your late grandfather. Dig, explore, build, and earn your way out — one rock at a time.
Why similar: Mining 29.4% ★, Underground 20.9% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Building 5.8%
- #5 Bunker Constructor Simulator
94% matchMixed46% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Terno Games
Windows
Become a bunker builder: take on contracts from the government and local residents, construct underground rooms and furnish them. Grow your business and work toward your ultimate goal — buying your own home and building a fully protected underground bunker.
Why similar: Mining 25% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Building 8.5%
- #6 Hydroneer
94% matchVery Positive86% of 28,368 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 32.7% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Automation 12.4%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%
- #7 Mine Digger
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mine Digger
Windows
Mine Digger is a minimalist mining game where you dig deeper, uncover hidden riches, upgrade your tools, and turn a simple hole in the ground into a profitable underground empire.
Why similar: Simulation 24%, Sandbox 22%, Underground 21.9% ★, Building 11.1%, Economy 9%
- #8 Dignaut
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Angle Games
Windows
Dignaut is a chill sci-fi space adventure where you drill into alien terrain to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore a mysterious planet with multiple biomes, upgrade your gear, and uncover the secrets of an ancient, buried alien civilization.
Why similar: Mining 36.1% ★, Underground 31.6% ★, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 6.4%, First-Person 4.3%
- #9 Mithril
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Agentic Games
Windows
Mithril is a voxel mining survival game where the cave never stops changing. Mine with claws. Build machines. Survive what hunts you. Then trigger Dormancy and watch a million years of geology rewrite the map. Same base. New danger. The world remembers.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Underground 21.6% ★, Automation 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #10 Gold Mining Simulator - Definitive Edition
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Gold Mining Simulator: Definitive Edition is the ultimate version of the game, featuring all previously released expansions plus new content, gameplay enhancements, visual improvements, and numerous quality of life upgrades for the most complete gold mining experience.
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Simulation 20.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Driving 8.6%, Economy 7.5%
- #11 Rich Lands
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thorium Studio
Windows
Become the richest person in the land! Operate various vehicles to extract precious resources from the land to produce and sell goods, expand your properties, and grow your business in an unpredictable open world!
Why similar: Mining 32.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Driving 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Open World 9.2%
- #12 Eureka
90% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Coding Duck
Windows
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Mining 26.1% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Economy 10.1%, Open World 9.5%
- #13 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
87% matchVery Positive90% of 1,432 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 36.5% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 12.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 7.1%
- #14 Coal Mining Simulator
89% matchMostly Negative34% of 183 reviews2023
Dev: GamePlanet
Windows
Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
Why similar: Mining 38.6% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Open World 9.3%, Driving 8.4%
- #15 Miner's Nook
86% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: 三百兩Pub: leveluppublisher
Windows
"Miner's Nook" is a strategic idle game blending probability management. Start by clicking, then recruit miners to automate. Use the unique "Destiny Panel" to adjust event odds. Don't leave it to fate—control your luck and build your mining empire.
Why similar: Underground 46.1% ★, Mining 45.2% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #16 Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue
88% matchMixed66% of 308 reviews2022
Dev: Grande GamesPub: GamePlanet
Windows
Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
Why similar: Mining 37.7% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Open World 9.9%, Driving 8.6%
- #17 Terra Physics & Money
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Touro Loco
Windows
Explore a fully destructible procedural world made of millions of physics-driven blocks. Simulate water, lava, and steam, extract resources, build freely, and trade your materials. Every random seed creates a unique experience.
Why similar: Mining 31.7% ★, Underground 24.7% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%
- #18 Dig For Riches
85% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
Dig For Riches is a realistic mining simulation. Dig the earth, extract valuable minerals, haul them to the surface by cart and sell them. Use your earnings to upgrade your equipment, dig deeper, and face increasing dangers.
Why similar: Mining 32% ★, Underground 28.9% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Economy 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%
- #19 Buried Cargo
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Siar Games
Windows
Buried Cargo is a terminal-driven automation game. Wake up as a lone maintenance robot buried beneath a dead world. Use real command-line interface to control machines, extract scrap, and build your automation network.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Underground 23.6% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 7.1%
- #20 Digger Sandbox
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Park Productions
Windows
Dig, build, and experiment in a physics-driven sandbox where heavy machinery meets creativity. Operate real construction vehicles, sculpt terrain with simulated dirt blocks, and team up with friends in a persistent diggable world.
Why similar: Mining 32.3% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Driving 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 11%
- #21 Dig Inc.
83% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: TematusPub: ARC51
Windows
Dig Inc. is a game about managing your mining company. Mine for resources in a procedurally generated map, fill your increasing daily quotas, and sell ores raw, or set up production between runs to refine them for higher profits. Invest your earnings into a growing talent tree.
Why similar: Mining 31.7% ★, Underground 25.8% ★, Automation 11%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 9.6%
- #22 Core Diggers
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gap Zero Games
Windows
Core Diggers is a co-op sci-fi digging game for up to 6 players. Explore an alien planet, excavate rare minerals, discover underground alien artifacts, sell your haul, and upgrade your tools and gear. Work together, dig deeper, and uncover what lies at the planet’s core.
Why similar: Mining 33% ★, Underground 20.9% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 6.3%
- #23 Meltopia
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,648 reviews2026
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
Why similar: Mining 32.5% ★, Underground 29.3% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Economy 5.1%
- #24 Deep Pockets
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Mining 41.7% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Automation 8%
- #25 Bouncekraft
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 40.1% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 10.9%, Automation 10.1%
- #26 Mining My Own Business
80% match4 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: MemaHertz
Windows
Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?
Why similar: Mining 42.7% ★, Underground 32.1% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 3.7%, First-Person 2.9%
- #27 DRILLMASTER 9000
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Petardia Productions
Windows
Dig, collect resources, upgrade your drill and multitool, go deep underground and find a powerful shiny object.
Why similar: Mining 36.4% ★, Underground 24.3% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 6.1%
- #28 Off-World Prospecting
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prospector Games
Windows
Off-World Prospecting is a game about exploring and striking out on your own on an alien planet, and becoming the ultimate prospector as you survey the land for valuable fauna, minerals, artifacts and more, and search for your long missing sister in an uncaring yet endlessly enticing landscape.
Why similar: Mining 40.8% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, Underground 14.9% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Physics 5.6%
- #29 Digging Out
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Logic Liminal
Windows
Digging Out is a realistic co-op digging game for up to 8 players. Work together to dig a tunnel, upgrade your tools, and break into the bank. Every shovel counts plan smart, dig deep, and pull off the perfect underground heist.
Why similar: Mining 47.6% ★, Sandbox 25.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Realistic 7.8%, First-Person 7.2%
- #30 Infinity Islets
77% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Suspicious Penguin
Windows
Dig. Discover. Collect. Create. From robots to bananas, discover random interdimensional artifacts and craft exhibits limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Underground 26.2% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.1%
- #31 Roody:2d
78% matchPositive98% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: redinator2000
Windows
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Mining 22.1% ★, Underground 15% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Automation 12.4%, Building 9.3%
- #32 Another Game About Digging A Hole
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: myownyose
Windows
A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet. Collect resources, sell them and upgrade your equipment - discover all available resources!
Why similar: Mining 36.5% ★, Underground 21.6% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Economy 10.4%
- #33 DIG
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alkame Games
Windows
Dig, discover, and compete in this digging hole adventure! Unearth rare treasures, sell your findings, upgrade your gear, expand holes uncover hidden secrets beneath the surface. Who will dig the deepest?
Why similar: Mining 30.7% ★, Underground 27.4% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Economy 10%, Simulation 7.1%
- #34 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sticklen Games
Windows
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Mining 30.9% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Automation 10.9%, Economy 10%, Building 9.7%
- #35 A Game About Digging A Hole™
73% matchVery Positive89% of 19,995 reviews2025
Dev: DoubleBeePub: rokaplay select
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Underground 26% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Economy 9.1%
- #36 16 Bit Gold
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LongPig Studio
Windows
Build a humble gold mining business from the ground up. Pan dirt, process ore, automate production and transform an overgrown claim into a thriving mining operation - one gold bar at a time.
Why similar: Mining 47.5% ★, Simulation 22.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 3%
- #37 Out of Ore
74% matchVery Positive86% of 4,116 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 15%, Realistic 9.2%, Building 9.1%
- #38 Roadbound
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoxfenPub: Simulix Games
Windows
Roadbound is an open-world transport and career simulation. Take on jobs, earn money, explore varied locations, roads, companies and a major airport, then invest your profits in buildings and property as you work your way from beginner to transport professional.
Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Sandbox 25.6%, Economy 10.3%, Realistic 10%, Open World 10%
- #39 Machine World 2
77% matchMixed49% of 201 reviews2017
Dev: Trino GamesPub: Trino AB
Windows · Mac
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
Why similar: Simulation 32%, Sandbox 31%, Realistic 15.4%, Open World 12.4%, Building 9.2%
- #40 Dig & Deal
72% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: ToYa Games
Windows
Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find. Upgrade your tools, grow your shop, and make the best deals to build your fortune.
Why similar: Mining 30.6% ★, Underground 27.6% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Economy 11.3%
- #41 CapitalCraft
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChronicAnarchy
Windows
A hands on sci-fi industrial management simulation where you pilot a mining drone refine resources, negotiate contracts, and survive economic pressure with action driven challenges.
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Underground 24.5% ★, Automation 13.8%, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #42 I’m a Wizard, But I Dig
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
Shorten your journey to the castle by digging a tunnel through the mountain. Use magic and craft: swing your pickaxe, cast spells, blow up obstacles, and light your path with glowing slimes. Trade resources with the Goose, unlock new tools, and uncover the mountain's secrets.
Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Simulation 22.5%, Sandbox 22.1%, Underground 19.3% ★, First-Person 5.5%
- #43 Flow Factory
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.6%
- #44 Mineral Mining Simulator
69% matchVery Positive86% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Simulation 21.7%, Sandbox 21.3%, Automation 10.8%, Realistic 8.3%
- #45 Rockfall
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kajter Games
Windows
Rockfall is a 2D mining adventure where you descend into dangerous depths to gather resources, upgrade your gear, and survive hidden dungeons filled with traps, treasure, and danger. Dig deep, explore wisely… and don’t stay underground too long.
Why similar: Mining 51.1% ★, Underground 28.7% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #46 Miner: Dig Deep
71% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2020
Dev: Substance Games
Windows
A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.
Why similar: Mining 38.9% ★, Underground 30.7% ★, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Open World 8.8%
- #47 iCorp
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Mining 29.4% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Automation 14.2%, Economy 11.5%, Building 10%
- #48 Cobalt Miner
68% matchMixed42% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 38.4% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Automation 13.9%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #49 Down There Yet?
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A co-op underground cave mining driving adventure where you and your friends drive, dig, and descend into the depths of a treacherous underground world. Upgrade your equipment and drill vehicle as you make your way down to find the mystery at the core of the planet.
Why similar: Mining 41.7% ★, Underground 22.3% ★, Driving 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Simulation 6.8%
- #50 The Spotter: Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,820 reviews2026
Dev: Puppyroar GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Underground 26.2% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #51 Dust & Diamonds
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SAD Games Studio
Windows
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Mining 32.1% ★, Underground 20% ★, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 8.6%
- #52 LithoBreak
71% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Automation 12.7%, Open World 11.3%, Building 9.2%
- #53 Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 983 reviews2022
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.
Why similar: Mining 36.9% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.1%
- #54 Mining & Tunneling Simulator
73% matchVery Negative19% of 139 reviews2014
Dev: United Independent Entertainment GmbH
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Blast rocks, drill tunnels and force your way through every mountain. At the beginning you have enough time and no major problems. Once the TNT charges are placed you can start the blasting to create the tunnel entrance. The excavated material will be loaded by a shovel dozer on a dump truck and transported to the storage site.
Why similar: Mining 56.8% ★, Simulation 43.2%
- #55 Car Scrapyard Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: T-Bull
Windows
Disassembling a car into parts and selling them later is nothing difficult for you, after all, you are the owner of a cars' scrapyard - and this is Car Scrapyard Simulator! Expand your headquarters full of broken and used cars. Manage your empire - a scrap empire!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.3%, Driving 15.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Open World 13.7%, Economy 13.4%
- #56 Construction World
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Owlsim
Windows
Construction World is a sandbox game that allows you do dig dirt and pave roads anywhere.
Why similar: Simulation 31.6%, Sandbox 28.1%, Building 13.8%, Realistic 13.5%, Open World 12.6%
- #57 Industronaut
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Automation 14.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #58 Spell Alchemist
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: hermurx
Windows
Spell Alchemist is a short incremental resource-gathering and crafting game about digging for resources and processing them into powerful spells. Craft the most powerful healing spell to cure humanity of a mysterious disease.
Why similar: Mining 39% ★, Underground 22.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #59 Miner Shop Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Meerkatt Studio
Windows · Linux
Miner Shop Simulator is a hands-on mining and shop management sim. Dig for resources, refine raw ore into valuable goods, stock your shelves, serve customers, and grow a small mining shop into a thriving business.
Why similar: Mining 44.6% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9%, Realistic 6.7%
- #60 GnomeBoozled
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: PyroPhysics
Windows
Run an illegal gnome disposal business from your backyard. Build absurd traps and conveyor systems to maximize profit, and stop gnomes from sabotaging your shady operation before the whole neighborhood falls into chaos.
Why similar: Underground 30.3% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Automation 14.1%, Economy 11%, Building 10.8%