60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Mining, Sandbox, First-Person.
Build your own mining company in the coal region of Grubental! Construct your colliery above ground, descend into procedurally generated depths, and operate over 15 heavy machines. Master mine statics, infrastructure, complex transport networks, and sell your coal on dynamic markets.
MineMogul
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!
Gold Mining Simulator
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.
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 25.3% ★, Underground 17.8% ★, Automation 11.4%, Sandbox 10%, Building 8%
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 39.1% ★, Simulation 18.2%, Open World 9.9%, Realistic 8.3%, Driving 7.2%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 36.1% ★, Underground 12.7% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Automation 11.3%, Simulation 9.8%
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 29.3% ★, Underground 21% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Building 5.8%
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 24.8% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 9%, Building 8.5%
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 14.6%, Automation 12.1%, Open World 10%, Base Building 8.9%
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 22.1%, Underground 22% ★, Building 11.2%, Economy 8.8%
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 21.5% ★, Simulation 20.6%, Sandbox 17.8%, Driving 8.7%, Building 7.5%
Dig, haul and wash for gold in an open-world heavy machinery simulator. Operate excavators, wheel loaders and bulldozers, reshape the terrain and build your washing setup. Work solo or team up in online co-op to turn untouched ground into a working site.
Why similar: Mining 31.5% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Driving 8.9%, Open World 7.5%
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% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Economy 9.9%, Open World 9.7%
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% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Driving 12.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Open World 9.4%
Explore and mine in procedural caves. Master using struts to delve deeper and support the ceiling before it falls. Build automation chains to process ores. Then manipulate lava and trigger Dormancy to crystallise new ore where lava once flowed. Same world. New cave. New dangers. The world remembers.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Underground 21.5% ★, Automation 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 8.3%
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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Open World 9.5%, Driving 8.5%
Trapped in a pit with a chainsaw, you dig down through the ice, sell what you haul up, and buy upgrades and dynamite to go deeper, faster.
Why similar: Mining 34.1% ★, Underground 30.1% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 6.7%
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 36.1% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Automation 12.4%, Simulation 12%, Building 7.4%
Descend into a persistent mine, extract valuable ores and rare discoveries, manage your tools and cargo, then return to smelt, craft, complete contracts, and expand your operation in this combat-free mining game.
Why similar: Mining 42.7% ★, Underground 20.5% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Economy 5.9%
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 37.4% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, Driving 8.7%
"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 46.3% ★, Mining 45% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Grab your shovel and dig into a world of hidden riches. Destroy the terrain, uncover gold, upgrade your gear, blast through the earth with dynamite, and see how deep you can go.
Why similar: Mining 37.7% ★, Underground 20.9% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Economy 8.9%
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 31.4% ★, Underground 24.6% ★, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 10.8%
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 31.9% ★, Underground 29.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Economy 9.3%
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 23.7% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Automation 10.5%, Base Building 7.1%
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 28.8% ★, Underground 25.9% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 10.4%
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 32.1% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Driving 15.3%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 11%
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 31.8% ★, Underground 26.1% ★, Automation 10.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Economy 9.5%
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 32.9% ★, Underground 21% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 6.2%
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 32.3% ★, Underground 29.4% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Economy 5%
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 41.6% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Automation 7.8%
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 42.5% ★, Underground 32.2% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 3.8%, First-Person 2.9%
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 15.9%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 11%, Automation 9.9%
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 47.4% ★, Sandbox 25.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Realistic 7.9%, First-Person 7.3%
Dig. Discover. Collect. Create. From robots to bananas, discover random interdimensional artifacts and craft exhibits limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Underground 26.2% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.2%
Dig, collect resources, upgrade your drill and multitool, go deep underground and find a powerful shiny object.
Why similar: Mining 36.3% ★, Underground 24.4% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 5.9%
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 40.6% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Underground 14.9% ★, Simulation 9.8%, First-Person 5.7%
Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!
Why similar: Mining 27.7% ★, Underground 24% ★, Automation 9.6%, Open World 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%
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 21.7% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Economy 10.2%
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% ★, Underground 15.1% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Automation 12.1%, Building 9.3%
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 26.1% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Economy 8.9%
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 23.8% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Realistic 9.3%, Building 9.2%
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 30.8% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Automation 10.6%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.8%
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%, Sandbox 25.6%, Open World 10.1%, Realistic 10.1%, Economy 10.1%
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 24.6% ★, Automation 13.5%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 38.5% ★, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9%
Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Simulation 21.7%, Sandbox 21.2%, Automation 10.4%, Realistic 8.3%
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 28.5% ★, Simulation 22.4%, Sandbox 22.2%, Underground 19.4% ★, First-Person 5.5%
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 41.4% ★, Underground 22.3% ★, Driving 13%, Open World 12.7%, Simulation 6.8%
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 17.3%, Automation 16%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.7%
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 50.9% ★, Underground 28.9% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 30.4% ★, Underground 26.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Economy 8.2%
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 18.5%, Automation 13.9%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.2%
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 32.2% ★, Underground 20.2% ★, Automation 11%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%
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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Automation 13.5%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%
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 38.6% ★, Underground 30.7% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Open World 9%
With a sack over your head, four strangers take you to an old dirt-filled well. You don't know who they are, where you are, or what's buried below. All you do know is that you're here for one thing...
Why similar: Mining 41.4% ★, Underground 31.4% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Physics 5.6%
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 15.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Open World 14%, Economy 13.1%
Construction World is a sandbox game that allows you do dig dirt and pave roads anywhere.
Why similar: Simulation 31.3%, Sandbox 28%, Building 13.8%, Realistic 13.6%, Open World 12.8%
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 38.9% ★, Underground 22.5% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 6.7%
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 26.9% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Automation 12.4%, Open World 11.6%, Building 9.2%
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 15%, Automation 14.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%
