Games Like Drill Core

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, Roguelike 22.6%, Space 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the core loop of mining for resources to upgrade your defenses against waves of alien attackers.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.4%, Roguelite 16.3%, Roguelike 11.5%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling roguelite features a mobile mining base that must be defended while you explore and extract resources.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Roguelite 11.7%, Roguelike 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automation and tower defense mechanics, requiring you to build efficient production lines to survive enemy waves.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 7%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulation that focuses on building and managing a space station while dealing with resource scarcity and external threats.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you manage a base and defend it against constant threats in a harsh environment.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Roguelite 16.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down mining and defense game where you must dig through destructible terrain to find resources while fending off subterranean enemies.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Space 7.3%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A lunar base-building game that emphasizes mining, automation, and managing the logistics of a colony on the moon.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling base builder shares the same focus on managing resources and expanding your territory while defending against nightly attacks.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, Base Building 25.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at combining resource automation with tower defense, forcing you to build supply chains to fuel your defenses.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Base Building 27.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Exploration 8.7%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends base building, tower defense, and action-oriented exploration on a hostile alien planet.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Base Building 21%, Building 5.7%, Management 5.6%, Resource Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This complex colony sim emphasizes mining, resource management, and survival in a hostile underground environment.

Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Roguelike 15.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical tower defense game that focuses on strategic positioning and resource management in a sci-fi setting.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, Sandbox 23.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: You must mine for materials to build defenses and survive increasingly difficult nightly attacks on an alien world.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Space 9.9%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based city builder that forces you to manage resources and maintain your station while navigating a dangerous galaxy.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, Roguelite 22.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Roguelike 16%, Strategy 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique card-based tower defense game that requires quick strategic decisions to manage your colony and defend against waves.

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 15.9%, City Builder 15%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion of the Kingdom series that maintains the side-scrolling base-building and defense mechanics.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 22.6%, Tower Defense 17.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes strategy game where base building and defensive fortification are the only things standing between you and massive swarms.

A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

Why similar: Roguelike 37.5%, Strategy 23.9%, Space 19.6%, Sci-fi 19%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike strategy game that focuses on ship management and tactical combat against various space threats.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that tasks you with building and managing a self-sufficient base on a remote planet.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, Sandbox 13%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 10.3%, Tower Defense 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with mining and tower defense as you command dwarves to build a fortress and survive.

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 7.1%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building management game where you run a facility dedicated to exploring other worlds through a portal.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city builder that features a distinct underground mining layer where you must extract resources to fuel your surface city.

Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Roguelite 18.8%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 10.1%, Space 9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite strategy game focused on resource management and survival in the depths of space.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 32.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that forces you to make difficult choices to keep your colony alive in a frozen, hostile world.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 35.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation game where you must build and defend your factory against local wildlife that hates your pollution.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Space 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-building strategy game that involves designing your city and defending it with tactical combat.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on building a successful settlement on an alien planet while managing environmental hazards.

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: City Builder 51.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Sandbox 17.1%, Exploration 13%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dungeon management and base building with real-time strategy combat against waves of heroes.

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 21.4%, Roguelike 10.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that uses dice-based mechanics to manage your colony and survive in a harsh environment.

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 7.9%, Space 6.6%

The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, Side Scroller 13%, Roguelite 12.9%, Roguelike 10.5%, Aliens 7.8%

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Base Building 17%, Roguelite 12.6%, Roguelike 12.5%, Strategy 8.4%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Base Building 44.6%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 8.4%, Side Scroller 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic management game where you must scavenge for resources and defend your shelter to keep your family alive.

Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelite 14.4%, Roguelike 11.9%, Strategy 8%

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Roguelite 13.9%, Roguelike 10.8%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 7.1%, Management 7%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 6.1%

Endless Coffee is out! Build your ship, survive 21 Days and break the Universe- Astro Prospector is an incremental bullet hell about mining coffee and fighting SpaceCorp. Collect resources, upgrade your ship and become unstoppable. Return AstroCoffee to humanity!

Why similar: Roguelite 32.2%, Roguelike 28.8%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 15.7%, 2D 6.5%

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Roguelite 14.4%, Building 7.4%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Management 6.8%

Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, Roguelite 14.6%, Roguelike 12.6%, Management 8.3%, Exploration 8%

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Tower Defense 18.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11%, Management 8%

A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Tower Defense 18.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Exploration 6.2%

Galactic Mining Corp is a unique rogue-lite, action game with crafting and base building mechanics. Head into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy work force, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything.

Why similar: Roguelite 21.3%, Base Building 16%, Roguelike 14%, Space 11.6%, Exploration 10.7%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Space 13.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.6%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 18.9%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 6.4%

Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Roguelite 17.4%, Roguelike 9.9%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 9%

Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?

Why similar: Sci-fi 22.5%, Space 22.2%, Exploration 18.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Action 9.5%

Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.

Why similar: Roguelite 40.4%, Roguelike 27.8%, Exploration 23.5%, Action 8.3%

This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Roguelite 14.9%, Roguelike 8.8%, Space 8.7%

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, City Builder 20.1%, Roguelite 11.4%, Roguelike 10.6%, Base Building 8.4%

Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe. Allocate resources, upgrade defenses, and repel relentless enemy attacks! With over 50 unique units and deep strategy, experience real-time tower defense!

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Roguelite 24.9%, Space 12.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Roguelike 16.5%, Roguelite 15.6%, Space 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.6%, Roguelite 18.3%, Roguelike 17.1%, Strategy 14.1%, 2D 2.8%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.1%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Space 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 7%

True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Roguelite 16.5%, Roguelike 14%, Space 9.2%, Strategy 9.2%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Roguelite 27.7%, Roguelike 19.2%, Space 17.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.8%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.8%

'Galaxy Defense War' is a roguelike tower defense game where you need to select suitable galactic principles from randomly dropped heroes and equipment to form a combat-ready team to resist alien invaders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, Roguelite 20.2%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 13.7%, Aliens 7.1%