- #1 Odd Realm
97% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Mining 16.7% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #2 Cobalt Miner
96% matchMixed44% of 27 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 26.3% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #3 Hammerting
96% matchMixed57% of 2,601 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Mining 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #4 Food Industry
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Automation 15.6%, Agriculture 14% ★, Trading 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #5 Factor Y
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Automation 18.4%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 8.2%
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Economy 10.4%
- #7 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Underground 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Exploration 3.8%
- #8 Mountainhall
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Deepmountain Studios
Windows · Linux
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Mining 17.9% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Automation 11.6%, Underground 11.2% ★, Trading 10.5%
- #9 Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Games
Windows · Mac
Craft, defend, and conquer in Colony! Solo or with friends. Engage in battles against rival colonies, harness automation for efficient production, explore new islands with new resources, and master the art of survival. Don't wait, your colony needs you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Mining 21.4% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 8.7%
- #10 Manufactur’ inc.
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Agriculture 10.7% ★
- #11 CircuitVeil
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #12 Dungeon D14
91% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #13 Necromancer's Workshop
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Shop Keeper 12.5% ★, Economy 8.5%
- #14 Truck City
86% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Automation 16.3%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #15 Survival Vacancy
88% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 15.6%, Mining 15% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #16 SeaColony
84% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 15%, Economy 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #17 Space Architect
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Automation 16%, Mining 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 8.1%
- #18 Vilset
87% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.4%
- #19 Malignus
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Mining 12.3% ★, Underground 9% ★, Simulation 7.1%
- #20 Deep Space Outpost
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: Niris Games
Windows · Linux
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Mining 19.2% ★, Trading 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 8.9%
- #21 Death By FrostByte
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.8%, Underground 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #22 Dig a Little Deeper
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Mining 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #23 Industronaut
81% 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 23.8% ★, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%
- #24 My Drug Cartel
80% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Automation 16.4%, Agriculture 13.6% ★, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #25 Underground Nomads
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Automation 12.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 8.6%
- #26 Automation Empire
82% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 15%, Mining 13.3% ★, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #27 Rustbound
77% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Wylde Wisp Games
Windows
Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Shop Keeper 14.5% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #28 Skyberry Garden
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Automation 22.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #29 MineMogul
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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 25.4% ★, Automation 20.9%, Underground 12.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #30 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #31 Flow Factory
77% 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: Automation 23%, Mining 22.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%
- #32 Planet Gemini
75% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #33 Illuminaria
79% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #34 Idlings
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Automation 18.3%, Underground 15.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #35 Bouncekraft
74% 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #36 Ecliptica
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QuasarApp Group
Windows · Linux
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Trading 10.3%, Economy 10.1%
- #37 AFTERMATH: Bunker Trader
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Daxin
Windows
A simulation game where your bunker becomes the safe space survivors need. Trade and craft items - organize them in storage. Scavenge the surface yourself and hire personnel to send on expeditions. Become the ultimate trading hub in this post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 18.8% ★, Underground 18.1% ★, Trading 15.4%, Economy 9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 GUILDMAKER
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LEONAN
Windows
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Shop Keeper 13.3% ★, Automation 8.4%, Resource Management 8%, Simulation 7.9%
- #39 Dig & Deal
71% 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 24.2% ★, Trading 16.9%, Underground 15.6% ★, Shop Keeper 14.9% ★, Economy 12.7%
- #40 Stationeers
76% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Mining 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, Automation 14.5%, Agriculture 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #41 Motile Works
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Mining 15.2% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #42 Factoriant
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #43 Hearthkeeper
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Prancing Death Studios
Windows
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Mining 24.7% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #44 Black Market INC.
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 11.7%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #45 Oxygen: First Breath
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 16.4%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #46 BOREWORKS
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Mining 16.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #47 VEINFORGE
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: LIU CHENGXI
Windows
Mine, forge, sell, and upgrade. Run an underground smithy, unlock nine resources and 43 craftable items, recruit assistants, and turn short mining runs into a working production line.
Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Shop Keeper 11.3% ★
- #48 Galaxy Scavengers
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Automation 11.4%, Survival 10.3%
- #49 Microtopia: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #50 Dawn Apart
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Automation 23.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Strategy 4.4%
- #51 Calmaria: Wild Growth
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ryzo Harbor
Windows
Build and grow your settlement across a procedural archipelago. Gather resources, recruit settlers, automate production and transport, explore new islands and dungeons, find better gear, and prepare your base for the threats ahead.
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Automation 15.4%, Agriculture 13.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%
- #52 ALL WILL FALL
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #53 Steam & Stones
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Automation 17.3%, Mining 16.2% ★, Underground 13.5% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #54 Breadoria
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #55 BERGWERK - A Mining Sim
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hindsight StudiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
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.
Why similar: Mining 32.1% ★, Underground 20% ★, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 8.6%
- #56 Paystreak
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Northwright Games
Windows
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.8%, Automation 20.1%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 8%
- #57 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7%
- #58 Woks & Works
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Quaternion Labs
Windows
Build and automate your restaurant empire. Manage chefs, customers, supplies, and production chains in a living food economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Shop Keeper 22.7% ★, Automation 13%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9%
- #59 Oreguard: Mining Endeavors
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noditot
Windows
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 31.3% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%