60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mining, Automation, Simulation, Strategy.
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
INCREMINER
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Mountainhall
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.
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Dwarves 20% ★, Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Underground 11.2% ★
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: Dwarves 21.6% ★, Mining 16.4% ★, Automation 14.1%, Underground 12.7% ★, Colony Sim 9.4%
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: Automation 19.6%, Steampunk 16.1% ★, Underground 14.2% ★, Mining 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 12%
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Steampunk 17% ★, Automation 16.4%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Mining 9.9% ★, Crafting 8%
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: Automation 25.7%, Mining 22.9% ★, Underground 14% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Management 9%
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: Automation 24.5%, Mining 24.4% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Steampunk 11.3% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Management 9.6%
Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!
Why similar: Mining 26% ★, Automation 23.4%, Underground 20.7% ★, Crafting 8.5%, Management 8.3%
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: Automation 29.1%, Mining 28.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 24.9% ★, Underground 17% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Management 12%, Sandbox 10.2%
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Mining 16.7% ★, Management 15.1%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.4%
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
Why similar: Dwarves 29% ★, Mining 25.4% ★, Automation 24.5%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 4.5%
SteamTopia is a casual, steampunk factory-building game, set in a world where money and factory expansion are the only things that matters. But even in this harsh world friends are important and playing co-op makes everything even better.
Why similar: Steampunk 43.3% ★, Automation 35.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 4.3%, Top-Down 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 33.1% ★, Automation 26%, Underground 10.2% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
Manage your own dwarven mine. Give orders to miners excavating ore and builders providing them with ladders to get deeper and deeper into the underground. Mine iron, copper and even mithrill to satisfy the needs of the dwarven kingdom for the price of a single coffee.
Why similar: Dwarves 36.9% ★, Mining 25.7% ★, Underground 14.7% ★, Management 10.8%, Colony Sim 6.3%
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: Mining 19% ★, Automation 18%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Management 10.7%, Crafting 9%
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Mining 13.5% ★, Management 13.2%, Strategy 8.4%
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 30.5% ★, Underground 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 4.8%
Earth is gone. The fleet is hungry. Drop a Hub on a generated claim, find the seam, and let the robots dig. Every machine you build makes noise — and noise is how the machines that took the planet find you. Hold the line, launch with the take, sell it, and go deeper.
Why similar: Mining 27.4% ★, Automation 26.8%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Underground 11.3% ★, Strategy 6.6%
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 24.9% ★, Automation 21.4%, Underground 13.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Crafting 9.2%
Outpost engineer is a first person factory automation game set on a volcanic island. Build your base, dig into the terrain, use assembly lines to automate production. Explore, study and catalogue.
Why similar: Steampunk 26.8% ★, Automation 23.4%, Mining 23.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Management 5.7%
Build automated factories in a bright afterlife. Mine, belt, power, and produce at massive scale, then defend your work from the spirits it attracts. A third-person factory game of automation, base building, and tower defense.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 24.4%, Management 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 31.3%, Mining 22.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 6.2%
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: Automation 30.9%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Management 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 9.7%
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 26.9% ★, Automation 22.9%, Underground 19.2% ★, Management 12.3%, Strategy 5.9%
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Why similar: Dwarves 36.1% ★, Mining 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 4.6%
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 21.1%, Mining 13.3% ★, Underground 12.1% ★, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Dwarves 44.7% ★, Automation 14.8%, Mining 12.1% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Colony Sim 8%
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: Automation 22.6%, Mining 21.1% ★, Underground 17.9% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Management 8.8%
An idle miner at galactic scale. Drop thousands of dwarves onto a planet and watch it disappear. No fail states, no lost progress, no rush - just automated mining, upgrades and numbers that always climb
Why similar: Mining 26.8% ★, Automation 21.6%, Dwarves 16.5% ★, Management 12.3%, Colony Sim 8.6%
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 35%, Mining 15.1% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 10.1%
Build an epic kingdom inside a mountain in this underground city builder. Mine and build in a vast procedurally generated 3D world. Gather resources, research technology, train warriors and engineers, forge weapons, fight monsters and manage hundreds of units. Become the King of the Dwarves!
Why similar: Dwarves 24.7% ★, Underground 14.6% ★, Automation 14.4%, Mining 14% ★, Colony Sim 12.1%
Manage an underground tavern tucked away in a side alley of an ancient dwarven mining city, where rough but jovial miners gather to fill bellies and lift their voices, mugs, and sometimes their fists.
Why similar: Dwarves 39.3% ★, Mining 22.8% ★, Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Crafting 8.4%
Drill into the depths of a meteor crater in this incremental adventure. Mine ores, unlock upgrades and find the cosmic treasure that lies below! Can you uncover what happened to the Moles that came before you?
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Automation 22.4%, Underground 19.8% ★, Management 13.6%, Strategy 6.1%
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 31.1%, Mining 16.8% ★, Management 13.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Simulation 6.6%
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: Automation 22.5%, Mining 16.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.1%
A top-down incremental logistics and tower-defense game. Mine resources, produce ammunition, build tracks toward the exit, and upgrade your mobile furnace and turret while defending it from underground swarms.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Mining 21.2% ★, Underground 14.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Management 9.9%
Build a massive factory aboard a moving ark. Melt, separate, and refine chaotic scrap using realistic thermodynamics. Process materials by mass instead of items, craft based on material properties, and optimize complex production lines in strictly limited space.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Steampunk 25.8% ★, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Strategy 5.8%
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: Automation 28.2%, Mining 26% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.
Why similar: Dwarves 42% ★, Mining 21.9% ★, Underground 16.8% ★, Crafting 9%, Top-Down 3%
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Steampunk 22.9% ★, Mining 10.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Automation 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 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 33% ★, Automation 28.2%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
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: Automation 28.6%, Mining 25.6% ★, Underground 18.2% ★, Management 9.3%, Strategy 6.2%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Management 15.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Strategy 8%
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 35.2% ★, Automation 21.7%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 22.4%, Automation 18.8%, Dwarves 13.8% ★, Underground 9.1% ★, Simulation 7.8%
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 41.7%, Crafting 18.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 7.9%
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: Automation 28.7%, Mining 24.3% ★, Management 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
Starting with a lonely Dwarf, endlessly mine to gather materials and use them to progress farther. Have more Dwarves join in, craft resources, face enemies and more! The mines of the idle Dwarves await you!
Why similar: Dwarves 33.3% ★, Mining 26.8% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.5%
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 39.3% ★, Underground 16.5% ★, Crafting 14%, Simulation 8.8%, Sandbox 6.8%
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Mining 12.1% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.7%
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 33.6% ★, Underground 25.8% ★, Automation 15.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
Forge your destiny and craft legends. Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is your journey into the heart of craftsmanship. Dive into the enchanting world of a blacksmith, mine ores, create legendary weapons, arm heroes and send them on quests for loot and profit. The forge awaits!
Why similar: Dwarves 28.2% ★, Mining 22.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Management 10%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Management 19.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Sandbox 6.1%
Return to Nangrim is a dark first-person survival adventure set in an abandoned dwarven world. Explore an ancient mountain kingdom, gather resources, forge tools and weapons, cook, brew, and practice alchemy as you try to reclaim the mountains with your animal companion.
Why similar: Dwarves 44.5% ★, Mining 19.7% ★, Underground 15% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 5.9%
Mine, upgrade, and Dig Deeper. A first-person idle-like progression game where you carve through rock, collect ore, and become an unstoppable dwarven force.
Why similar: Dwarves 42.4% ★, Mining 27.5% ★, Underground 21.7% ★, Sandbox 5.1%, Exploration 2.9%
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 24.2% ★, Underground 16.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Management 12.6%, Automation 10.6%
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Mining 15.1% ★, Management 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%
