- #1 Hydroneer
97% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.7% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 6.7%
- #2 AETHUS
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #3 MineMogul
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 28.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #4 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.1%
- #5 Star Ores Inc.
94% matchVery Positive82% of 314 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 32.5% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Exploration 6.8%
- #6 The Planet Crafter
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Automation 19.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 9.4%
- #7 Geo
94% matchVery Positive85% of 183 reviews2017
Dev: Windybeard
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Geo is a game about building and expanding an intergalactic mining corporation. Explore uncharted space and discover comets, moons, Planets and gas giants before heading in and drilling the cash out of them! Expand your HQ, build new rooms and facilities to increase your drilling stats.
Why similar: Mining 46.2% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Indie 6.2%
- #8 Outpath
92% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Automation 23.4%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 8.6%
- #9 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 34.3%, Crafting 24.7%, Building 15.5%, Exploration 12.1%, First-Person 9.1%
- #10 Astro Colony
91% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Automation 25%, Base Building 24.5%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.8%
- #11 Prospector
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 18.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 8.7%
- #12 Astrometica
89% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 16.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #13 Nova Lands
89% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 17.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 7.1%
- #14 The Last Caretaker
86% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 18.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #15 Lightyear Frontier
87% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Resource Management 25%, Crafting 19.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%
- #16 Galactic Mining Corp
88% matchVery Positive84% of 933 reviews2021
Dev: Windybeard
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Mining 41.6% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 11.4%, Exploration 9.4%
- #17 Drill Core
85% matchVery Positive85% of 2,374 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Base Building 36.8%, Exploration 15.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #18 Star Crafter
86% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 28.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Automation 15.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%
- #19 Orebound
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 10.9%
- #20 The Crust
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 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: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 20.5%, Building 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #21 Return from Core
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,775 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Mining 24% ★, Base Building 22%, Crafting 13%, Building 6.2%
- #22 Moose Miners
82% matchMixed69% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 145.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 34.7% ★, Automation 19.9%, Resource Management 16.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 8.1%
- #23 Hammerting
83% matchMixed57% of 2,582 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 28.3% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%
- #24 Out of Ore
81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,925 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 32.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 11%, Exploration 9.8%
- #25 Mining Mechs
81% matchVery Positive90% of 2,628 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Why similar: Mining 61.4% ★, Crafting 20.4%, Exploration 10.7%, Adventure 3.2%, Indie 3.1%
- #26 Idle Deepcore
80% matchVery Positive83% of 205 reviews2026
Dev: Bluehood Games
Windows
Idle Deepcore is an incremental mining game where you dig ever deeper, smelt ore into ingots, upgrade your pickaxe and machines, and grow several mines in parallel to build a vast underground industry.
Why similar: Mining 40.6% ★, Automation 28.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Indie 1.9%
- #27 Digger: Galactic Treasures
79% matchVery Positive88% of 682 reviews2025
Dev: RainStyle games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!
Why similar: Mining 67.8% ★, Crafting 14.4%, First-Person 7.1%, Exploration 5.9%, Adventure 4.2%
- #28 Meltopia
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,091 reviews2026
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 60.9% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Exploration 11.9%, First-Person 8.2%, Indie 3.1%
- #29 Fracture Field
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 872 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Mining 43.9% ★, Automation 25.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 2.4%
- #30 Space Drilling Station
77% matchVery Positive92% of 77 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
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: Base Building 34.7%, Resource Management 29.5%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 6%
- #31 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 27.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #32 Skyformer
76% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 8.5%
- #33 Facteroids
77% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Automation 23%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 8%
- #34 Chipmatic
75% matchMixed67% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Molter
Windows · Linux
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 47.9% ★, Automation 29%, Crafting 12.8%, Exploration 5.7%, Strategy 4.3%
- #35 Drill and Delve
74% matchVery Positive91% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: noOne
Windows
You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain. Manage your oxygen and equipment, and uncover the dark mystery buried deep within the mine.
Why similar: Mining 45.7% ★, Exploration 16.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #36 Mr.Mine
74% matchVery Positive92% of 18,415 reviews2020
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 100.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 51.3% ★, Resource Management 18%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 6.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #37 Satisfactory
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 24.8%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Building 7.8%
- #38 Rock Crusher
73% matchVery Positive86% of 333 reviews2025
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.
Why similar: Mining 76.8% ★, Sci-fi 12.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Indie 1.9%
- #39 The Spotter: Dig or Die
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,459 reviews2026
Dev: Puppyroar GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.4 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 46.7% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Exploration 8.4%, First-Person 6.2%
- #40 Builderment
75% matchMixed67% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 18.8%, Crafting 15%, Building 8.4%
- #41 Alaska Gold Fever
71% matchVery Positive81% of 781 reviews2026
Dev: Baked GamesPub: Baked Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 50% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Building 11.5%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 7.2%
- #42 Captain of Industry
72% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 29.7%, Resource Management 22.4%, Base Building 22%, Mining 12.7% ★, Building 5.8%
- #43 Planet Driller
76% matchMixed62% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: Oryzhon StudiosPub: Immanitas Entertainment GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Planet Driller is a mining game where you need to find DarkMatter in order to save the earth. To do this, drill your way through a procedurally generated planet full of minerals that you can sell for cash, then use the cash to upgrade your ship and make the job a lot easier!
Why similar: Strategy 51.8%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 24.1%
- #44 Keep on Mining! - Worlds
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,407 reviews2026
Dev: EagleEye Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Keep on Mining! – Worlds is an incremental mining game where you mine rocks, collect resources, and travel through many unique worlds, finding artifacts, crafting pickaxes, and purchasing many permanent upgrades!
Why similar: Mining 71.9% ★, Resource Management 19.1%, Indie 4.2%, Strategy 3.9%, Singleplayer 1%
- #45 Elsewhere
71% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Farming 21.5% ★, Mining 20.2% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #46 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 8.3%
- #47 Automation Empire
73% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Mining 16.6% ★, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #48 Planet Miner
73% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Exploration 41.5%, Adventure 28.3%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #49 DigDigDrill
69% matchVery Positive95% of 594 reviews2024
Dev: Toorai
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.
Why similar: Mining 55% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Exploration 9.7%, Action-Adventure 2.4%
- #50 Keep on Mining!
67% matchVery Positive94% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: EagleEye Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Keep on Mining! is a short incremental mining game. Mine rocks, gather materials, find artifacts, craft pickaxes and spend your materials on permanent upgrades inside the big skill tree!
Why similar: Mining 68.5% ★, Resource Management 21.8%, Strategy 5.1%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #51 Super Mining Mechs
69% matchVery Positive88% of 826 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Why similar: Mining 73% ★, Crafting 23.8%, Adventure 3.2%
- #52 A Game About Digging A Hole™
67% matchVery Positive90% of 19,384 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 57.9% ★, Crafting 19.4%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Adventure 2.8%
- #53 Orbitmine
68% matchVery Positive84% of 353 reviews2026
Dev: vibemaker1
Windows
Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Sci-fi 28.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 2.7%
- #54 Astronomics
68% matchVery Positive90% of 656 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.
Why similar: Mining 43.7% ★, Automation 19.5%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Exploration 13.7%, Strategy 5.8%
- #55 Final Upgrade
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 19.1%, Building 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #56 Ad Fundum
67% matchVery Positive93% of 498 reviews2024
Dev: Oldbut Gold
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Why similar: Mining 62.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Exploration 9.4%, Adventure 1.9%
- #57 Mercury Fallen
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 312 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Mining 34.7% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #58 FOUNDRY
67% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 13%, Building 8.6%
- #59 Forever Skies
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Resource Management 18.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 10%, Exploration 9.8%