- #1 Hydroneer
97% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 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 17.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 6.7%
- #2 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 26.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 15.9%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.2%
- #3 Star Ores Inc.
96% matchVery Positive83% of 293 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 32.4% ★, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Exploration 6.8%
- #4 MineMogul
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 28.5% ★, Automation 21.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #5 AETHUS
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #6 Outpath
93% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 23.3%, Resource Management 18.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 8.5%
- #7 Geo
94% matchVery Positive85% of 182 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 46.4% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Indie 6.2%
- #8 The Planet Crafter
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.3%, Automation 20.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 9.3%
- #9 Astro Colony
92% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 25.3%, Base Building 24.3%, Resource Management 18.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.7%
- #10 Prospector
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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 21.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 18.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 8.6%
- #11 Astrometica
89% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 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 24.6%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #12 Galactic Mining Corp
90% matchVery Positive84% of 931 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 41.3% ★, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #13 Nova Lands
89% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 28.5%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 17.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 7.1%
- #14 Orebound
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 18.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.8%
- #15 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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 32.3%, Crafting 26.5%, Building 14.1%, Exploration 13.3%, First-Person 9.2%
- #16 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% ★, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 10.8%
- #17 The Crust
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 27.9%, Base Building 24.3%, Resource Management 20.7%, Building 8.6%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #18 Lightyear Frontier
85% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.9%, Resource Management 25.4%, Crafting 19.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%
- #19 Drill Core
83% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.6%, Exploration 15.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%
- #20 Moose Miners
84% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 36.3% ★, Automation 19.2%, Resource Management 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 8%
- #21 Return from Core
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,761 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.3 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 26.8%, Mining 24.1% ★, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 13%, Building 6.2%
- #22 Out of Ore
82% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%
- #23 Hammerting
84% matchMixed57% of 2,576 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 18%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #24 Mining Mechs
81% matchVery Positive90% of 2,395 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 3.2%
- #25 The Last Caretaker
79% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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 28.8%, Base Building 25.1%, Crafting 17.6%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #26 Skyformer
80% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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 24.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Building 8.4%
- #27 Automation Empire
81% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 26%, Base Building 19.5%, Mining 16.6% ★, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 7.6%
- #28 FOUNDRY
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 8.5%
- #29 Facteroids
79% 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 27.4% ★, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 17.1%, Building 7.9%
- #30 A Game About Digging A Hole™
75% matchVery Positive90% of 19,048 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 58% ★, Crafting 19.4%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Adventure 2.8%
- #31 Digger: Galactic Treasures
76% matchVery Positive88% of 631 reviews2025
Dev: RainStyle games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 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 67.5% ★, Crafting 14.5%, First-Person 7.1%, Exploration 6%, Adventure 4.2%
- #32 Stationeers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 18.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 10.6%
- #33 Captain of Industry
76% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 29.6%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 22.3%, Mining 12.7% ★, Building 5.6%
- #34 Rock Crusher
75% matchVery Positive88% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 76.7% ★, Sci-fi 11%, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 2.1%, Adventure 1.9%
- #35 Satisfactory
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 27.1%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 15%, Crafting 13%, Building 7.7%
- #36 Builderment
77% matchMixed66% of 119 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 28.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 19.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 8.2%
- #37 Drill and Delve
74% matchVery Positive93% of 59 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 44.9% ★, Exploration 16.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #38 Keep on Mining!
71% matchVery Positive94% of 7,558 reviews2025
Dev: EagleEye Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.6 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 68.4% ★, Resource Management 22%, Strategy 5%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #39 Astronomics
73% matchVery Positive90% of 645 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Exploration 33.7%, Sci-fi 26.6%, Mining 23.2% ★, Automation 11.8%, Strategy 3%
- #40 Mr.Mine
73% matchVery Positive92% of 18,254 reviews2020
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 99.4 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 51.4% ★, Resource Management 18.3%, Crafting 15%, Building 6.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #41 Planet Driller
77% matchMixed63% of 91 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%, Indie 24.3%, Adventure 23.9%
- #42 DigDigDrill
71% matchVery Positive95% of 587 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 55.1% ★, Resource Management 16.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 2.4%
- #43 Microtopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Crafting 13%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #44 Mercury Fallen
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.9% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #45 Super Mining Mechs
70% matchVery Positive88% of 784 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.9 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 73.2% ★, Crafting 23.6%, Adventure 3.2%
- #46 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 41.6%, Adventure 28.1%, Action-Adventure 20.1%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #47 Ad Fundum
70% matchVery Positive93% of 482 reviews2024
Dev: Oldbut Gold
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 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 63% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 1.9%
- #48 Incremental Factory
71% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Mining 22.2% ★, Resource Management 18%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 11.6%
- #49 Forever Skies
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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%, Resource Management 18.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 9.9%, Exploration 9.8%
- #50 Center Station Simulator
69% matchVery Positive88% of 555 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Exploration 11.7%
- #51 To The Core
68% matchVery Positive93% of 5,073 reviews2023
Dev: SomethingExtra
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 87.3% ★, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #52 BORE BLASTERS
69% matchVery Positive81% of 735 reviews2024
Dev: 8BitSkull
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 81.1% ★, Exploration 14.8%, Action-Adventure 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #53 Dig Deep
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyLabsPub: QubicGames
Windows
Grab a shovel and let's get digging! Join the adventure, hire miners and dig for a treasure
Why similar: Mining 53.1% ★, Automation 26.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 2.5%
- #54 StarRupture
66% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 27.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Exploration 8.8%
- #55 Underminer
67% matchVery Positive93% of 957 reviews2024
Dev: Team GongMyeongPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Welcome to Underminer, an underground adventure game set in a subterranean world. Mine minerals, earn money, upgrade your drill machine and descend deeper into the earth. The truth about 'legendary minerals' and an exciting underground world are waiting for you!
Why similar: Mining 72.8% ★, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Indie 6.7%, Adventure 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #56 Surviving Ceres
66% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Base Building 30%, Crafting 24.4%, Building 15.9%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Exploration 9%
- #57 Space Trash Scavenger
66% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 10.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #58 Idle Cave Miner
67% matchVery Positive80% of 1,058 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 125.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
Why similar: Mining 57.2% ★, Resource Management 22.2%, Crafting 19.7%, Indie 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #59 Widget Inc.
65% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 40%, Resource Management 28.4%, Base Building 26.6%, Strategy 3.3%, Indie 1.5%