Games Like Hydroneer

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 22.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Open World 8.9%, Co-op 8.7%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest mix of first-person exploration, resource extraction, base expansion, and large-scale automation that makes Hydroneer so addictive.

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 24.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Hydroneer, it blends mining and building with hands-on factory automation, but in a subterranean sci-fi setting.

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 18.9%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 10%, Co-op 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person voxel world, mining focus, and conveyor-heavy factory building make it feel like a more industrial cousin to Hydroneer.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Open World 14.1%, Automation 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 12%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Hydroneer’s chill co-op sandbox feel through terrain deformation, resource gathering, base building, and playful exploration.

Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Why similar: Mining 50.2% ★, Open World 12.7%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Hydroneer is the process of digging, washing, and profiting from raw ore, this leans hard into that loop.

Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.

Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.8%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same resource-extraction itch with hands-on mining operations, vehicles, and a sandbox focus on growing your output.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 15%, Co-op 14%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its digging-driven progression, base building, crafting, and co-op sandbox structure make it a great fit if you love the mining side of Hydroneer.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 17.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick for players who enjoy Hydroneer’s playful building, physics-driven contraptions, and open-ended co-op creativity.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the strongest matches for its combination of digging, machine networks, base building, and 3D sandbox progression.

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 20.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Co-op 13.7%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its movable base, resource harvesting, crafting, and mechanical progression capture a similar blend of sandbox building and industrial growth.

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 23.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world base building and automation with a relaxed, incremental expansion loop that feels very Hydroneer-friendly.

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 19.9%, Automation 18.4%, Co-op 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It has the same satisfying pace of gathering resources, placing machinery, and slowly transforming a barren world into a thriving base.

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 22.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you want more automation and base growth wrapped around constant resource extraction, this space sandbox fits nicely.

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 21.9% ★, Automation 18%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It pushes much deeper into systems and machinery, but the appeal of building a self-sustaining industrial setup is very similar.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 15%, Co-op 14.9%, Open World 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel mining, construction, vehicles, and multiplayer sandbox freedom make it a strong match for Hydroneer’s build-your-own-operation feel.

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 37.8% ★, Co-op 19.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses directly on digging deeper, upgrading your operation, and turning mining into a satisfying progression loop.

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 32.9%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 14.7%, Mining 11.9% ★, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes extracting raw materials and converting them into a sprawling industrial complex, echoing Hydroneer’s growth-from-scraps appeal.

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

Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Even though it is top-down, its resource processing and automation obsession will click if Hydroneer’s machine-building was your favorite part.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Co-op 22.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 18%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the cozy side of Hydroneer with mining, gathering, building up a settlement, and a laid-back multiplayer sandbox vibe.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the loop of mining resources, setting up infrastructure, and expanding a practical base in an open environment.

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!

Why similar: Mining 25.3% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 8.1%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of mining, automation, co-op, and building makes it a good fit for players who want a more streamlined factory-sandbox take.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed automation and town-building focus capture the satisfying logistics side of scaling up a resource economy.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Automation 16%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 12.4%, Co-op 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This combines mining, base building, crafting, and gradual labor automation through settlers in a way that still matches Hydroneer’s progression spirit.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 35.6%, Sandbox 22.9%, Multiplayer 16%, Crafting 9.5%, First-Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mining, base building, crafting, and multiplayer exploration make it a broader but still very compatible alternative.

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 26.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 15%, Co-op 14.7%, Open World 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its calm open-world routine of gathering resources, building a homestead, and using machines to improve efficiency should appeal to Hydroneer fans.

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It turns automation into a more playful, exploration-driven sandbox while keeping the same joy of building efficient production chains.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers terrain mining, crafting, construction, and multiplayer world-building with a slower, simulation-heavy sandbox style.

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 23.4% ★, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 25.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more compact automation-and-mining game that still delivers the same upgrade-and-expand satisfaction.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Base Building 21%, Open World 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Co-op 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more survival-focused, it still nails the loop of mining materials, building impressive bases, and co-op sandbox progression.

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 29.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.6%, Open World 10.3%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Mining 30% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Co-op 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world terrain manipulation, mining, construction, and multiplayer sandbox freedom that align well with Hydroneer’s creative side.

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 30.7% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.5%

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: Resource Management 18.4%, Mining 16.4% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.4%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 11%, Building 8.1%

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 31.5% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 7%

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 24.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.9%

Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Why similar: Mining 28.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 7.9%

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 50.1% ★, Sandbox 20.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 4.3%

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 25.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Mining 13.8% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.6%

Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Automation 21.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 10.1%

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 44.7% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%

Grab a shovel and let's get digging! Join the adventure, hire miners and dig for a treasure

Why similar: Mining 42.3% ★, Automation 24.9%, Split Screen 6.5% ★, Co-op 6.2%, Resource Management 6.1%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.9%

Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

Why similar: Mining 37.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9%

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 29.5%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 8%

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 26.7% ★, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.2%

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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 7.8%

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 31% ★, Automation 21.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.6%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 11.4%

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 27.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.6%

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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Co-op 11.6%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.2%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Mining 20.6% ★, Base Building 16%, Automation 12.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Co-op 9.8%

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 22.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%

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 25.7%, Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%