Games Like Hydroneer

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 18.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10%, Co-op 9.8%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person perspective, destructible voxel terrain, mining loop, and modular factory construction make it one of the closest matches to Hydroneer's mechanical sandbox appeal.

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 22.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 9%, Co-op 8.7%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Mine alien-world resources and turn them into massive, highly customizable automated production networks alone or with friends.

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 24.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This underground first-person factory builder combines excavation, power systems, conveyors, and atmospheric exploration in a way that strongly echoes Hydroneer's progression.

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 12.8%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build whimsical physics-based machines, vehicles, and automated contraptions in a colorful open-world multiplayer sandbox.

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 25.1% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on operating heavy mining machinery in open environments, extracting material, terraforming terrain, and building up an industrial operation.

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 24.7%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.4%, Mining 11.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel mining sandbox built around digging deep, constructing large bases, and routing resources through increasingly elaborate conveyor-driven factories.

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%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 13.9%, Building 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Explore a procedurally generated underground world with friends, mine ore, build a home base, craft equipment, and automate selected resource tasks.

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 14.8%, Open World 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person voxel mining, base construction, vehicles, and engineering systems offer a more technical sci-fi version of Hydroneer's creative machinery play.

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 22% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A demanding first-person building game where mining and carefully engineered automation support detailed off-world bases.

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 37.7% ★, Co-op 19.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op mining game is directly about piloting upgradeable digging machines, gathering ores, and pushing farther underground for better resources.

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 29.1%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it delivers the same core satisfaction of extracting resources and continuously expanding an efficient automated industrial system.

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 14.3%, Automation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 12%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxed co-op exploration sandbox where players gather resources, reshape terrain, build bases, and automate operations across colorful planets.

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 23.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Mining 11.8% ★, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Mine and process entire islands with heavy equipment, logistics networks, factories, and infrastructure that grows into a complex industrial colony.

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 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mine underground resources and upgrade a mobile drillship base while exploring a hostile steampunk island full of buildable machinery.

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 28.1%, Base Building 21.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 12%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It turns gathering, processing, transport lines, and town growth into an approachable automation sandbox with a gentle creative pace.

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 20.1%, Automation 18.1%, Co-op 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Mine resources, construct an expanding base, and automate systems while transforming a hostile planet into a livable world, optionally in co-op.

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

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This compact first-person crafting game focuses on gathering, building, and steadily automating resource production without heavy survival pressure.

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: Mining 20.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful open-world farming and crafting game where a customizable mech gathers materials, builds a homestead, and gradually adds automation.

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 22.4%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build interconnected space colonies, harvest asteroids and planets, and automate production chains in a cooperative sci-fi construction sandbox.

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%, Sandbox 19.3%, Building 18%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its laid-back open-world progression lets you mine, build a settlement, gather materials, and play cooperatively in a charming sandbox setting.

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%, Mining 16.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This dwarven resource-management game centers on mining, hauling materials, and developing a subterranean production operation with a fantasy flavor.

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% ★, Open World 12.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A more grounded mining-focused simulator for players who specifically enjoy the prospecting, excavation, and gold-processing side of Hydroneer.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Mining 25.1% ★, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Mine for ore and relics, process materials with workshop machines, construct commissions, and develop a growing desert-town operation.

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 25.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Mining 13.8% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Design transport networks, mines, factories, and supply chains to transform raw resources into an efficient automated industrial empire.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Build a first-person settlement above an expanding mine, assigning colonists to extract resources and automate the needs of a growing colony.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Building 21.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy action-crafting adventure with extensive building, farming, dungeon mining, and material-driven upgrades for solo or co-op play.

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 23.3% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World 23.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mixing open-world gathering, building, farming, dungeons, and automation, it offers a playful and flexible survival-crafting alternative.

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 22.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Open World 10.5%

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% ★, Automation 19.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.3%, Building 17%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 13.4%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox focused on digging through layered worlds, collecting ores, crafting better tools, and building anything from practical bases to elaborate creations.

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

Why similar: Open World 35.8%, Sandbox 22.9%, Multiplayer 16%, Crafting 9.4%, First-Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous exploration sandbox supports planetary mining, detailed base construction, refining chains, vehicles, and cooperative play.

Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.5%

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%

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 31.6% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 7.1%

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 27.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.2%

Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Automation 20.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 10.2%

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 23.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.4%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 10.9%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%

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

Why similar: Mining 42.4% ★, Automation 24.6%, Split Screen 6.6% ★, Co-op 6.2%, Resource Management 6%

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 23.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.1%

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 16.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 8.1%, Building 7.7%

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 28.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.9%

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 34.7%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.8%

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Mining 21.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 29.1%, Sandbox 21.6%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 8%

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 38.2% ★, Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 14.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 7.7%

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 20.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 4.3%

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 16.1%, Automation 12.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Co-op 9.8%

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 26.8% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.3%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.1%

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.5%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 22.6%, Building 11.6%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 27.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.7%

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 31.1% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%

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%, Base Building 17.7%, Co-op 11.6%, Open World 9%, Building 8.2%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Automation 42.9%, Sandbox 24.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 5.3%