Games Like Keep Digging

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 37.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the mechanics of mining and automation, allowing players to build complex systems to extract and process resources.

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: Online Co-Op 16%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Co-op 14.8%, Procedural Generation 14%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that perfectly captures the loop of mining, base-building, and crafting in a vast, mysterious underground world.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 41.7%, Procedural Generation 30.1%, Exploration 14.8%, First-Person 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cooperative mining experience, featuring procedurally generated caves, class-based teamwork, and intense combat against underground threats.

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: Voxel 24.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale mining, automation, and resource management in an open voxel world.

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: Online Co-Op 26.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Co-op 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Sandbox 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a robust survival and crafting loop that rewards exploration and resource gathering, much like the progression systems found in Keep Digging.

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: Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Co-op 15.5%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and mining with a unique mobile drill-ship mechanic that requires players to manage resources while surviving underground.

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: Co-op 20.7%, Sandbox 20.5%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Exploration 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features extensive terrain deformation and mining mechanics in a sandbox environment that encourages cooperative exploration and base expansion.

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: Crafting 26%, Economy 25.9%, Sandbox 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A collaborative survival game where players must work together to mine, craft, and manage resources to protect their world from environmental threats.

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 34% ★, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 13.6%, Co-op 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly complex simulation of mining and atmospheric management, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of survival and crafting.

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: Crafting 24%, Co-op 20.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial side of mining and crafting, challenging players to build massive, efficient factories in a beautiful alien landscape.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Mining 19.3% ★, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Crafting 14%, Co-op 11.6%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that tasks players with mining and gathering resources on a hostile planet before extracting to safety.

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 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Co-op 13.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the mining loop, allowing players to upgrade their equipment and explore deeper into the earth.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Voxel 33.8% ★, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends deep mining and voxel-based base-building with survival elements, requiring players to fortify their structures against waves of enemies.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Co-op 25%, Multiplayer 20.3%, Crafting 19.6%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set on the ocean, it shares the core loop of gathering resources, expanding a base, and crafting increasingly advanced equipment with friends.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Crafting 29.8%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game where mining and resource gathering are essential for building defenses and competing with other players.

Dust off your torch and hammer - it's time to get back to work, you have a new job to do. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it's time to get back to the business.

Why similar: Destruction 22.6%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Inventory Management 9.9%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying destruction and resource-gathering loop that mirrors the industrial feel of mining and processing ores.

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 23.1% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 10.5%, Realistic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-focused game that emphasizes the realistic aspects of operating mining equipment and managing a mining operation.

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: Sandbox 23.1%, Crafting 21.7%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Co-op 14.2%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: Encourages creative engineering and resource gathering, allowing players to build complex machines and vehicles to aid in their survival.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Crafting 29.8%, Exploration 18%, Sandbox 17%, Multiplayer 14.3%, First-Person 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an immersive exploration and resource-gathering experience that emphasizes the tension of venturing into deep, dangerous environments.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Co-op 23.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Online Co-Op 15%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that features a unique perspective on resource gathering and crafting within a dangerous, sandbox-style world.

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 45.1% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Realistic 10.7%, Economy 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic simulation of the gold mining process, perfect for players who enjoy the methodical nature of resource extraction.

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

Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Exploration 15.6%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive universe to explore, with mining and crafting being central pillars of the gameplay loop for upgrading gear and ships.

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: Sandbox 27%, Crafting 24.8%, Management 15.8%, Co-op 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate game for players who love the automation and resource management aspects of mining and production.

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: Sandbox 22.7%, Co-op 22%, Realistic 15.8%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Exploration 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced mining and construction mechanics in a sandbox space environment, allowing for complex ship and base building.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Voxel 31.4% ★, Co-op 16.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A versatile survival game that includes mining, crafting, and building across multiple planets, with a strong focus on cooperative play.

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 22.4% ★, Voxel 21.4% ★, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%

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 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 10%, Economy 8.8%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 22.8%, Co-op 16.3%, Sandbox 14%, Management 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on settlement management, it features a rewarding survival and resource-gathering loop that includes mining and crafting.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.5%, Crafting 32.5%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game where mining and building defenses are critical to surviving the nightly onslaught of hostile creatures.

Dig Island is a 4-player co-op digging game. As you dig deeper, discover new resources, upgrade your equipment, and work with your friends to repair the plane and escape the island.

Why similar: Voxel 20.4% ★, Mining 20.3% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Inventory Management 9%, Realistic 8.6%

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Crafting 38.5%, Multiplayer 24.7%, Exploration 19.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Casual 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A social survival game that requires players to gather resources and mine to survive, while also managing the threat of hidden traitors.

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 24.8% ★, Voxel 22.6% ★, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%

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 26.9% ★, Economy 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Do you have the Big Dig Energy!? The best co-op mining game with online multiplayer for up to 4 players! Team up, dig deep, mine energy ore, and upgrade your tools. Reach the planets core to fuel the rocket and leave Earth!

Why similar: Voxel 23.2% ★, Mining 19.8% ★, Destruction 17.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Exploration 6.5%

Mining Merchant is a relaxing mining and shopkeeping adventure game. Mine by day to uncover rare ores and gems, then craft jewelry to sell in your shop by night. Rebuild your uncle’s business solo or in co-op and uncover the mystery behind the nightly earthquakes.

Why similar: Mining 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8.7%

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 28.8% ★, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Procedural Generation 12%, Crafting 10.5%

Dig for resources, upgrade your gear and defend your gate against relentless zombie hordes as you uncover the mystery hidden beneath the world. Play solo or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Mining 37.2% ★, Voxel 31.5% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Online Co-Op 7.1%, Exploration 4.7%

In iDigging, you’ll balance treasure hunting, home improvement, and the strategy of hiding from curious neighbors and authorities. Upgrade, dig, and create your best life despite all the challenges!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Co-op 18.5%, First-Person 16%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Simulation 12.2%

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 32.1% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Economy 8.1%, Exploration 7.1%

Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.

Why similar: Inventory Management 16.7%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Economy 12.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Management 11%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Inventory Management 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Economy 14.1%, Co-op 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%

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: Voxel 36.3% ★, Mining 31.6% ★, Crafting 7.6%, Simulation 5.4%, First-Person 4.5%

Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.

Why similar: Co-op 16.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 11%, Simulation 8.6%

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 61.3% ★, Economy 21.4%, Management 7.6%, Casual 7.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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: Voxel 29.5% ★, Mining 22.7% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 7.6%

Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.9%, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.3%, Co-op 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

Why similar: Simulation 19.2%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Realistic 15.7%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 12.7%

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 61.5% ★, Economy 19.2%, Casual 9.9%, Management 7.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 26.3% ★, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Co-op 10.6%

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: Online Co-Op 23%, Co-op 19.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Exploration 9.3%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Voxel 28.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 11.1%

Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.

Why similar: Voxel 26.7% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 9.3%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Co-op 15.6%, Sandbox 15.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%

Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.6%, Management 15.6%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Economy 12.1%, Co-op 10.3%

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: Voxel 24.8% ★, Mining 22.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13%, First-Person 7.3%

Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

Why similar: Destruction 25.6%, Voxel 23% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Co-op 8.2%

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

Why similar: Mining 55.3% ★, Co-op 8.3%, Exploration 7.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Casual 5.8%

Ready to create your own world of flavor? Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players, prepare sandwiches with your friends, deliver online orders to the courier and run your sandwich restaurant. Clean, expand, and keep your customers happy!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.6%, Co-op 15.7%, Economy 15.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Management 8.9%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Co-op 18.9%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%