Games Like Mad Miner

A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.

Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Underground 15.1% ★, Loot 14.4%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Platformer 8.8%

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Loot 11.4%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Building 6.9%

Explore, build, and survive in the depths of a forgotten world. Manage oxygen, power, and resources as you uncover the secrets buried beneath the surface.

Why similar: Mining 37.5% ★, Roguelite 13.7%, Underground 12.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Building 6.7%

Embark on an epic journey into the depths of a mysterious and treacherous underground world. This immersive adventure combines exploring vast and mysterious caves teaming with ferocious monsters, mining for precious minerals, and continuously upgrading your abilities to survive.

Why similar: Mining 22% ★, Side Scroller 15.1%, Platformer 13.7%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Underground 10% ★

Dignaut is a chill sci-fi space adventure where you drill into alien terrain to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore a mysterious planet with multiple biomes, upgrade your gear, and uncover the secrets of an ancient, buried alien civilization.

Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Underground 19% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Loot 14.1%, Exploration 6.9%

The soldier in the mine is an interesting 2D platformer. In this game, to move from one cave to another. But you will interfere with obstacles.

Why similar: Mining 34.9% ★, Underground 16.7% ★, Side Scroller 15.9%, Survival 11.6%, Platformer 10.8%

A calm, relaxing mining game about digging deeper and deeper below the surface. Gather ores, carve your own tunnels, and unwind as you descend into the quiet depths. Keep going until you're truly… Far Below.

Why similar: Mining 26.1% ★, Underground 18.8% ★, 2D Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 10.4%

Doug The Digger is a casual, single-player mining and crafting game where you aim to escape a crash landing by crafting a rocket. The gameplay is simple but addictive—play at your own risk!

Why similar: Mining 39.8% ★, Survival 15.3%, Side Scroller 13.8%, RPG 7.1%, Exploration 6.4%

You’re trapped in a mine, forced to repay the debt left behind by your late grandfather. Dig, explore, build, and earn your way out — one rock at a time.

Why similar: Mining 33.2% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Underground 14.3% ★, Loot 12.9%, Exploration 7.1%

Terminal Bore is a 2D mining game inspired by classics like Motherload. Dig deep, craft upgrades, and overcome obstacles as you become an unstoppable mining machine.

Why similar: Mining 35.3% ★, Underground 18.5% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 9.7%, Platformer 6.8%

Beldamos Miner is a mining game, where you hunt for ore, buy upgrades, and explore. It starts out in a simple world that has an air of familiarity but as you progress in the game, you'll find a more complex and interesting world unfolds. Mine ore, learn spells, buy upgrades, and finish quests!

Why similar: Mining 48.8% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 8.1%, 2D 4%

Explore with up to 4 players in a randomly generated world ! Mine, fight, craft and build in this 2D survival game ! You are free to do whatever you want, as long as you do not awaken the demon of the mountains...

Why similar: Mining 23.3% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Underground 12.8% ★, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 10.3%

Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.

Why similar: Mining 30.6% ★, Survival 14%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Roguelite 12%, Sandbox 11.5%

Dreamlight is a 2D exploration sandbox with a survival aspects and a random world generation

Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Platformer 14%, Side Scroller 12.6%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Building 11.2%

Mining Shift is an incremental game about mining minerals and upgrading your skills to master the elemental mines.

Why similar: Mining 56.3% ★, Loot 15.7%, Roguelite 13.5%, Underground 9.5% ★, 2D 5.1%

Joe has been trapped deep in the mine after an earthquake. Help him navigate the dark tunnels of the mine and face its dangers until he finds the exit.

Why similar: Mining 31.5% ★, Side Scroller 19.2%, Platformer 15.8%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Adventure 9.4%

TerranLands is a survival adventure game. Explore and gather resources in many different caves, build and craft new items in your home, and discover old Terran stories.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.5%, Platformer 14%, Mining 12.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.3%

In Mole a Hole, you become a determined mole on a mission to dig deeper than ever before. Excavate tunnels, collect valuable items, upgrade your equipment, and explore a playful underground full of surprises, challenges, and rewarding discoveries - perfect for immersive VR fun.

Why similar: Mining 41.4% ★, Sandbox 18%, Loot 11.1%, Underground 10.5% ★, Exploration 6.5%

Dig for rare minerals, upgrade your harvester and unlock research to escape from planet Volantis.

Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 9.6%, Building 9.2%

ASCII incremental game about digging through a mine and fighting massive hordes of enemies. Upgrade your gear, level up random skills, and dig all the way to the very end.

Why similar: Mining 42.6% ★, Sandbox 20.5%, Underground 15.6% ★, Exploration 8.6%, Adventure 5.7%

Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!

Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.6%, Loot 10.8%, Building 9.9%

Oreflux is a fast mining roguelite where you have to battle with time to fullfill your daily mission. Upgrade your gear, create synergies with dozens of unique items and become a millionaire!

Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Underground 14.3% ★, Roguelite 13.9%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 10.5%

Wandering is a pixel-style sandbox action-adventure where you play as a drifting desert island adventurer trying to survive on a pristine desert island. You can explore unknown islands on a raft and get unique resources and treasures. Conquer powerful enemies and acquire rare equipment.

Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 14.9%, Building 9.5%, RPG 8.1%

Gold! In this classic arcade-style action game from 1984, grab bags of gold from under the nose of deadly bandits and transport them safely to your wheelbarrow on the surface. Useful items and fast minecarts can help you, but beware - many a player has fallen to greed in these treacherous mines.

Why similar: Mining 32.3% ★, 2D Platformer 21.8%, Platformer 17.8%, Loot 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Explore the randomized cave systems, find a wide selection of items, collect rare ores and master the quick platformer gameplay of "Caverns"! The endless mines offer deadly dangers arround every corner!

Why similar: Mining 28.7% ★, Platformer 13%, Roguelite 13%, 2D Platformer 13%, Underground 13% ★

Control a mining robot and dig for mineral resources on various planets. Transport the valuable ores with your spaceship. Buy or craft upgrades to improve your tools. Defend yourself against the dangers of each planet to mine even the most valuable treasures!

Why similar: Mining 37.4% ★, Underground 16.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Loot 10.9%, RPG 6.4%

Be a spiderbot, crawl around on walls and ceilings, dig and drill, make critters go splat, find the exit.

Why similar: Mining 32.1% ★, Side Scroller 25.8%, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Platformer 6.3%

Fly and fight your way through the magically altered tree you once called home! Free your friends from the prison gems that bind them! Find all your friends to open up an escape portal and get to safety!

Why similar: Side Scroller 21.5%, Nonlinear 19.2%, 2D Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 15.4%, Exploration 10.2%

A unique side scroller with roguelike elements, collect and craft in order to stop giant, terraforming machines that consume the world behind you.

Why similar: Mining 22.4% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Side Scroller 18.1%, Roguelite 16.2%, Building 9%

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 35% ★, Underground 19.3% ★, Loot 15.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Exploration 6.4%

Control your robot to dig down deep mines in order to find the Ultimate Diamond while avoiding being crushed by falling rocks

Why similar: Mining 42.6% ★, Platformer 11.4%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Underground 10.9% ★, Loot 10.5%

You and your friends bought a “nice” piece of land... Turns out you accidentally signed up for catastrophic lifelong debt. Now the collectors want their money. Dig down for treasure, ore, and anything shiny enough to pawn off. Unlock ancient relics and buy new tools to help you on your dig!

Why similar: Side Scroller 21.7%, Sandbox 19.9%, 2D Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 13.7%, Exploration 11%

A short horror game where you're buried alive in a collapsed underground mine, and your only hope for survival is an old mining machine.

Why similar: Mining 39.8% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Dystopian 16.4%, Dark 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?

Why similar: Mining 46.6% ★, Underground 21.2% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Exploration 7.8%, Adventure 3.5%

A RPG wacky-themed survival game! Play in a 2D platformer world and build, craft, and destroy your way to safety! This is a 2D building game with RPG elements for the future and we would love your feedback!

Why similar: Sandbox 16%, Platformer 13.5%, RPG 13.2%, Side Scroller 12.4%, 2D Platformer 12%

Mine through hand sculpted caves, collect ore, earn money and experience, unlock tools, equipment, buffs and perks, and tear through the caves at insane speed.

Why similar: Mining 48.5% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Underground 16.4% ★, Exploration 6.4%, Loot 6.4%

Dig to collect resources and process them to craft spells in this cozy resource-gathering and building game with incremental progression. Craft the most powerful healing spell to cure humanity of a mysterious disease.

Why similar: Mining 43.4% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Underground 12.1% ★, Building 11.4%, Exploration 8.7%

A delicious arcade down-scroller roguelike where you dig into a creepy hole with an oversized drill!

Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Underground 23.6% ★, Side Scroller 12.4%, Roguelite 10%, 2D Platformer 9.7%

Descend into the depths of a perilous underground world with your mining tank! Mine rare ores, evade deadly traps, and upgrade your tank to withstand the dangers below in this action-packed mining adventure.

Why similar: Mining 47.1% ★, Underground 23.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 4.2%

Your ship crashed on the unknown planet BURA 0-5.1. This planet is not yet unknown to your race and who knows what awaits you here!

Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Side Scroller 13.5%, Building 11.9%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Roguelite 10.7%

You're stranded. Navigate a perilous uncharted world full of freezing waters, and razor sharp rocks. You have ten seconds to breathe. Don't choke.

Why similar: Underground 21.6% ★, Side Scroller 19.1%, Survival 16.2%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Platformer 14%

Explore a new world, traverse randomly generated seamlessly wrapping landscapes, fight or trap monsters, dig for materials, craft equipment, find treasure and trinkets to increase your strength, build a house to protect yourself at night, dig deep to find greater challenges, unique weapons and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 15.7%, Side Scroller 14.5%, 2D Platformer 13%, Building 8.9%

Team up with friends in this 2D fantasy sandbox adventure! Explore mysterious worlds, craft powerful gear, battle monsters, and delve deep underground to uncover secrets and challenge epic bosses.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, Platformer 17.7%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Building 10.1%, Adventure 9.4%

Build your dream museum and go digging for lost treasures! Manage staff, theme your exhibits, buy and sell artifacts, and fight creatures that try to disrupt your research! Watch out for thieves, and loud teenagers, and of course, use your museum to turn around the fortunes of your local town!

Why similar: Mining 31.3% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 8.3%

A 2D sandbox with a heavy emphasis on action and combat. Features music-synchronized boss fights, village invasions, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Building 10.3%, Side Scroller 9.9%

A casual decompression role-playing game developed by myself, in 2D horizontal version, mainly focused on defense and adventure, with storyline tasks, capable of collection and construction. Please subscribe to the download image resource package at Steam Creative Workshop before playing the game

Why similar: Mining 25.4% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, Loot 14.5%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Building 8.1%

Become an independent miner in worlds full of monsters and dangers that keep living even when you're not around. Dig deeper, gather resources, upgrade your machine, and build a crew. Shape living worlds that react to your every move. Each expedition brings different conditions, threats, and outcomes

Why similar: Mining 50% ★, Underground 22.7% ★, Roguelite 8.3%, Exploration 7.6%, Adventure 5.1%

Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Platformer 13%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Roguelite 11%, Survival 9.7%

Shorten your journey to the castle by digging a tunnel through the mountain. Use magic and craft: swing your pickaxe, cast spells, blow up obstacles, and light your path with glowing slimes. Trade resources with the Goose, unlock new tools, and uncover the mountain's secrets.

Why similar: Mining 30.8% ★, Sandbox 21.2%, Loot 13.3%, Underground 12.6% ★, Exploration 8.6%

Oddment is a roguelite focused on mining and exploration, set on a moon orbiting a distant earth-like planet nestled within a dangerous corner of space.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Platformer 17.9%, Roguelite 17.3%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Adventure 9.8%

Game where you can build, break or craft things.

Why similar: Mining 40.8% ★, Sandbox 27.8%, Building 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, 2D 6.1%

A NES hard game, made to run and play on original hardware. Ported to the PC. 7 hard and unique levels. An original gripping ChipTune sound track! 8 bit glory in this side scrolling shooter platformer!

Why similar: Dystopian 17.4%, Side Scroller 16.2%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Platformer 14.1%, Underground 9.8% ★

You are a miner, but you only have a shovel. You need to find various interesting tools to open your way to the treasure chests in a unexplored mine. You can also use mechanics or airborne stunt movements to pass through. There is a cute pixel mode bring you back to 1990's game world.

Why similar: Mining 45.3% ★, Loot 19.9%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Eva Platformer is a platformer game where you have to collect coins and keys. In the game you play as the main character Eva. Collect all the coins and fight with the enemies.

Why similar: Side Scroller 29.6%, 2D Platformer 19.9%, Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 6.1%

A 2d puzzle-platformer with interesting mechanics like picking up and placing blocks.

Why similar: Mining 29% ★, 2D Platformer 20.6%, Underground 19.6% ★, Platformer 15.4%, Adventure 5.6%

Dig. Discover. Collect. Create. From robots to bananas, discover random interdimensional artifacts and craft exhibits limited only by your imagination.

Why similar: Mining 32.2% ★, Underground 17.8% ★, Loot 16.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 11.1%

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 25.9% ★, Sandbox 21.6%, Loot 13.6%, Underground 9.4% ★, Exploration 9.3%

Explore an open, procedurally-generated world, loot caves, chests and fight monsters to craft better gear. Can you take on the toughest bosses to unlock new abilties and become increasingly overpowered?

Why similar: Mining 35.1% ★, Survival 20.1%, Building 13%, Loot 11.9%, Sandbox 9.6%

Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!

Why similar: Nonlinear 20.3%, Side Scroller 18.1%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 8.3%

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 35.6% ★, Underground 17.8% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Loot 13.8%, Exploration 6.7%