Games Like Mad Miner

Rockfall is a 2D mining adventure where you descend into dangerous depths to gather resources, upgrade your gear, and survive hidden dungeons filled with traps, treasure, and danger. Dig deep, explore wisely… and don’t stay underground too long.

Why similar: Mining 39.9% ★, Underground 14% ★, Side Scroller 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Exploration 6.8%

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 30.9% ★, Underground 15.2% ★, Loot 14%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Platformer 9.4%

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 26.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Loot 11%, Side Scroller 9.6%, Building 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 20.9% ★, Side Scroller 15.6%, Platformer 14.3%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Underground 9.8% ★

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 36.7% ★, Roguelite 13.3%, Underground 12.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Building 6.8%

Mine ore on the Moon, send it back to Earth to earn money, and buy Skill Cores to upgrade your abilities. Use a variety of helpful equipment on your expedition — and yes, there’s a dog! Uncover the secrets hidden beneath the lunar surface.

Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Side Scroller 7.9%, Building 6.6%

Dig down, sell what you haul up, go deeper. A pixel-art mining incremental about numbers that climb: 19+ ores, 40+ permanent talents, sealed caves, portals to other dimensions. Prestige and keep what you built. The tenth run clears in minutes what the first took an hour.

Why similar: Mining 32.9% ★, Underground 16% ★, Loot 10.8%, Side Scroller 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%

Mining roguelite. The detector pulses. Dig deeper. Find it and it's yours. Fuel is your only limit. 2041 you're a contract driller for STRATUM Corporation. How deep you go, when you return every decision is life or death.

Why similar: Mining 35.8% ★, Dystopian 15.6%, Underground 15.6% ★, Roguelite 14.2%, Survival 7.9%

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 25.1% ★, Underground 18.6% ★, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Platformer 15%, Exploration 10.5%

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 33.5% ★, Side Scroller 16.6%, Underground 16.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Platformer 11.4%

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 38.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Side Scroller 14.5%, RPG 7.3%, Exploration 6.5%

Jump, dash, and mine your way through obstacles and enemies in this platforming tribute to the classics! Restore the Sacred Gems of Aventurine, or else it will become a land of nothingness.

Why similar: Mining 20.3% ★, Platformer 17.7%, Side Scroller 16.2%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, RPG 7.2%

A mysterious earthquake strikes, and the townspeople vanish without a trace. Become 'Pico' and venture deep into a dark underworld. Discover strange clues with every strike of your pickaxe. As you descend, a buried truth surfaces. What awaits at the bottom of the mine?

Why similar: Mining 24.3% ★, Underground 19.6% ★, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 15.7%, Exploration 10.9%

Gun Miner is a rogue-lite where you explore the ever-changing caves of a mysterious planet. Dig up treasure with your void-blaster rifle. Spend any loot you find on upgrades for your suit, for your gun, or for your ship. Yes you will die a lot, but each turn makes you a tiny bit more powerful.

Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Platformer 14.6%, Side Scroller 13.2%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Roguelite 11.1%

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 32.5% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Underground 14.4% ★, Loot 12.6%, Exploration 7.3%

A 2D pixel art survival sandbox where you mine, build, craft and explore procedurally generated worlds. Fight 5 epic bosses, farm, enchant your gear and survive. From casual to hardcore permadeath!

Why similar: Mining 19% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Underground 14.8% ★, Building 9.3%, Survival 7.9%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Platformer 14.4%, Side Scroller 12.8%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Building 11%

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 22.7% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Underground 12.7% ★, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Platformer 10.8%

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 47.6% ★, Underground 24.2% ★, Platformer 12%, Exploration 8.3%, 2D 4%

Drown World combines grid-based mining with a pixel-perfect elemental simulation. Dig for resources, upgrade equipment at your airship, and carve your way through a volatile underground world in search of long-lost dwarven relics as waves of rain flood the tunnels you leave behind.

Why similar: Mining 44.3% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Underground 14% ★, Survival 7%, Exploration 5.6%

Mine Farm is a progressive mining RPG centered on the pure joy of looting. Mine various minerals, challenge colossal entities, and find your way out of the unknown. Be warned: the journey home won't be easy.

Why similar: Mining 49.3% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, RPG 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, 2D 4.6%

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 29.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Roguelite 11.6%

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 29.9% ★, Side Scroller 19.8%, Platformer 16.4%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Adventure 9.8%

DigWorld is a cozy 2D digging extraction sandbox with roguelite elements, where each run is a race against the clock to get the best rewards. Collect as many items as you can before time runs out. Sell. Upgrade. Repeat.

Why similar: Mining 41.3% ★, Loot 16%, Underground 15.2% ★, Roguelite 10.5%, Exploration 6.7%

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 19.2%, Platformer 14.6%, Mining 12.4% ★, Survival 11%, Building 10.3%

A cozy 2D incremental game about Polly the miner sheep: dig underground, gather resources, explore biomes, upgrade your abilities, and venture deeper and deeper.

Why similar: Mining 35.3% ★, Side Scroller 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 9.3%, 2D Platformer 9%

Unearthed is top down mining adventure set in a procedurally generated blocky underground world. Explore endless cave systems filled with dangerous creatures and unexpected companions. Mine resources, survive the depths, and rebuild the world as you see it fit.

Why similar: Mining 42.5% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 12.3%, Survival 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

Delved Too Deep is a game about an endless stream of machines exploring the depths in search to fulfil the Factory Imperative. Each new machine iteration is better than the last, their accumulated knowledge leading to revelations that may change the fate of those who wander the deep...

Why similar: Mining 47.1% ★, Side Scroller 12.8%, Underground 10.2% ★, Exploration 7.7%, Roguelite 7.2%

Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.

Why similar: Mining 43.3% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Underground 9.4% ★, Building 8.2%, 2D Platformer 7.6%

Mine deep into procedurally generated caves, gather rare ores, upgrade your pickaxe, and explore an ever-changing underground world. Build your fortune with a shopkeeper, swing across caverns with your grappling hook, and uncover ancient treasures in this relaxing 2D pixel mining adventure.

Why similar: Underground 17.6% ★, Side Scroller 17.1%, Mining 15.5% ★, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Platformer 11.7%

Spiritura is an atmospheric open-world survival crafting game with light RPG elements, exploration, and base building. Forge your own path through a mysterious, procedurally generated land, utilizing diverse combat skills to survive the threats of the wild as you uncover the secrets of the world.

Why similar: Mining 30% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Loot 13.8%, Building 8%

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

Why similar: Mining 56.3% ★, Loot 15.6%, Roguelite 13.2%, Underground 9.8% ★, 2D 5.1%

Prospect is a mining roguelike where you carve through the depths of the mines on a perilous journey towards the world above. Vanquish your foes, find mythical artifacts, and forge your own path with your trusty pickaxe. Will you be the first dwarf to ever reach the surface?

Why similar: Mining 39.6% ★, Underground 18.8% ★, Platformer 11.9%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Exploration 5.2%

Buy geodes, crack their weak points, find rare crystals and artifacts, and build an automated processing line in this 2D incremental game.

Why similar: Mining 41.6% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Underground 15.7% ★, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 6%

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

Why similar: Mining 32.3% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 10.2%, Building 9.3%

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 40.6% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Loot 10.9%, Underground 10.6% ★, Exploration 6.7%

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 30.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 12%, Loot 10.5%, Building 10.1%

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 22%, Nonlinear 18.9%, 2D Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 15.9%, Exploration 10%

You’re a monk exploring a vast sandbox world with living, simulated villages, where everyone has a life and a story. Mine, craft, and fight corrupted spirits in the wild. Then return to the villages to build a home, make friends, and master the art of prayer to help them fulfill their dreams.

Why similar: Mining 28.7% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.3%

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 29.5% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 15.2%, Building 9.6%, RPG 8.3%

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 22.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Platformer 14.1%, Exploration 10.8%

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 32.9% ★, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Underground 14.4% ★, Roguelite 13.4%, Platformer 11.2%

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 15.6%, Platformer 13.9%, RPG 13.2%, Side Scroller 12.6%, 2D Platformer 12%

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 27.7% ★, Platformer 13.8%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Underground 12.9% ★, Roguelite 12.5%

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

Why similar: Mining 30.6% ★, Side Scroller 26.8%, 2D Platformer 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Platformer 6.6%

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 34.5% ★, Underground 19.4% ★, Loot 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Exploration 6.7%

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 31.2% ★, 2D Platformer 22.5%, Platformer 18.8%, Loot 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

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 24.1% ★, Underground 15.6% ★, Loot 13.7%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Building 8%

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 36.6% ★, Underground 16.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Loot 10.7%, RPG 6.7%

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 21.7% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Side Scroller 19.1%, Roguelite 15.5%, Building 9.1%

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% ★, Side Scroller 19.6%, Survival 16.2%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Platformer 14.5%

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 17.8%, Survival 15.7%, Side Scroller 14.9%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Building 8.9%

Mine the vast underground and collect ores and gemstones—collect! collect! collect like crazy! “MINERALS: Deep Core Mining” is an over-the-top mining game with roguelite elements. Use the resources you gather to upgrade your abilities and take on an endless underground that changes with every run!

Why similar: Mining 34.3% ★, Underground 17.9% ★, Loot 14.8%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Roguelite 9.2%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Survival 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Building 10.3%, Side Scroller 10.2%

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 21.9%, Platformer 18.3%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Building 10%, Adventure 9.7%

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 16.1%, Side Scroller 13.9%, 2D Platformer 12%, Building 11.8%, Roguelite 10.1%

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 41.4% ★, Platformer 12.2%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Underground 10.9% ★, Loot 10.2%

Worlda is a 2D top down pixel-art sandbox adventure where you play as grizzly bear cub Jonas as he sets forth into a charming, infinite world, battling brutal bosses and building beautiful bungalows. Will you make it through the night, or will you bear-ly survive?

Why similar: Mining 31.9% ★, Sandbox 17%, Survival 11.5%, Building 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

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 45.6% ★, Underground 21.4% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 3.7%