Games Like Mines of Volantis

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: Underground 24.2% ★, Mining 20.5% ★, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 13.6%, Exploration 10.7%

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: Underground 24.1% ★, Mining 22.2% ★, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 13.6%, Exploration 10.8%

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 36.2% ★, Underground 18% ★, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Building 9.5%, Exploration 7.1%

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 42.3% ★, Underground 31.5% ★, Platformer 11%, Exploration 8.6%, 2D 3.8%

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 32.4% ★, Underground 23.2% ★, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11%, Platformer 10.1%

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

Why similar: Underground 28.2% ★, Mining 21% ★, Futuristic 10.5%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 7.6%

Exo Digger is a relaxing mining simulator set on a distant planet. Dig deep, extract rare minerals, upgrade your equipment, and expand your inventory. Explore the depths, but beware some areas of the mines may be dangerous. Who knows what secrets this planet holds beneath its surface?

Why similar: Mars 24.6% ★, Mining 22.6% ★, Underground 13.1% ★, Science 12.1%, Futuristic 7.3%

"Magma Fever" is a 2D pixel-style mining action-adventure game. You will pilot a mech and dig into an underground volcanic world. Complete missions and confront enemies in various environment, overcome disasters like earthquakes and lava surges, bring back ores to upgrade your mech at the base.

Why similar: Mining 26.7% ★, Underground 21.2% ★, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Platformer 8%, Futuristic 7.3%

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 34.7% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Procedural Generation 12%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 5.3%

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 37.4% ★, Underground 24.9% ★, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Exploration 7.6%, Sci-fi 5%

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Mining 22% ★, Underground 19.2% ★, Science 13.4%, Building 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9%

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 38.5% ★, Underground 12.3% ★, Building 10.3%, 2D Platformer 8%, Exploration 6.7%

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 20.8% ★, Underground 17% ★, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Platformer 10.2%

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 43.7% ★, Underground 22.4% ★, Exploration 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%, 2D Platformer 8.3%

Drill into a dead moon, haul glowing ore, sell your load, and upgrade your mole-bot for the next risky descent. A compact mining adventure inspired by Motherload and I Dig It, with cozy progression, dangerous depths, and something alive below.

Why similar: Mining 36.3% ★, Underground 27.3% ★, Space 11.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Platformer 9.3%

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 37.2% ★, Space 10%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Procedural Generation 7.8%

A cargo full of 99 Pixel cats crashed on Venus. Abort your asteroids mining mission. Your priority is now to rescue the cats by digging your way down into the puzzling underground caves of an old hazardous industrial planet.

Why similar: Mining 28.7% ★, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Platformer 10.3%, Space 8.7%, Old School 7.7%

In this classic platformer from 1984, take on the role of Monty Mole and grab as much coal as you can from the South Yorkshire coal pit, for a long, cold winter and a bone chilling Christmas lies ahead. Avoid flying pickets, carnivorous fish, deadly hairsprays, and a host of other surreal hazards.

Why similar: Mining 39.9% ★, 2D Platformer 21.5%, Platformer 10%, Retro 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

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 30.6% ★, Underground 19.5% ★, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

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 37.7% ★, Underground 14.5% ★, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 11.4%, Exploration 6.3%

Canary in a Crater is an asteroid-delving 2D platformer about digging deep, uncovering valuables, and fighting off hungry alien snails. Spend your hard-earned credits on a wide variety of unlockable gadgets and upgrades to get you deeper and deeper!

Why similar: Mining 39.3% ★, Underground 14.1% ★, Platformer 13%, Exploration 6.5%, Space 6.4%

Every pixel simulated, including the machines. Dig into alien planets, build a factory from real blocks, and carve it into any shape you want. Ore sinks and sand rises in the greatest competition in the galaxy. Move it, grind it, melt it, freeze it, sell it, and strip the planet to bedrock.

Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Underground 19.3% ★, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Space 7.7%

Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!

Why similar: Mars 30% ★, Mining 21.7% ★, Science 12.5%, Space 9.5%, Building 9.1%

Mad Miner is a mining game where you try to survive in a new order where world life is trapped underground.

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

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 34.8% ★, Underground 24.8% ★, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Resource Management 6.9%, Exploration 6.9%

Robot Miner Vidis. Return to Earth with a mysterious gemstone on Mars, where asteroids crashed. A classic color-based puzzle where simple rules, different strategies, and order matter.

Why similar: Mars 40.3% ★, Mining 27.2% ★, Space 9.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

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

Why similar: Underground 25.2% ★, Mining 24.8% ★, 2D Platformer 22.2%, Platformer 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%

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 21.2% ★, 2D Platformer 19.8%, Platformer 19%, Linear 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Fly your mining pod into the crust of Luna, Mars, Io and Callisto. Drill deep, haul ore up, and pour the profits into your rig. Fuel always burns, hulls crack, and something old is awake down there. A 2D mining adventure with a story campaign, base building and a living ore market.

Why similar: Mining 34.8% ★, Underground 21.7% ★, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Sci-fi 7%, Resource Management 6.4%

Dig to the center of the Earth before time runs out. Mine gems to sell on the black market, build up your infrastructure, uncover relics of forgotten civilizations, and upgrade to face the dangers of the deep. Don't get caught by bandits or authorities while you drill into your last dig.

Why similar: Mining 36.7% ★, Underground 27.4% ★, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Retro 5%

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 31.8% ★, Underground 24.3% ★, Science 14.2%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Platformer 6.6%

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% ★, Underground 20.4% ★, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Exploration 6.5%, Resource Management 5.3%

Miner Crysis is a 2D sci-fi mining adventure where you pilot a drill-ship to explore a collapsing moon held together by a mysterious crystal machine. Mine resources, battle alien threats, find secret rooms, defeat bosses, and buy powerful upgrades to grow stronger and progress.

Why similar: Mining 37.4% ★, Underground 26% ★, Resource Management 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Exploration 7.5%

Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.

Why similar: Mars 47.6% ★, Science 16.1%, Space 14.3%, Building 10.7%, Exploration 7.7%

Your ultimate goal was to achieve the dream of living on Mars, but the journey didn't go as planned. After a rough ride that left your engine destroyed, you are now stranded on space and must mine asteroids to repair your ship to try finish the voyage.

Why similar: Mining 47.9% ★, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Exploration 5.1%

The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.

Why similar: Mars 39.3% ★, Mining 29.5% ★, Space 10.5%, Futuristic 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Fight through the monster-infested darkness on Mars. Every death alters your DNA, granting power at a steep price. Upgrade weapons, uncover secrets, and choose your fate in this pixel-art horror with dark humor.

Why similar: Mars 33.5% ★, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Futuristic 9%, Old School 6%

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 23.7% ★, 2D Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 16.6%, Underground 16.2% ★, Exploration 10.3%

Command a squad of hard-working dudes, tunnel through different biomes and layers, collect rare ores and gemstones, equip powerful pickaxes, and descend into the depths!

Why similar: Mining 49.8% ★, Underground 20.4% ★, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Exploration 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

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 25.6% ★, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Mining 15.5% ★, Platformer 12%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

Action mining game with retro aesthetics and roguelike elements. Collect minerals from procedurally generated asteroids, improve your ship and survive The Anomaly, an unknown entity threatening The Galaxy. Can a simple miner stop The Anomaly and save everyone?

Why similar: Mining 43.9% ★, Space 12%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Exploration 7.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%

You are a burrito inside a burrito digging through all the delicious ingredients inside. Be careful, some ingredients can kill you! You will avoid enemies, Cause massive explosions, Upgrade your stats, Dig through tons of burritos and more!

Why similar: Mining 36.9% ★, Underground 27.6% ★, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Retro 6.3%, Exploration 5.6%

Mine down into an active volcano, grab what valuables you can and make your escape before it erupts!

Why similar: Mining 49.7% ★, Procedural Generation 14.4%, 2D Platformer 14%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Travel between galaxies, dig planets, collect ores, sell them, upgrade your equipment, and earn your ticket back to Earth.

Why similar: Mining 49.1% ★, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Exploration 11.6%, Space 8.2%, Sci-fi 5.2%

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 30.9% ★, 2D Platformer 26.3%, Platformer 19.1%, Old School 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

Endless Digging is a 2D pixel-art incremental game focused on exploration, resource collection, and upgrades. You will venture deep underground and explore different mines, each with its own unique style. Collect various resources and discover more than 10 types of ores.

Why similar: Underground 41.7% ★, Mining 35.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, 2D 6.3%

Descend into a persistent mine, extract valuable ores and rare discoveries, manage your tools and cargo, then return to smelt, craft, complete contracts, and expand your operation in this combat-free mining game.

Why similar: Mining 46.4% ★, Underground 20.2% ★, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Exploration 9%

Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?

Why similar: Mars 48.7% ★, Mining 14.7% ★, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 6.9%, Procedural Generation 6.3%

Discover an indie anthology of creative games crafted during my undergrad journey. Explore multiple genres and themes in this personal collection, made solo or with small teams of up to five students. Each game tells a unique story and reflects the passion behind its creation.

Why similar: Mars 39.7% ★, Procedural Generation 12.6%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Old School 9.2%, Sci-fi 7%

Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?

Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Underground 27.5% ★, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Platformer 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.2%

Build, launch, and survive. Design your own rover and automated robot workforce to conquer the harsh Martian climate, fulfill Mission Control directives, and uncover the secrets of the red planet in Heng Mar Mission.

Why similar: Mars 35.1% ★, Mining 25.3% ★, Building 18.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Space 7.8%

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: Underground 23.3% ★, Mining 20.5% ★, Building 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Exploration 8.6%

Shadow Touched is a 2D platformer where the player has to use their platforming skills and travel between dimensions to complete levels.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.5%, Platformer 21.3%, Linear 13.7%, Old School 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

An arcade-style PvE platformer, with 130 differing levels. Dig, trap, and fill blobs to drop them to their doom, and to take you onward to victory!

Why similar: Mining 43% ★, Underground 24.5% ★, Platformer 15.6%, 2D Platformer 7.1%, Retro 4.7%

Emma's Umbrella is a challenging 2D precision platformer where you guide Emma through dangerous obstacles. Use her umbrella to create platforms, master precise movements, run, float, and wall-jump. Overcome tricky levels and help Emma find her way home!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 31.6%, Platformer 22.7%, Linear 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Retro 7.6%

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 52.2% ★, Underground 37.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, 2D 5.2%

In this 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure, you can mine, craft and fight your way through an almost endless universe full of procedurally generated planets.

Why similar: Underground 26.6% ★, Mining 22.3% ★, Science 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Exploration 7.7%

"Miner's Nook" is a strategic idle game blending probability management. Start by clicking, then recruit miners to automate. Use the unique "Destiny Panel" to adjust event odds. Don't leave it to fate—control your luck and build your mining empire.

Why similar: Mining 49.5% ★, Underground 46% ★, 2D 4.5%

Mortal Trap Dungeon is a precision platformer with exploration elements, with stages full of the most diverse enemies and traps!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 19.3%, Underground 19% ★, Platformer 12.2%, Old School 12.2%, Exploration 9.8%