Games Like Mining Mechs

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: Co-op 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox game that perfectly blends mining, base-building, and exploration in a massive, procedurally generated underground world.

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

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the industrial side of mining, allowing you to build complex automation systems to extract and process valuable resources.

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Mining 58.9% ★, Robots 14.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Exploration 5.1%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the gold standard for 2D mining exploration, focusing on satisfying movement and deep, rewarding upgrade paths.

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 55.3%, Procedural Generation 31.3%, Exploration 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cooperative mining experience, featuring destructible environments and intense underground exploration with friends.

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

Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Co-op 15%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox that offers endless mining, exploration, and progression, making it a perfect fit for fans of the genre.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Mining 38.4% ★, Mechs 25.7% ★, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite that combines mining with tower defense, forcing you to balance resource gathering with protecting your mobile base.

Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.

Why similar: Mining 49.1% ★, Underground 18.3% ★, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Family Friendly 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual predecessor to modern mining games, featuring addictive underground drilling and upgrade mechanics.

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 25.2%, Multiplayer 19.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Exploration 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and terrain deformation, providing a relaxing yet engaging mining and crafting experience in co-op.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Co-op 15.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the mining loop into a sci-fi adventure, allowing you to explore diverse planets and upgrade your gear for deeper excavation.

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 29.6%, Crafting 29.1%, Co-op 17.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines mining and resource gathering with intense base defense mechanics as you struggle to survive on a hostile planet.

Miner Meltdown is an action-packed team-based multiplayer game. Scour the map for minerals, upgrade your gear, and attempt to blow up the opposing team all the while avoiding monsters, traps, and environmental pitfalls along the way.

Why similar: Mining 37.1% ★, Side Scroller 14.6%, Co-op 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic 2D multiplayer game that focuses on mining and team-based combat in destructible environments.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Co-op 19.4%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Robots 13%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a strong focus on building and resource management that supports cooperative play.

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 13%, Multiplayer 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming adventure game that encourages cooperative exploration, mining, and building in a pixelated world.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 32.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly satisfying, fast-paced loop of gathering, mining, and crafting that keeps you constantly progressing.

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 29.8% ★, Underground 25.8% ★, Mechs 24.1% ★, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Exploration 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the steampunk aesthetic and mechanical progression of mining games in a casual, accessible package.

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 28.2% ★, Underground 23.8% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and focused experience that strips the genre down to its core satisfying loop of digging.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Co-op 18%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Multiplayer 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes mining and boss progression, featuring robust multiplayer support.

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Mining 48.3% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Exploration 8.9%, Colorful 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, satisfying mining and crafting game that focuses on expanding your world through resource collection.

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 26.5% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%, Side Scroller 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep sandbox mechanics, allowing for extensive mining and creature collection in a vibrant 2D world.

Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!

Why similar: Mining 32.2% ★, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Family Friendly 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure-focused mining game that encourages exploration and crafting across various island environments.

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: Crafting 30.8%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Co-op 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that incorporates mining, automation, and exploration with a high degree of freedom.

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.1%, Crafting 30.1%, Pixel Graphics 24.6%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a highly advanced physics engine where every pixel can be mined or manipulated, offering a unique underground experience.

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

Why similar: Mining 60.9% ★, Co-op 11.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Casual 6.6%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and casual mining game that focuses on the simple joy of digging and upgrading your gear.

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: Crafting 27.9%, Sandbox 27.5%, Co-op 19.6%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

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

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.9%, Co-op 28.3%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on platforming, its core loop of exploring dangerous, destructible underground caves is highly relevant.

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 34.4% ★, Underground 27.9% ★, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Sandbox 8%, Exploration 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style mining game that emphasizes the relaxing and repetitive nature of resource collection.

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 27.6%, Co-op 18%, Crafting 16.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, its mining and resource-gathering loops are central to its progression and highly rewarding in co-op.

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 19.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Underground 12.5% ★, Side Scroller 9.7%, Sandbox 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: Mechs 16.3% ★, Underground 14.9% ★, Mining 14% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Side Scroller 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 37.8% ★, Online Co-Op 19.9%, Co-op 16.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 6.6%

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

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 50.2%, Multiplayer 28.3%, Family Friendly 16.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: While a tower defense game, it shares the co-op, upgrade, and resource-gathering DNA found in many mining-focused titles.

You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!

Why similar: Mining 38.7% ★, Underground 31% ★, Robots 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%, Casual 3.6%

DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.

Why similar: Mining 37.4% ★, Underground 33.7% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Exploration 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%

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 28.6% ★, Underground 26.5% ★, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 6.4%

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 70.6% ★, Casual 11.7%, Colorful 9.4%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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 30.9% ★, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.5%

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 76.4% ★, Casual 9.3%, Colorful 5.5%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Drill into the depths of a meteor crater in this incremental adventure. Mine ores, unlock upgrades and find the cosmic treasure that lies below! Can you uncover what happened to the Moles that came before you?

Why similar: Mining 41.1% ★, Underground 31.6% ★, Exploration 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Casual 3.6%

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Mining 25% ★, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Co-op 15.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Leap, climb, and launch your friends in this chaotic co-op extraction platformer for up to 6 players! Use your drill-wrench to build your way across a vibrant post-apocalyptic world, find replacement parts, and fix broken machines. And if you lose your head, don’t worry: it’s all part of the job.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.2%, Co-op 24.7%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Exploration 8.3%

Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!

Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Underground 33.5% ★, Crafting 11%, Robots 8.7%, Exploration 4.3%

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 51.9% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Sandbox 5.7%

Dive into the Ocean Keeper – a cooperative roguelike where four survival miners defend their Mech Spider, fight with endless hordes of monsters, and dig for resources. Team up with your friends, upgrade between waves, and survive the deep caves, full of treasures… if you can.

Why similar: Mechs 29.5% ★, Robots 16.6%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Procedural Generation 11%, Multiplayer 10.6%

An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.

Why similar: Mining 59.3% ★, Underground 19.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Casual 6.8%, Indie 3.4%

The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!

Why similar: Mining 32.3% ★, Mechs 26.9% ★, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.1%, Co-op 17.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%

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: Mining 59.8% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Adventure 6.8%, Colorful 6%, Casual 5.8%

Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.

Why similar: Mining 56.4% ★, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Exploration 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Casual 4.3%

Dig up the Adamant Core from a procedurally generated mine, extract ores, sell them for profit, upgrade your equipment, and keep the King happy by sending him tributes before he loses his temper!

Why similar: Mining 36.4% ★, Underground 32.2% ★, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Side Scroller 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%

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: Mining 35.3% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Family Friendly 11.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Co-op 8.8%

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Why similar: Mining 33.8% ★, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.1%

Dig, build rails, and survive underground as a Goblin miner for WHAAG MINING INC. Light your path or the darkness will drain your life. Explore fully destructible biomes, fight hostile creatures, and hunt the legendary Giant Crystal, solo or online co-op

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Co-op 24.4%, Mining 23.5% ★, Multiplayer 12.4%, Exploration 8.8%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Mining 27.3% ★, Online Co-Op 19.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.2%

Jump, Dash, Slide! Dive into a classic 3D platformer experience with Boti: Byteland Overclocked. Explore the stylized insides of a computer as a determined data robot and save Byteland from an ominous threat. Play solo or team up with a friend in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Robots 20.5%, Co-op 20%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Family Friendly 7.7%

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.

Why similar: Mining 56.7% ★, Crafting 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Colorful 5.5%, Casual 3.9%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Mining 35.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 25.8%, Procedural Generation 21.6%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 5.8%

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: Robots 17.8%, Co-op 15%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.4%

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 38% ★, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 16.5%, Exploration 8.1%, Family Friendly 6.5%