- #1 Star Ores Inc.
97% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
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 31.2% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Space 14.6%, Exploration 7.5%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #2 Gold Digging Simulator
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Grab your shovel and dig into a world of hidden riches. Destroy the terrain, uncover gold, upgrade your gear, blast through the earth with dynamite, and see how deep you can go.
Why similar: Mining 36.8% ★, Sandbox 16%, Exploration 8.7%, Underground 8.5% ★, Physics 4.5%
- #3 Collapsed Horizon
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Sheyper
Windows
Travel between galaxies, dig planets, collect ores, sell them, upgrade your equipment, and earn your ticket back to Earth.
Why similar: Mining 46.9% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Exploration 11%, Space 10.8%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #4 A Game About Digging A Hole™
95% matchVery Positive89% of 20,153 reviews2025
Dev: DoubleBeePub: rokaplay select
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 30.7% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Underground 10.5% ★, Physics 8.8%, Exploration 6.9%
- #5 Meltopia
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,754 reviews2026
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 32.7% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Underground 12.4% ★, Physics 10.9%, Exploration 7.3%
- #6 I’m a Wizard, But I Dig
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
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 27.5% ★, Sandbox 21%, Simulation 10.2%, Exploration 9.3%, Underground 7.8% ★
- #7 The Ignition Protocol
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SuperKitowiec
Windows
The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.
Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Physics 11.9%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #8 Digging A Hole In Ice With A Chainsaw
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Four Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped in a pit with a chainsaw, you dig down through the ice, sell what you haul up, and buy upgrades and dynamite to go deeper, faster.
Why similar: Mining 36.8% ★, Underground 13.6% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Physics 10.5%, Exploration 6.9%
- #9 Infinimine
92% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Slikey Games
Windows
Welcome to the world of Infinimine! Start with a basic pickaxe and upgrade your gear as you mine your way deeper into the abyss. Mine an assortment of ores with your guildies as a party or solo to level up your guild for buffs as well as unlocking other mining classes..
Why similar: Mining 26.8% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 11%, Exploration 9.1%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
- #10 DRILLMASTER 9000
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Petardia Productions
Windows
Dig, collect resources, upgrade your drill and multitool, go deep underground and find a powerful shiny object.
Why similar: Mining 36.8% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Underground 10.3% ★, Exploration 8.3%, First-Person 7.2%
- #11 Mining My Own Business
90% match4 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: MemaHertz
Windows
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 43.4% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Underground 13.7% ★, Exploration 8.8%, Voxel 4.8% ★
- #12 DIG
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alkame Games
Windows
A chaotic online co-op digging game for 1-4 friends. Dig a hole together and keep digging deeper: smash blocks and ore, dig up silly hats, craft goods from lost blueprints and ship orders by cargo boat. Every hole gets deeper, richer and weirder. Just don't fall in.
Why similar: Mining 37.8% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Exploration 8.8%, First-Person 7.6%, Colorful 6.2%
- #13 Moon Rocks and Slimes
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voided Pixels Studio
Windows
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 32.5% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Space 18%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Exploration 10.2%
- #14 MORA Mining for freedom
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oduvan
Windows
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 34.7% ★, Sandbox 19.3%, Underground 10.3% ★, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 7.7%
- #15 Dig to China Simulator
86% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Normalno Games
Windows
Dig to China Simulator, is a simple game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster. No Monsters, No Fall Damage, 500 meters of pure digging.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Physics 9.7%, Colorful 7.5%, Exploration 7.3%
- #16 The Long Way Down
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoldtisticGames
Windows
THE LONG WAY DOWN is a first-person digging action game where you carve your own tunnels, mine valuable minerals, find unique items, and sell your finds to fund upgrades. Drill for oil, refine it into fuel, and keep pushing deeper. The deeper you go, the more demons you have to fight.
Why similar: Mining 36.8% ★, Underground 13.6% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Exploration 7.3%, Physics 7.1%
- #17 ULTRA MEGA DRILL
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glupy Cat Games
Windows
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 42.2% ★, Sandbox 22.6%, Underground 10.7% ★, Exploration 10.3%, Action-Adventure 8.6%
- #18 Astro Miner
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyLabsPub: QubicGames
Windows
Embark on a Colorful Journey Through the Galaxy! Explore new planets and mine various minerals using your vacuum gun!
Why similar: Mining 49.5% ★, Space 20.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Colorful 4.9%
- #19 VeinLight
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SoloMaestro
Windows
Dig, trade, and survive in this pixel-art roguelite. The darkness drains your life, but your voice is your shield: Speak into your microphone to ward off the shadows! Fill your daily quota to upgrade your gear, or face the wrath of the Cave Troll. Remember: Silence brings death.
Why similar: Mining 45.1% ★, Exploration 13.4%, Physics 11.3%, First-Person 9.9%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #20 Canary in a Crater
85% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Moose Development
Windows
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 42.8% ★, Physics 13.5%, Space 9.6%, Underground 7.1% ★, Exploration 7%
- #21 BERGWERK - A Mining Sim
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hindsight StudiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Build your own mining company in the coal region of Grubental! Construct your colliery above ground, descend into procedurally generated depths, and operate over 15 heavy machines. Master mine statics, infrastructure, complex transport networks, and sell your coal on dynamic markets.
Why similar: Mining 40.6% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Underground 14.9% ★, Simulation 9.8%, First-Person 5.7%
- #22 Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue
83% matchMixed66% of 309 reviews2022
Dev: Grande GamesPub: GamePlanet
Windows
Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
Why similar: Mining 42.1% ★, Sandbox 18.7%, Physics 13.6%, Exploration 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%
- #23 Starward Era
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
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 46% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Exploration 7.9%, Underground 6.7% ★, Space 6.5%
- #24 Tropical Treasure Hunt
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anomalie Studio
Windows
A casual treasure hunt on a tropical island. Follow your metal detector, dig some treasures, and upgrade your tools! All on a nice sunny day at the beach.
Why similar: Mining 48% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 9.2%, Simulation 4.7%
- #25 Coal Mining Simulator
82% matchMostly Negative34% of 183 reviews2023
Dev: GamePlanet
Windows
Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
Why similar: Mining 43.9% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 13.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #26 Drill and Delve
78% matchVery Positive87% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: noOne
Windows
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 25.6% ★, Sandbox 22.9%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 8.7%, Adventure 6.2%
- #27 Digging Out
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Logic Liminal
Windows
Digging Out is a realistic co-op digging game for up to 8 players. Work together to dig a tunnel, upgrade your tools, and break into the bank. Every shovel counts plan smart, dig deep, and pull off the perfect underground heist.
Why similar: Mining 51.3% ★, Sandbox 27.5%, First-Person 10%, Simulation 5.8%, Adventure 4.5%
- #28 Prospector Collector
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kevuru GamesPub: Dragonbird Studio
Windows
A first-person exploration and prospecting adventure where players pan, sluice, sift, and mine to discover rare gemstones and precious metals, each generated with realistic gemological attributes and unique natural shapes, where every expedition brings the feeling that you're not alone.
Why similar: Mining 31.9% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Simulation 9.4%, First-Person 7.3%
- #29 Astronomics
78% matchVery Positive89% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
Why similar: Mining 24.7% ★, Space 19.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Physics 14.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #30 Astrox Imperium
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,264 reviews2019
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
Why similar: Space 33.2%, Mining 31.7% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #31 Core Diggers
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gap Zero Games
Windows
Core Diggers is a co-op sci-fi digging game for up to 6 players. Explore an alien planet, excavate rare minerals, discover underground alien artifacts, sell your haul, and upgrade your tools and gear. Work together, dig deeper, and uncover what lies at the planet’s core.
Why similar: Mining 36.7% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Underground 9.8% ★, Exploration 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #32 We Are Busy Digging A Hole
77% matchMostly Negative29% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Hole
Windows
A relaxing cooperative digging adventure where you explore colorful underground worlds with friends. Team up to dig deeper, find valuable ores, upgrade your equipment, and collect rare dragons together.
Why similar: Mining 35.6% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Creature Collector 12.8%, Underground 12.7% ★, Exploration 7.4%
- #33 Exo Digger
76% matchNegative14% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: TornaGamesPub: AzaFoxySoftware
Windows
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: Mining 28.4% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Space 12.4%, Exploration 7.8%, Underground 7.6% ★
- #34 YBR-You Break Rocks
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lemon games
Windows
A first person game where you play as an ant. Move rocks, experiment with your rocks and explore at your own pace. A short experience focused on interaction, discovery and simple fun.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.1%, Physics 26.3%, Simulation 13.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Exploration 6.9%
- #35 PrimeCraft
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OpenFluke
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore a universe of tiny planets, swing between worlds, and jump into handcrafted bubble scenes. Train simple AI companions to follow you and join your adventures. A playful physics sandbox you can enjoy solo, online, or in split-screen.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Physics 16.1%, Space 16%, Exploration 10.9%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #36 Demon with a Pickaxe
74% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Challenging Games
Windows
A small game about a demon shattering his way out of an icy prison. Break apart statues, upgrade your demonic tools, and piece together the story of an ancient friendship.
Why similar: Mining 44.4% ★, Underground 12.7% ★, Exploration 10.2%, Physics 9.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #37 Rockfall
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kajter Games
Windows
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 54.4% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Underground 12.8% ★, Exploration 10.7%, Adventure 5.1%
- #38 Mole a Hole
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Wenkly Studio
Windows
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 44.3% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Exploration 8.4%, Underground 7.8% ★, Colorful 5.1%
- #39 Infploria
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: S19Games
Windows
Infploria is a game about infinitely mining and collecting ores. Upgrade your pickaxe, delve deeper to rarer Ores and attempt to reach to the Core of the Earth to mine Coresium.
Why similar: Mining 47.5% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 7.7%, Simulation 6.2%
- #40 The Long Mine
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Lynx
Windows
Physics based Incremental Mining game. Every strike removes real geometry. Upgrades come as equipment, allowing you stack effects and combine random bonuses into your own unique build and style. Curse yourself with random effects, some make you stronger, others make life harder.
Why similar: Mining 38.1% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Physics 12.8%, Underground 10.5% ★, Exploration 6.6%
- #41 Planet Miners
73% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Ice Games
Windows
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 39.3% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Underground 11.9% ★, Space 11%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #42 Moon Miner
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: mobx.games
Windows
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 44.3% ★, Space 19.2%, Underground 15.4% ★, Exploration 11.3%, Simulation 5.1%
- #43 DIGGING NERA
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PC FORGE EXPERIENCE
Windows
Explore an abandoned mining complex, dig through rock, gather resources and upgrade your equipment. Venture ever deeper into NERA, follow the traces left behind, and try to uncover what really happened beneath the surface.
Why similar: Mining 54.2% ★, Exploration 13.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Action-Adventure 7.9%, First-Person 7.4%
- #44 Submeris
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
Submeris is an underwater mining adventure set beneath a mysterious island. Dig, upgrade your gear, survive dangerous depths, and uncover the legendary treasure hidden far below the ocean floor!
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Physics 11.1%, Exploration 7%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #45 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
74% matchVery Positive84% of 455 reviews2015
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Why similar: Mining 35.1% ★, Space 28.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 9%, Adventure 4.2%
- #46 My Little Universe
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,265 reviews2023
Dev: EstotyPub: SayGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 41.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Space 15.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Colorful 5.6%
- #47 Deepvein
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Belowglow Studio
Windows
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 51.1% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Underground 10.2% ★, Exploration 9.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #48 Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,372 reviews2026
Dev: SpaceOpsPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Space 20.6%, Mining 20% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 15%, Sci-fi 9%
- #49 Beyond the Pitch
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Appocalypse Games
Windows
Dig beneath the pitch and uncover secrets no one was meant to find.
Why similar: Mining 20% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Underground 10.3% ★, Exploration 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
- #50 Basement
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Defeng Games
Windows
Basement is a first-person single-player adventure game where you dig and explore underground. Discover various items and face dangerous hazards hidden below. Reach the deepest point and claim the treasure!
Why similar: Mining 58.8% ★, Exploration 17.7%, First-Person 14.4%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #51 CellSar
72% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: DrSamatha
Windows
A sandbox game about collecting cells, building machines and organs out of cells and keeping them alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.3%, Creature Collector 17.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Adventure 8.3%
- #52 Fjellward
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seaside Baboon
Windows
Fjellward is a 2D sandbox game set in a procedurally generated world. Gather pixels, find villagers and rebuild your town.
Why similar: Mining 42.3% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Physics 12.1%, Exploration 10.1%, Colorful 6.6%
- #53 Non-Euclidean Design
68% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Dennis Gaming
Windows
Design your home in the non-Euclidean world.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Space 19.1%, Sci-fi 11.4%, First-Person 9.9%, Colorful 9.4%
- #54 Miner Shop Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Meerkatt Studio
Windows · Linux
Miner Shop Simulator is a hands-on mining and shop management sim. Dig for resources, refine raw ore into valuable goods, stock your shelves, serve customers, and grow a small mining shop into a thriving business.
Why similar: Mining 47.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Exploration 10%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Simulation 9%
- #55 Medusa Frontier
71% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Render Goblin Games
Windows
Medusa Frontier is a budget sci-fi survival game being developed with OpenGL & C++. Gameplay is currently limited to resource gathering and base building on a 1k terrain map.
Why similar: Mining 34.2% ★, Sandbox 18%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Exploration 8.2%, First-Person 7.3%
- #56 Asteroid Rodeo
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Buried Signal Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Why similar: Mining 35.8% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Space 12.1%, Physics 7.6%, Exploration 7.6%
- #57 Project Klorp
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Static Drift
Windows
Lead an expedition into an unexplored solar system. Build rockets, aircraft, and other vehicles, discover new worlds, gather resources, complete missions, unlock technology, and grow a colony of tiny purple Klorps in this spaceflight sandbox.
Why similar: Space 24.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Physics 16.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Exploration 7.6%
- #58 Industronaut
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 34.9% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Space 14.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%, First-Person 6.7%
- #59 Dig Out of The Backrooms
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TarpoPub: Tarpo dev
Windows
Dive into the Backrooms! Grab your pickaxe and shovel and dig your way to freedom. Gather resources, upgrade your tools, and dig deeper. Explore mysterious corridors, but beware - something dangerous may be lurking in the dark. Dig. Survive. Escape!
Why similar: Mining 36.4% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Exploration 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%, First-Person 6.9%
- #60 Dig For Riches
64% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
Dig For Riches is a realistic mining simulation. Dig the earth, extract valuable minerals, haul them to the surface by cart and sell them. Use your earnings to upgrade your equipment, dig deeper, and face increasing dangers.
Why similar: Mining 38.8% ★, Underground 14.7% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 10.8%, Exploration 7%