Games Like Out of Ore

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 24.7% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A mining and base-building sandbox that relies heavily on physics-based mechanics and machinery.

Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Why similar: Mining 32.5% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Realistic 13.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a direct thematic match for mining operations, focusing on the heavy equipment needed to extract gold.

Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.

Why similar: Building 23.6%, Simulation 18.5%, Realistic 16.7%, Open World 11.3%, Relaxing 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for operating authentic heavy machinery in a realistic construction environment.

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Building 28.2%, Simulation 18.9%, Realistic 14%, Physics 11.5%, Exploration 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistics and heavy machinery required to rebuild infrastructure in a realistic setting.

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Realistic 15.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Exploration 10.1%, Third Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most advanced physics-based heavy vehicle operation in challenging, muddy terrain.

Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Realistic 11.4%, Building 10%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive simulation for operating a wide range of heavy agricultural machinery and managing complex logistics.

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Realistic 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the manual labor and industrial dismantling loop found in heavy machinery-focused games.

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.7%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Realistic 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox experience centered on the manual labor of salvaging and repairing heavy machinery.

Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.

Why similar: Building 16.4%, Realistic 15.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Management 12%, Simulation 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, realistic focus on the maintenance and restoration of complex heavy machinery.

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Simulation 23.4%, Realistic 21.9%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.4%, Physics 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the raw, realistic physics of driving heavy trucks through difficult, unpaved environments.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.6%, Simulation 23.9%, Realistic 21.1%, First-Person 8.1%, 3D 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the satisfying, hands-on mechanical repair loop found in industrial simulation games.

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 24.4% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 10%, Management 9.2%, Exploration 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a thematic focus on industrial mining operations and the use of heavy equipment.

Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.

Why similar: Mining 20.9% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.8%, Realistic 8.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines excavation and heavy machinery usage in a realistic, task-focused simulation.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Building 15.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale mining and factory-building within a first-person, exploration-heavy sandbox.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.6%, Realistic 21.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Open World 11%, Physics 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features an unrivaled soft-body physics engine that makes operating vehicles feel incredibly realistic.

Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.8%, Simulation 17.2%, Realistic 15.8%, First-Person 13.3%, Relaxing 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the meditative, task-oriented loop of industrial maintenance and cleaning.

Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.

Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Simulation 26%, Realistic 20.4%, Building 12.2%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game focused on building and operating complex, physics-based machinery.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Simulation 17.4%, Building 15.9%, Management 13.1%, Realistic 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the manual labor and management of an industrial-style business in a sandbox setting.

Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

Why similar: Sandbox 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox experience centered on vehicle maintenance and rural life in a realistic setting.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense resource management and base-building in a harsh, realistic environment.

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, Building 19.3%, Simulation 15%, Relaxing 8.5%, Realistic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the satisfying, first-person loop of renovating and building within a sandbox environment.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Simulation 11%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes deep-crust mining and terraforming.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.7%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A building sim that emphasizes resource management, water physics, and terraforming.

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining and base-building with a strong emphasis on exploration and resource management.

Craft weapons, armor and tools, manage resources and expand your workshop. Experience realistic physics-based forging, unlock new recipes and special orders, and interact with a medieval town's inhabitants as you work to become the greatest blacksmith in the land.

Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Mining 16.4% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Relaxing 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the hands-on process of crafting and managing a workshop in a first-person perspective.

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 11%, Crafting 8.3%

Pure Rock Crawling is a physics based off-road simulator. Featuring soft body tires, suspension customization that affects your handling, true to life drivetrain simulation and visual addons. Explore a variety of trails in free roam with multiple challenges.

Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Realistic 16%, Simulation 13.7%, Exploration 10%, Third Person 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the physics of off-road driving, matching the terrain challenges found in heavy equipment sims.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex, realistic systems for atmospheric and resource management in a building-focused environment.

Step into the boots of an aspiring blacksmith in a first-person sandbox where exploration and forging go hand in hand. Discover rare ores, master forgotten forging arts, and craft weapons of myth as you uncover secrets lost to time and claim your place among legends.

Why similar: Mining 25% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a detailed crafting and manual labor loop similar to industrial-focused simulation games.

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 17.9% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 7.6%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9%

Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Farming Sim 11%

Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?

Why similar: Mining 19.5% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.1%

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 23.7% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 9.5%, Realistic 7.7%

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: Sandbox 20.1%, Building 16%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Simulation 9.9%

Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!

Why similar: Farming Sim 41%, Simulation 12.5%, Building 10.2%, Realistic 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.3%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Simulation 10%

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 37.3%, Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 8.4%, Realistic 7.3%

Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 8.9%

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.2%, Management 13%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Realistic 16.9%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Open World 10.7%, Exploration 10%

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 36.7% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Exploration 9.9%, Relaxing 9.6%

Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Building 15.2%, Management 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Realistic 8.3%

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Realistic 11.2%, Open World 9.3%

Farming & town living sim. Develop the farm of your dreams using tools, tractors, trucks & other vehicles. Build cabins, sheds, barns, and more! Hire workers to help out in your farm. Grow thousands of crops, raise hundreds of livestock and explore the world of Farmington County!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.6%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 9.6%

Start from scratch and rise with scrap, dig through trash, process junk, and grow your profits. Buy warehouses, machines, and vehicles to build your own recycling empire.

Why similar: Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Simulation 12.6%

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Realistic 12.7%, First-Person 8.5%

Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.8%, Mining 21.2% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 12.7%, Realistic 10.8%

Operate, configure and expand your own recycling center in this first-person simulator! Work fast and sort the trash. Use the compactors to destroy the bulky waste. Earn satisfaction and cash to buy new containers and unlock new trash types. Use the second hand shop to sell re-usable items.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.7%, Realistic 17%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 12.3%, Building 11.7%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%

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: Sandbox 31.5%, Mining 20.1% ★, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 11.7%, 3D 8.7%

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Why similar: Realistic 20.7%, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 16.4%, Open World 11%, First-Person 10.6%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Simulation 17.3%, Management 15.4%, Building 15%, First-Person 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%

Deconstruction Simulator is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Building 18.4%, Realistic 14.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 10.5%

Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.

Why similar: Building 21.5%, Realistic 21%, Simulation 18.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Relaxing 9.2%

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.3%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Realistic 8.5%