Games Like Out of Ore

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 32.7% ★, Simulation 18.4%, Realistic 13.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact same core fantasy of operating heavy machinery to unearth precious gold and build a mining empire.

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 24.9% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 8.7%, Realistic 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource extraction, heavy equipment operation, and managing an underground mining business.

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 25.1% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar sandbox approach to mining, earth-moving, and building complex resource-processing setups.

Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!

Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Building 13.7%, Realistic 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the historical gold-mining hustle, manual labor, and harsh wilderness exploration of the Klondike era.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Building 15.6%, Mining 13.4% ★, Management 13.3%, Simulation 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the industrial management and resource extraction aspects of building a massive operational empire.

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 23.9%, Simulation 18.3%, Realistic 16.9%, Open World 11.8%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same satisfying operation of massive, realistic heavy machinery to complete demanding infrastructure jobs.

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Mining 15.8% ★, Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resource gathering, mining, and building in a sandbox environment that appeals to simulation fans.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Mining 15.7% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Blends realistic survival mechanics, base building, and heavy-duty equipment operation in a harsh environment.

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 21.3%, Realistic 15.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Exploration 10.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Presents the same grueling, physics-driven vehicle operation and heavy hauling through unforgiving terrain.

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 22.6%, Realistic 22.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 12.8%, Physics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same intense, physics-heavy driving mechanics focused on moving heavy cargo through treacherous mud and wilderness.

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 36.5%, Building 18.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 8.7%, Realistic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines heavy vehicle operation, open-world exploration, and business management in a rural setting.

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 17.3%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Open World 11.3%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same rugged, open-world driving and survival experience across harsh northern landscapes.

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 30.7%, Simulation 23.8%, Realistic 22.1%, First-Person 7.7%, 3D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same mechanical intricacy, hands-on tool usage, and satisfying task progression.

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 17%, Building 11.5%, Realistic 11%, Simulation 11%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Involves processing scrap, operating heavy machinery, and turning a humble salvage business into an empire.

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 17.6%, Building 16%, Management 12.8%, Realistic 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building up a remote business from scratch through hands-on labor and management.

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 19.1%, Realistic 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Simulation 11%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the heavy-duty industrial labor and resource reclamation theme found in Out of Ore.

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.4%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 10.9%, Third Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same meticulous, authentic heavy vehicle operation and economic management loop.

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 20.2%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 15%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the urge to extract resources and build massive automated industrial setups into first-person 3D.

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 25.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to simulation fans with its heavy focus on resource management, engineering, and building infrastructure.

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 28.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Realistic 14.3%, Physics 11.1%, Exploration 11%

Why You'll Like It: Combines heavy machinery operation, logistics, and infrastructure rebuilding in a physics-based world.

Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.

Why similar: Simulation 31.7%, Building 25.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Realistic 7.6%, First-Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you behind the controls of heavy construction and demolition machinery to complete large-scale jobs.

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: Sandbox 23.5%, Base Building 22.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the deep satisfaction of scaling up a messy extraction operation into an efficient automated empire.

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 22.6%, Building 19.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Realistic 8.5%, Relaxing 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Involves the same methodical, first-person renovation and property-improvement gameplay loop.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Simulation 27.8%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 13.6%, First-Person 13.5%, Realistic 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a first-person, open-world sandbox experience built around methodical planning and execution.

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 17.6% ★, Farming Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Building 21.7%, Sandbox 21.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 13.8%, Realistic 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to sandbox construction fans who love meticulously placing structures and designing spaces.

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 25.5% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 7.6%

Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.5%, Realistic 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on scaling up an agricultural business through careful resource management and expansion.

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 18.5% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Management 8.8%, Building 7.8%

Use the latest technology and state-of-the-art licensed machines to manage all aspects of modern farming. Travel between Europe, Asia, and both Americas to plant region-specific crops such as hemp, coffee beans, and olives. Farm your way thanks to three unique game modes tailored to both simulation veterans and newcomers to farming games.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Realistic 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features authentic vehicle handling, resource management, and rural economic simulation.

“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 22.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Base 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 21.7%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Farming Sim 10.9%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 8.3%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 9.2%

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 19.6%, Mining 14.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8%

Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Mining 19.2% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Realistic 11.9%, Building 11.2%

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 24.2% ★, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 9%, Realistic 7.8%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Sandbox 15.1%, Mining 12.9% ★, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9%

You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 11%, Crafting 8.5%

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 21.3% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11.9%, Realistic 9%, Management 8.1%

Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%

Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.

Why similar: Building 17%, Realistic 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 11.6%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Mining 13.4% ★

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 32.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 11.2%, Exploration 9.9%

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 16.5%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Realistic 9.5%

Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.4%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 14.8%, Realistic 12.5%, First-Person 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: Sandbox 20.3%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 9.7%

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: Sandbox 21%, Mining 13.5% ★, Realistic 12.9%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 10.5%

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 27.1%, Mining 21.6% ★, Sandbox 16%, Building 12.8%, Realistic 10.9%

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 23.4% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Realistic 10.4%, Management 10.3%

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 33.3%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Simulation 9.5%

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 20.2%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 12.1%, Realistic 8.5%

Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 10.8%

With Music Store Simulator Prologue you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Realistic 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%

Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.9%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 12.8%

In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!

Why similar: Sandbox 19.5%, Management 14%, Building 13.5%, Realistic 12.7%, Simulation 12%

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 15.3%, Mining 14.1% ★, Crafting 11.5%

You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.7%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Realistic 8.7%