- #1 Loded Depths
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: skitterbyte
Windows
Mine, fight, and survive in hostile underground biomes as you uncover the secrets of a lost civilization in this exploration survival RPG.
Why similar: Mining 23.2% ★, Underground 15% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.1% ★, Loot 9.6%, PvE 7.7%
- #2 Mining Mechs
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,723 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Why similar: Mining 24.3% ★, Underground 18.1% ★, Mechs 17.5% ★, Robots 12.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #3 Dignaut
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Angle Games
Windows
Dignaut is a chill sci-fi space adventure where you drill into alien terrain to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore a mysterious planet with multiple biomes, upgrade your gear, and uncover the secrets of an ancient, buried alien civilization.
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Underground 24.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Loot 12.3%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #4 Collapsed Horizon
94% matchNo user reviews2026
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 35.2% ★, Sandbox 13%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Open World 9.7%, Space 8.6%
- #5 1WEEK
94% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Pedro Acuña
Windows
1WEEK is a single-player PvE survival sandbox set in a post-apocalyptic world. Dig an underground shelter, explore hostile biomes, loot, gather resources, craft, farm, and fight to become self-sufficient before your week’s supplies run out.
Why similar: Mining 25.1% ★, Underground 17.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.4% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #6 A Good Day to Pie
93% match7 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: JamSnack
Windows
Action-packed Survival Sandbox game focused on Base Building and Wave Defense. Defend the Pie from the horde of Evil Pie-Stealing Gremlins by exploring the regions, collecting resources, crafting items, and building defenses.
Why similar: Mining 27.4% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World Survival Craft 10.6% ★, Loot 10%, PvE 7.3%
- #7 Hotfix
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 75 reviews2020
Dev: ol-web
Windows
Hotfix is a chromosome enriched solo indie game inspired by Minecraft and Enter the Gungeon. Create your own - near infinite - world full of randomly generated structures filled with guns and loot. Explore, build, and gather resources during the day and avoid robotic "dogs" powering up at night.
Why similar: Mining 20.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.6% ★, Robots 11.3%, Loot 11%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #8 Miner: Dig Deep
91% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2020
Dev: Substance Games
Windows
A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.
Why similar: Mining 32.6% ★, Underground 21.3% ★, Loot 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #9 Cell 413 : Mine & Survive
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Meerkatt Studio
Windows
A survival game in the life of a prisoner digging a hole to escape. Explore the procedurally generated underground, outsmart the guards, build your base, craft tools and find a way out of there!
Why similar: Mining 30.8% ★, Underground 21% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
- #10 Star Valor
90% matchVery Positive89% of 3,421 reviews2022
Dev: Rafael Burgos
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Why similar: Mining 25.8% ★, Loot 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Space 8.7%
- #11 Ad Fundum
89% matchVery Positive92% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: Oldbut Gold
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.2% ★, Underground 21.7% ★, Mechs 21.6% ★, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #12 Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game
89% matchPositive88% of 42 reviews2021
Dev: JustWallWireHead GamesPub: JustWallWirehead Games
Windows
In this 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure, you can mine, craft and fight your way through an almost endless universe full of procedurally generated planets.
Why similar: Underground 21.3% ★, Mining 19.7% ★, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Loot 9.5%, PvE 8.7%
- #13 Moon Rocks and Slimes
88% 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 29.5% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 11.4%, Sci-fi 11%, Space 10.3%
- #14 Meltopia
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,678 reviews2026
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 30.5% ★, Underground 22.8% ★, Loot 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.6%
- #15 Drown World
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Meat Lab
Windows
Drown World combines grid-based mining with a pixel-perfect elemental simulation. Dig for resources, upgrade equipment at your airship, and carve your way through a volatile underground world in search of long-lost dwarven relics as waves of rain flood the tunnels you leave behind.
Why similar: Mining 41.6% ★, Underground 17.5% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Exploration 4.7%
- #16 Astromine
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alientrap
Windows
Astromine is a survival mining game about scavenging fully destructible planets. Designed for 1 to 4 players. Land on planets and gather enough materials to fight off alien creatures, fight robot factions, build structures and spaceships, and conquer the solar system
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Open World Survival Craft 14% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #17 Magma Fever
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 米拉桔製作
Windows
"Magma Fever" is a 2D pixel-style mining action-adventure game. You will pilot a mech and dig into an underground volcanic world. Complete missions and confront enemies in various environment, overcome disasters like earthquakes and lava surges, bring back ores to upgrade your mech at the base.
Why similar: Mining 28.5% ★, Mechs 21.2% ★, Underground 20.6% ★, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #18 Unearthed
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitWatson
Windows · Linux
Unearthed is top down mining adventure set in a procedurally generated blocky underground world. Explore endless cave systems filled with dangerous creatures and unexpected companions. Mine resources, survive the depths, and rebuild the world as you see it fit.
Why similar: Mining 40% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, Procedural Generation 16%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.5%
- #19 Starfuse
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Devshift
Windows
Embark on an epic sci-fi sandbox adventure across multiple planets in this 2D sidescroller. Explore, fight creatures, craft, and build in in a fully destructible world. Unleash the power of simulated elements, ride vehicles, and customize your character.
Why similar: Mining 18.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Open World 8.1%
- #20 Meor
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nel
Windows
An experimental voxel sandbox.
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World Survival Craft 12% ★, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #21 BLASTRONAUT
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Mining 32.9% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Open World 8.9%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #22 Cosmorists
82% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 11%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
- #23 Aerial Battle Frame: Vernion
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Nexith Lab
Windows
Control a robot with the mouse and challenge yourself to find the way out of a dark, twisting cave!
Why similar: Mechs 34.5% ★, Robots 22.3%, Underground 18.6% ★, Sci-fi 10.9%, Exploration 5.1%
- #24 PlaneWorld
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: La Maison du Nourson
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D pixel art survival sandbox where you mine, build, craft and explore procedurally generated worlds. Fight 5 epic bosses, farm, enchant your gear and survive. From casual to hardcore permadeath!
Why similar: Underground 19.8% ★, Mining 19.1% ★, Sandbox 17%, Procedural Generation 12%, Open World 11.4%
- #25 Off-World Prospecting
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prospector Games
Windows
Off-World Prospecting is a game about exploring and striking out on your own on an alien planet, and becoming the ultimate prospector as you survey the land for valuable fauna, minerals, artifacts and more, and search for your long missing sister in an uncaring yet endlessly enticing landscape.
Why similar: Mining 39.6% ★, Sandbox 17%, Underground 11.9% ★, Space 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #26 Astronomics
78% matchVery Positive90% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22% ★, Robots 16%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11.3%
- #27 MORA Mining for freedom
79% 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 32.9% ★, Underground 19.4% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Loot 12%, Exploration 6.6%
- #28 Orebiters
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Explorer Tales
Windows · Linux
Become an independent miner in worlds full of monsters and dangers that keep living even when you're not around. Dig deeper, gather resources, upgrade your machine, and build a crew. Shape living worlds that react to your every move. Each expedition brings different conditions, threats, and outcomes
Why similar: Mining 40.9% ★, Underground 24.8% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Exploration 6.4%
- #29 A Game About Digging A Hole™
76% matchVery Positive89% of 20,036 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 31.1% ★, Underground 21.1% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Loot 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #30 Apexiom
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: QuesoPub: Queso Studios
Windows
Explore an open, procedurally-generated world, loot caves, chests and fight monsters to craft better gear. Can you take on the toughest bosses to unlock new abilties and become increasingly overpowered?
Why similar: Mining 30.7% ★, Open World 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Loot 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #31 Mithril
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Agentic Games
Windows
Explore and mine in procedural caves. Master using struts to delve deeper and support the ceiling before it falls . Build automation chains to process ores. Then manipulate lava and trigger Dormancy to crystallise new ones where it once flowed. Same world. New cave. New dangers. The world remembers.
Why similar: Mining 29.5% ★, Underground 18.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 13.7% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 7.4%
- #32 Sandboxed
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: xOFFSET on tiktokPub: xOFFSET
Windows
Sandboxed is a singleplayer and multiplayer sandbox, where you build and survive in a world where you do whatever your creativity lets you
Why similar: Mining 32.6% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Crafting 7.8%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
- #33 Caverns: Lost Sky
78% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Tetravoxel Limited
Windows
Caverns: Lost Sky is a single player action-adventure RPG set in a fully destructible, voxelized subterranean realm. Join Strato in the Tellurian Sector as he battles hordes of Fera in his quest to find the sky. Level up and increase your stats, or ascend the caverns searching for buried treasure.
Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Underground 18.8% ★, Loot 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Open World 8.4%
- #34 Shuttle Mining
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ArachnocoderPub: Arahnocoder
Windows
Shuttle Mining is a Noita- and Terraria-inspired cozy & chaotic mining game. Craft your own unique lasers, burn, taze, and make things explode. The goal is to craft new batteries so you can use stronger lasers and dig deeper...
Why similar: Mining 29% ★, Underground 26.9% ★, PvE 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #35 Wonderia
73% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
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 26.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Crafting 7%
- #36 Rock Digger
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rockin' Games
Windows
Start as a humble rock and evolve into a rock-digging rock star! Dig for resources, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets after crash-landing on an alien planet. Unearth countless upgrades and gain powerful abilities. Explore mysterious new worlds. Reach the core. Ascend to Rock God!
Why similar: Mining 40.3% ★, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 7%
- #37 Super Mining Mechs
73% matchVery Positive87% of 882 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Mining 23.1% ★, Mechs 23% ★, Underground 19.8% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #38 Deep Digger
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Julian Ponce Cabrera
Windows
Your dog buried your homework, so you are digging up the planet to find it. A pixel-art mining incremental: dig, sell, upgrade, prestige, go deeper. 19 ores, sealed treasure caves, portals to other dimensions, and a neighbour who pays for odd jobs in junk.
Why similar: Mining 41.7% ★, Underground 26.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Loot 7.3%
- #39 Pixel Divers
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Explorers
Windows · Mac
The surface was never the whole story. Something ancient calls from the floor of an alien sea. Dive with your crew through seven ever-darker layers: mine, craft, build bases, crew subs, and guard your air and sanity as the ocean turns hostile. It has been expecting you.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 14.7% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, PvE 7.3%
- #40 Infinity Islets
72% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Suspicious Penguin
Windows
Dig. Discover. Collect. Create. From robots to bananas, discover random interdimensional artifacts and craft exhibits limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Mining 28.9% ★, Underground 22% ★, Loot 13.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11%
- #41 Mining My Own Business
71% 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 43.9% ★, Underground 27.4% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Exploration 6.9%, Open World 3.3%
- #42 Mine Farm
70% matchPositive94% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: JHL GAMES
Windows
Mine Farm is a progressive mining RPG centered on the pure joy of looting. Mine various minerals, challenge colossal entities, and find your way out of the unknown. Be warned: the journey home won't be easy.
Why similar: Mining 50.7% ★, Underground 33.1% ★, RPG 16.2%
- #43 Tesera
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Frame Technologies LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tesera is a sci-fi sandbox game in a mysterious alien world. Explore an endless voxel world, defend yourself against aggressive creatures and drones, building your dream settlement alone or with friends.
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Sandbox 15%, Robots 13%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Open World 10.3%
- #44 DIG
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alkame Games
Windows
Dig, discover, and compete in this digging hole adventure! Unearth rare treasures, sell your findings, upgrade your gear, expand holes uncover hidden secrets beneath the surface. Who will dig the deepest?
Why similar: Mining 31.1% ★, Underground 23% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Loot 9.5%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #45 Fractured Voyage
73% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Jackson Helm
Windows · Mac
In this 2D sci-fi survival based game you must endure the difficulty of surviving on an alien planet, and need to adventure, dig and build your way to freedom.
Why similar: Mining 34.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Procedural Generation 11.9%, PvE 9.5%, Space 9.2%
- #46 Sustained
69% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Iconic Studios
Windows
This is a open world Survival Zombie game with survival mechanics in single player and (PVP) (PVE) in Multiplayer or Co-Op. Join a few friends and look who can survive the island full of zombies and other players trying to survive like you, it has base building, Crafting, food, water, Temperatures.
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Loot 13.6%, Open World 7.2%, PvE 7.2%
- #47 Mining Merchant
67% matchVery Positive88% of 421 reviews2026
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 36.2% ★, Underground 18.3% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Mechs 12.2% ★, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #48 Solar System Colonist
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asteroid MinersPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
The conquest of the Solar System has begun – prove yourself as a space colonist! Pilot the spaceship, choose the planet you wish to inhabit and build your new home. However, remember that there are no rules or laws in outer space. Don't underestimate the danger and stay vigilant – enemies are near!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Procedural Generation 13%, Open World 12.9%, Space 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.5%
- #49 VIFA
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NavySparkStudio
Windows
Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Robots 18.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%, PvE 8.6%
- #50 Medusa Frontier
70% 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 31% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★, Sci-fi 11.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #51 Afterdepth
67% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Dannark Studios
Windows · Mac
Explore, build, and survive in the depths of a forgotten world. Manage oxygen, power, and resources as you uncover the secrets buried beneath the surface.
Why similar: Mining 43.4% ★, Underground 19.6% ★, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Crafting 6.7%, Exploration 6.5%
- #52 The Long Mine
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Lynx
Windows
Minimal UI, maximum physics. Break rocks apart, move the chunks by hand, and collect the ore. Explore deeper caves, scan its quality, then smelt, craft, sell, and gamble your EXP on unpredictable perks.
Why similar: Mining 42% ★, Underground 22.7% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 9%, Loot 5.4%
- #53 Cube Universe
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Beosar
Windows
Cube Universe is a first-person voxel RPG. Visit many different, procedurally generated planets. Team up with your friends to fight against fierce enemies in dungeons. Do quests to save the world from the forces of evil - or throw it into chaos.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, RPG 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12%, Open World 9.3%
- #54 MINERALS: Deep Core Mining
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: THINK & FEEL
Windows
Mine the vast underground and collect ores and gemstones—collect! collect! collect like crazy! “MINERALS: Deep Core Mining” is an over-the-top mining game with roguelite elements. Use the resources you gather to upgrade your abilities and take on an endless underground that changes with every run!
Why similar: Mining 33.7% ★, Underground 23.5% ★, Mechs 17.8% ★, Loot 13.7%, Crafting 5.5%
- #55 No Man's Mines
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Great Attractor Games
Windows
Dig into fully destructible spherical planets and carve real caves from crust to molten core. Mine rare minerals, refine ore, and upgrade your suit and ship. Travel between worlds and fight pirates in open space. How deep can you go before your oxygen runs out?
Why similar: Mining 43.6% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Space 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Open World 6.7%
- #56 DRILLMASTER 9000
68% 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 38.1% ★, Underground 21.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Exploration 6.7%
- #57 Super Motherload
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 948 reviews2014
Dev: XGen Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 50.9% ★, Underground 15.2% ★, Loot 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%, RPG 5.7%
- #58 The Last Dig
66% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Chuckle Interactive
Windows
Dig to the center of the Earth before time runs out. Mine gems to sell on the black market, build up your infrastructure, uncover relics of forgotten civilizations, and upgrade to face the dangers of the deep. Don't get caught by bandits or authorities while you drill into your last dig.
Why similar: Mining 39.2% ★, Underground 26.7% ★, Procedural Generation 11.2%, PvE 8.4%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #59 CryoFall
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Mechs 17.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, PvE 8.1%