- #1 MineMogul
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Automation 22.1%, Mining 21.8% ★, Underground 15.5% ★, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #2 BERGWERK - A Mining Sim
96% 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 26.7% ★, Underground 23.7% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Automation 11.5%, Building 8.3%
- #3 Makarov Physics Suite
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Makarov Studio
Windows
Ninety interactive 3D physics experiments, from a pendulum on a bench to Maxwell's equations on a 1024x1024 grid. Nothing is animated: every frame is solved from the equations while you turn the knobs. Live charts, instruments and numbers you can check.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 67.2% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Physics 8.6%, Building 4.4%, Simulation 4.1%
- #4 Flow Factory
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Mining 20% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.8%
- #5 Bouncekraft
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 7.5%
- #6 DropCell
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: PytraGames
Windows · Linux
DropCell is a cascade puzzle where gravity keeps pulling. Clear a line and everything above falls into the gaps, forming new lines that clear and chain into long combos. 10 realms, each with its own look and sound.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 81.4% ★, Space 9.4%, Physics 6.4%, 2D 2.9%
- #7 Deep Pockets
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Physics 9.3%
- #8 Factor Y
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 24.3% ★, Automation 22.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.8%
- #9 An Incremental Game About Placing Blocks
91% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: _Taralis
Windows
Click to place blocks, earn money, buy different block types, expand your boards and upgrade your skills. Watch reality break in this short, satisfying incremental game about placing blocks.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 63.4% ★, Automation 20.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 4.5%, Simulation 2.1%
- #10 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
91% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sticklen Games
Windows
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Mining 22.5% ★, Automation 18%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.6%, 2D Platformer 11.4%
- #11 Alembic
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EquiousPub: The Bueno Interactive
Windows
A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 62.9% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 9%, Simulation 5.7%, Physics 3.6%
- #12 Industronaut
89% 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: Automation 22.6%, Mining 22.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.8%
- #13 The 8 O'clock Block
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Robobana Games
Windows
A retro-inspired puzzle game featuring 11 unique game modes. Stack, match, chain, battle bosses, discover powerful items, and chase endless high scores across a variety of fast-paced block puzzle challenges.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 85.5% ★, 1980s 4.6%, Old School 3.2%, 2D 2.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.2%
- #14 Far Below
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Small Rock Studios
Windows · Linux
A calm, relaxing mining game about digging deeper and deeper below the surface. Gather ores, carve your own tunnels, and unwind as you descend into the quiet depths. Keep going until you're truly… Far Below.
Why similar: Underground 24.9% ★, Mining 20.6% ★, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Exploration 12.9%, Platformer 11.1%
- #15 Stellar Shipyard
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, Automation 19%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.8%
- #16 Tetra Block
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: GlowPulse Studio
Windows · Mac
A fast-paced 2D puzzle arcade game where falling blocks meet rising blocks. Clear lines, build combos, and chase your highest score.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 89.7% ★, Space 7.8%, 2D 2.5%
- #17 Off-World Prospecting
85% 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 31.3% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Space 13.8%, Underground 11.6% ★, Physics 10.5%
- #18 Mines of Volantis
87% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Spacefish Games
Windows
Dig for rare minerals, upgrade your harvester and unlock research to escape from planet Volantis.
Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Underground 19.3% ★, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Space 7.7%
- #19 Shady Contractor
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Highfivan
Windows
You're the least trustworthy contractor in town. Eyeball the blueprints, stack blocks, maximize your profits, and hope OSHA doesn't notice. A physics-based construction puzzler where "good enough" is a business strategy.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 75.8% ★, Building 10.1%, Physics 7.4%, Simulation 3.4%, 2D 2.1%
- #20 The Last Starship
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,688 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 23.4% ★, Automation 14.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.4%
- #21 Moko Water Rescue
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JinCycle
Windows
Stack falling blocks to build bridges and stairs, then guide the automatically walking explorer Moko to the exit before the water rises. Master bombs and spikes across nine handcrafted stages in this pixel-art action puzzle, playable with keyboard or gamepad.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 94.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 2.8%, Retro 2.7%
- #22 Mithril
83% 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 23.6% ★, Automation 19.9%, Underground 18.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.7%
- #23 DiDiDiG
81% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: ISIT Studio
Windows · Linux
Mine ore on the Moon, send it back to Earth to earn money, and buy Skill Cores to upgrade your abilities. Use a variety of helpful equipment on your expedition — and yes, there’s a dog! Uncover the secrets hidden beneath the lunar surface.
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Sandbox 14%, Space 12%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #24 Exovia
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Automation 18.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.8%
- #25 Pickel: The Mysterious Mine
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Creyd
Windows
A mysterious earthquake strikes, and the townspeople vanish without a trace. Become 'Pico' and venture deep into a dark underworld. Discover strange clues with every strike of your pickaxe. As you descend, a buried truth surfaces. What awaits at the bottom of the mine?
Why similar: Underground 27% ★, Mining 20.6% ★, 2D Platformer 20.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Platformer 11.9%
- #26 Cave Factory
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ted BendixsonPub: Send It Apps
Windows · Mac
A 2D side-view factory builder where every grain of dirt, every drop of water, and every wisp of steam in the world is its own simulated pixel.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Sandbox 17.7%, Underground 16.6% ★, Platformer 11%, Building 10%
- #27 Dignaut
79% 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 31.8% ★, Underground 28.3% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Exploration 9.6%, Physics 8%
- #28 Idlings
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Underground 22.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #29 DrpDrv
76% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: SquidBonesPub: Guilds Interactive
Windows · Mac
A frantic, sci-fi, arcade-puzzle game. Weld coloured blocks into squares to absorb energy and build collapsing cascades for massive boosts. Climb your way to 10M energy, discover your purpose among the stars and take your place on the leaderboard.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 82.7% ★, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 3.7%, 2D 3.2%
- #30 Roody:2d
78% matchPositive98% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: redinator2000
Windows
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Mining 17.8% ★, Underground 12.3% ★, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #31 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,534 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 31.7% ★, Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 10%, Base Building 7.7%
- #32 HyperTros
81% matchMixed54% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Betamaximus-128
Windows · Mac · Linux
HyperTros is the most radical shape sorting game ever, maybe.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 96.7% ★, Retro 2.1%, 2D 1.2%
- #33 FURKUP
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mayoaji
Windows
Stack it. Spell it. Shout it! FURKUP is a falling-block puzzle game where you arrange letters to spell FUCK and trigger massive chains. Record your own voice, battle solo or in CPU, local, and online multiplayer, and create, install, and share mods through Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 98.6% ★, 2D 1.4%
- #34 Hydroneer
77% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.3% ★, Automation 25.2%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 12.1%
- #35 Banana Game
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mainu Studio
Windows
Drop colorful fruit into a lively physics puzzle, merge matching pairs into bigger fruit, trigger special banana recipes, and keep the pile below the danger line. Chase a higher score and create the shining Golden Banana!
Why similar: Falling Blocks 91.8% ★, Physics 3.6%, 2D 3%, Pixel Graphics 1.7%
- #36 Buried Cargo
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Siar Games
Windows
Buried Cargo is a terminal-driven automation game. Wake up as a lone maintenance robot buried beneath a dead world. Use real command-line interface to control machines, extract scrap, and build your automation network.
Why similar: Mining 20.7% ★, Automation 20.6%, Underground 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #37 Moon Rocks and Slimes
74% 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 26.5% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Space 14.9%, Exploration 10.8%
- #38 Super-Spatial
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Interline Studios LC
Windows
Explore, build, and master the art of automation. Build your base, discover colorful new worlds, and develop new technologies as you tame the far reaches of space and search for a way to return to Earth.
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Space 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.3%
- #39 Star Crafter
73% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 26% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #40 Rafting Factory
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 10.8%, 2D Platformer 8%
- #41 Starground
72% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #42 Dvor
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Betonika
Windows · Mac
A falling-block puzzle game rooted in Soviet aesthetics. Lock concretes into a living facade as the seasons turn and the music shifts with them. Dvor means courtyard – the place where Soviet children played, where life happened. The version the falling blocks game always deserved.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 91.9% ★, Old School 4.8%, 2D 3.3%
- #43 4to7
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: tamanegi7
Windows
A casual, slower-paced block-falling puzzle. Quick reflexes or agility are never required. Your choices, your prepared plans, and unyielding fate are the only things that dictate the shape of this game.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 92.2% ★, Retro 4.3%, 2D 3.5%
- #44 EmptyEgg-Puzzle
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rimefu
Windows
Play three different puzzles in sequence and aim for a high score within a limited number of moves. Build your score through PathFinder, Match3, and Drop2048, then challenge players from around the world in weekly ranking battles. No time limit, so take your time and think carefully.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 79.8% ★, 2D Platformer 17.1%, 2D 3.1%
- #45 Miner: Dig Deep
73% 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 31% ★, Underground 24.8% ★, 2D Platformer 13%, Sandbox 9.7%, Platformer 8.5%
- #46 Fjellward
70% 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 31.2% ★, Automation 18%, Sandbox 16.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Physics 8.1%
- #47 Dyson Sphere Program
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Space 16.9%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #48 Myriad
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Batto
Windows
Myriad is a star themed 2D falling blocks puzzle roguelite game. Every other round, enter a shop and strengthen your build. Gaze the stars in the night sky and score incredibly powerful line clears or just plain destroy the board as you see fit. Watch out for the constellations though...
Why similar: Falling Blocks 90% ★, Space 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%, 2D 1.4%
- #49 Deep Mine
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luc Castelain
Windows · Mac
Explore with up to 4 players in a randomly generated world ! Mine, fight, craft and build in this 2D survival game ! You are free to do whatever you want, as long as you do not awaken the demon of the mountains...
Why similar: Mining 19.5% ★, Underground 17.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Building 10.2%
- #50 Handsy
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SIA Blinkovio
Windows · Mac
Your hands are the controller. Wave at your webcam, pinch to grab blocks, and stack a tower tall enough to carry the key to the lock. Solve physics puzzles across 100+ levels of wood, stone, glass, rope, and hope—solo or in online co-op, one hand each. Webcam required.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 59.9% ★, Physics 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 3.4%
- #51 Moon Miner
68% 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 33.2% ★, Underground 27.8% ★, Space 14.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Platformer 7.5%
- #52 Rockfall
69% 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 41% ★, Underground 23.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Exploration 10.5%, 2D Platformer 8.8%
- #53 Heng Rover Mission
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Roeun Technology
Windows · Mac
Build, launch, and survive. Design your own rover and automated robot workforce to conquer the harsh Martian climate, fulfill Mission Control directives, and uncover the secrets of the red planet in Heng Mar Mission.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Mining 20.6% ★, Building 16.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Exploration 10.8%
- #54 MORS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phiality
Windows
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Mining 16.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Space 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #55 TETRACHROMA
68% matchVery Positive100% of 196 reviews2024
Dev: sparsevector
Windows
TETRACHROMA is a block stacking puzzle action game with a new color changing mechanic inspired by Reversi. Manage the constantly changing colors of the board to clear 15+ lines with a single piece.
Why similar: Falling Blocks 88.8% ★, 1980s 3.8%, Retro 2.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.5%, 2D 2.1%
- #56 Infinite Space: Mining
67% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Taner Saydam
Windows
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Mining 24.6% ★, Space 15%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.7%
- #57 MORA Mining for freedom
67% 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 28.8% ★, Underground 20.8% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #58 AETHUS
64% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.6%
- #59 Cobalt Miner
65% matchMixed44% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 31% ★, Automation 25.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Exploration 6.4%
- #60 Infinity Islets
66% 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 24.4% ★, Underground 22.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.8%