60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Base Building, Management.
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Malignus
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
CitaDrill
Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Underground 13% ★, Mining 12.1% ★, Management 5.9%
Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.7%, Underground 19.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Management 6.3%
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Mining 23.4% ★, Underground 18.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9%
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Mining 21.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Management 8.4%, Underground 6.5% ★
Command a squad of hard-working dudes, tunnel through different biomes and layers, collect rare ores and gemstones, equip powerful pickaxes, and descend into the depths!
Why similar: Mining 43.7% ★, Underground 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Management 11.8%, Exploration 3.6%
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Underground 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 7.3%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Mining 21.7% ★, Underground 21.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Management 8.5%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 20.9%, Management 11.4%, Exploration 7%, Top-Down 4.9%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Mining 32.3% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Exploration 5%, Resource Management 4.2%
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Underground 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Exploration 3.8%
Become an underpaid, overworked middle-manager for the callous mine boss Glorgo. Amass a hoard of wealth, navigate the vast eerie alien mines, and encounter voracious plastic beasts in a colorful, Y2K-themed dystopia filled with mayhem, microplastics, and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Mining 32.1% ★, Underground 27.6% ★, Resource Management 4.7%, 2D 1.4%
"Miner's Nook" is a strategic idle game blending probability management. Start by clicking, then recruit miners to automate. Use the unique "Destiny Panel" to adjust event odds. Don't leave it to fate—control your luck and build your mining empire.
Why similar: Underground 46.9% ★, Mining 44.2% ★, Strategy 3.5%, Simulation 2.9%, 2D 1.8%
Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.
Why similar: Underground 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Management 7.8%
A sci-fi mining and base-building game where efficient mining is the key to survival. Gather crystals, expand your colony, upgrade your defenses, and withstand increasingly dangerous nightly attacks.
Why similar: Mining 46.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 5.9%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Mining 23.5% ★, Base Building 16%, Management 9.7%, Top-Down 4.4%
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Mining 27.6% ★, Underground 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 7.4%
Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Mining 23.8% ★, Underground 16.7% ★, Management 7%, Exploration 5.4%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 21%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 5.2%, Exploration 4.7%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Underground 11.6% ★, Exploration 6.1%, Simulation 4.5%
Endless Digging is a 2D pixel-art incremental game focused on exploration, resource collection, and upgrades. You will venture deep underground and explore different mines, each with its own unique style. Collect various resources and discover more than 10 types of ores.
Why similar: Underground 45.4% ★, Mining 33.4% ★, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 4.2%, 2D 2.7%
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Mining 26.5% ★, Underground 21.9% ★, Management 8.1%, Top-Down 5.9%
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Underground 23.4% ★, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 8.5%
Beldamos Miner is a mining game, where you hunt for ore, buy upgrades, and explore. It starts out in a simple world that has an air of familiarity but as you progress in the game, you'll find a more complex and interesting world unfolds. Mine ore, learn spells, buy upgrades, and finish quests!
Why similar: Mining 48.1% ★, Underground 40.9% ★, Exploration 8.3%, 2D 2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Mining 33% ★, Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.2%, Strategy 5%
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Mining 24.1% ★, Underground 22% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Management 7.7%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Base Building 26%, Management 12.4%, Exploration 6.5%, Strategy 6.1%
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 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 16.4%, Management 7.1%, Top-Down 6.1%
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: Colony Sim 36%, Underground 28.5% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Exploration 7.4%, Simulation 3.2%
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Underground 23.3% ★, Mining 16.1% ★, Exploration 7%, Simulation 5.6%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Base Building 22.3%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 5.2%, Exploration 5%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 30.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Management 9%, Strategy 4.8%
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 49.9% ★, Underground 29.2% ★, Exploration 8.4%, Resource Management 5.5%, Fantasy 2.7%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.8%, Base Building 26.4%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 5.2%, Strategy 2.8%
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 20%, Mining 14.6% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Exploration 5.1%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Mining 28% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Management 9.3%, Exploration 4%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.4%, Base Building 25%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.6%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Mining 23.5% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 4.3%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Mining 20.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Management 10.7%, Top-Down 6.6%
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Mining 19.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Management 6.7%, Exploration 5.1%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 5.2%, Resource Management 4.1%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Management 14.2%, Exploration 6.8%, Strategy 5.2%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6%, Base Building 25.1%, Management 8.7%, Strategy 3.9%, Exploration 3.7%
Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!
Why similar: Mining 40.2% ★, Underground 30.8% ★, Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Exploration 4.8%
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 34.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 5.2%, Top-Down 4.9%
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Underground 20% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 6.6%
Descend into the depths of a perilous underground world with your mining tank! Mine rare ores, evade deadly traps, and upgrade your tank to withstand the dangers below in this action-packed mining adventure.
Why similar: Mining 45.2% ★, Underground 38.8% ★, Exploration 8%, Top-Down 3.8%, Simulation 3.8%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Base Building 22.5%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 5.5%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.7%, Base Building 24.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Top-Down 5.4%
Grow an ant colony from a single queen into a thriving empire. Raid rival anthills, steal their brood, and strengthen your colony with captured ants. Defend your territory from giant insects and expand your nest. When the time comes, release a swarm of winged queens and begin again in distant lands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, Underground 34.2% ★, Management 6.6%, Top-Down 5%, Strategy 4.6%
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 53.4% ★, Underground 43.6% ★, 2D 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A mining simulator where you dig deeper and deeper to find the rarest gems and ores to sell, upgrading your gear while meeting the company's increasing weekly profit quota.
Why similar: Underground 60.2% ★, Mining 17% ★, Top-Down 7.9%, Simulation 5.3%, PvE 3.8%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 6.3%
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Mining 43.2% ★, Colony Sim 31.5%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 4.5%, Resource Management 3.8%
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 45.5% ★, Underground 34.6% ★, Exploration 7.9%, Strategy 5.2%, Resource Management 2.8%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Mining 25.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 8.6%, Exploration 5.8%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6%
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 42.2% ★, Underground 38.3% ★, Base Building 10%, Simulation 7.7%, Resource Management 1.6%
Drill into the depths of a meteor crater in this incremental adventure. Mine ores, unlock upgrades and find the cosmic treasure that lies below! Can you uncover what happened to the Moles that came before you?
Why similar: Mining 39.1% ★, Underground 30.3% ★, Management 12.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Strategy 4.9%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.9%, Base Building 23.2%, Management 6.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 4.3%
