
Bore deep below the earth's surface in your all-terrain mining vehicle. Drill for ores, scan for artifacts, and explore an expansive subnautical cavern system.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Adventure, Singleplayer, Indie.

Bore deep below the earth's surface in your all-terrain mining vehicle. Drill for ores, scan for artifacts, and explore an expansive subnautical cavern system.

TankOre Mining
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.

Veridian Expanse
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
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 41.5% ★, Underground 16.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Tanks 8.3% ★, Exploration 8%
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Metroidvania 23.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16.9%, Exploration 7.6%, Top-Down 6.6%
ABYSSAL is a deep-sea survival horror game about fixing underwater structures, securing biohazards, performing maintenance, and more.
Why similar: Mining 29.6% ★, Submarine 26% ★, Underwater 11.6% ★, Survival 10%, Horror 6.4%
New Haven is a utopia under a red moon, turned into a dystopian nightmare. You are a prisoner with no name, waking up in the middle of an emergency. Fight for survival guided by an enigmatic voice in your head, explore a falling world, solve puzzles, and unravel dark secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Top-Down Shooter 19.6%, Survival 14.2%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Top-Down 7.3%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Submarine 33.8% ★, Underwater 15.3% ★, Horror 12.8%, Abstract 11.6%, Minimalist 9.3%
Submeris is an underwater mining adventure set beneath a mysterious island. Dig, upgrade your gear, survive dangerous depths, and uncover the legendary treasure hidden far below the ocean floor!
Why similar: Mining 30.8% ★, Submarine 28.7% ★, Underwater 13.2% ★, Horror 7.3%, Exploration 6.4%
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Minimalist 13.1%, Abstract 8.3%, Top-Down 8.1%
Explore and navigate an underwater cave in your submarine.
Why similar: Submarine 36.3% ★, Underwater 15.9% ★, Abstract 13.3%, Horror 12.7%, Minimalist 9.7%
Sunken Veins is a resource management horror game set in a deep sea mining facility. You collect resources deposited by an underwater drill, avoid adaptive monsters and drain away overwhelming floods of water caused from mining operations.
Why similar: Mining 31.7% ★, Submarine 29.4% ★, Underwater 13.9% ★, Survival 10.5%, Horror 8.2%
Restore color to a vast, empty world. An abstract puzzle metroidvania game focused on exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.8%, Abstract 25.1%, Minimalist 14.5%, Exploration 11.1%, 2D 3.1%
Explore a world of secrets and opposition at every turn, and smash through it in fast-paced top-down combat! This game is a short 2–3 hour experience that aims for high quality of life, worldbuilding, and gameplay without demanding weeks of your time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37%, Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Exploration 13%, Top-Down 8.2%, 2D 4.7%
A short horror game where you pilot a submarine to collect samples on the crushing depths of the ocean.
Why similar: Abstract 27.1%, Simulation 16.7%, Submarine 15% ★, Adventure 10.4%, Horror 9.3%
Tunnels is a single-player mining metroidvania adventure. Delve the alien depths, upgrade your tank, master deep itemization, and uncover the mysteries below.
Why similar: Mining 47.6% ★, Metroidvania 29.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Sci-fi 6.5%, 2D 3.7%
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 48.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Underground 12.9% ★, Exploration 8.9%, Simulation 5.1%
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 57.1% ★, Underground 22.7% ★, Exploration 10.9%, 2D 4.9%, Adventure 4.4%
Sunken Seeker is a short, first-person underwater horror experience. Forced to pilot a decaying submersible, you have 7 days to pay off a massive debt. Navigate pitch-black waters, scan for salvage beyond your headlights, and survive the shift before the Director cuts your life support.
Why similar: Submarine 43.1% ★, Underwater 21.3% ★, Exploration 11.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Horror 9.3%
Hop into a ship and escape! With the help of an aquatic ally, you pilot an underwater vessel in an attempt to escape the clutches of the Sea Intelligence Bureau.
Why similar: Submarine 27.9% ★, Metroidvania 21.9%, Underwater 12% ★, Minimalist 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
Mining Shift is an incremental game about mining minerals and upgrading your skills to master the elemental mines.
Why similar: Mining 65.5% ★, Top-Down 11.4%, Underground 8.9% ★, Simulation 8%, 2D 6.2%
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Why similar: Mining 47.1% ★, Metroidvania 37.9%, Adventure 6.4%, Exploration 4.3%, 2D 4.3%
Follow the Void Guardian as she inspects a space station after receiving a distress beacon from it and help her vanquish the hidden evil.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Top-Down 10.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Dig deep and fight for survival— solo or with up to six friends! Drill pixel by pixel to gather materials, power up your gear, and meet your extraction quota — or unleash mysterious artifacts to wipe out the competition!
Why similar: Mining 40.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.8%, Underground 14.5% ★, Minimalist 8.9%, Top-Down 6.4%
Nightmare Pick is a simple mining combat game where you upgrade your equipment with ores to defeat monsters blocking your path and find a way to escape the nightmare.
Why similar: Mining 58.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Top-Down 11.3%, 2D 5.6%, Exploration 4.3%
Navigate an open-world ocean in a rusted submarine with monstrous creatures lurking in the depths. Collect artifacts, upgrade your submarine and descend into even deeper waters. If you didn’t fear the deep sea before, now you will.
Why similar: Submarine 37.7% ★, Underwater 21.5% ★, Survival 12.9%, Horror 12.7%, Exploration 7.7%
Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!
Why similar: Mining 36.9% ★, Submarine 25.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Exploration 6.6%, Sci-fi 6.5%
"DRILLING" is a relaxing game focusing on the pure joy of digging and moving forward. You play as "Mr. Drill," who has awakened deep underground, and begin an expedition toward the surface. Mine 9 kind of ores found across various layers, and use the resources you gather to upgrade your modules.
Why similar: Mining 54.6% ★, Simulation 19%, Adventure 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 3.8%
An intense VR adventure where you crawl through twisting caves, face unseen terrors, evade creatures, mine for relics, and upgrade your gear as you descend deeper into the hole.
Why similar: Mining 44.5% ★, Horror 13.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, Exploration 9.7%
A top down single player PVE survival game. Survive, hunt and thrive in The Hunter's Path. Navigate through the terrain, stalk your prey, and craft your needed supplies and base materials.
Why similar: Mining 37% ★, Top-Down Shooter 15.4%, Survival 14.5%, Top-Down 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%
A pixel-style mining game with easy AFK gameplay and continuous progression!
Why similar: Mining 64.5% ★, Underground 17.2% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, 2D 6.2%
A fairytale-like atmospheric game about a little foal lost in a dark forest. Find food, hide from the night, meet strange creatures, and slowly grow up - leaving hoofprints along your journey.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Abstract 21.1%, Minimalist 12.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 10%
SAMA is a hand painted, digging and puzzle adventure where you take the role of a mining ship and the little Alien blob crew hijacked by a pirate ship. Your Aliens have to dig, fight and puzzle their way through the subterranean worlds fulfilling the ransom demand. Can you do it?
Why similar: Mining 38.9% ★, Metroidvania 27.2%, Survival 11.5%, Exploration 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
A game of immense adventure and fun excavation potential.
Why similar: Mining 70.3% ★, Adventure 17.4%, Exploration 12.2%
A mysterious signal. A missing crew. And the one man trying to piece it all together. As Abe Douglas, dive deep into a fully underwater metroidvania to explore massive oceanic biomes, battle monstrous bosses, and piece together a mystery that threatens not only your crew, but your own sanity.
Why similar: Submarine 34.3% ★, Metroidvania 28.1%, Underwater 17% ★, Exploration 8%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.
Why similar: Mining 50.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Minimalist 11.8%, Simulation 8%, Sci-fi 6.2%
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Mining 32.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.1%, Survival 13.3%, Exploration 7.9%, Top-Down 7.9%
A short exploration game, set in a secluded coastal village in North East Scotland. Explore Kellas Bay and it's surrounding forests, caves and ocean to uncover what lies beneath the fog-covered village.
Why similar: Submarine 27.9% ★, Alternate History 16.1%, Underground 13.4% ★, Abstract 12.9%, Underwater 12.1% ★
A first Person Lovecraftian Survival Horror game. Explore uncharted subterranean territory, document your findings and survive the horrors that you uncover.
Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, Underwater 14.3% ★, Alternate History 13.8%, Survival 13.5%
ASCII incremental game about digging through a mine and fighting massive hordes of enemies. Upgrade your gear, level up random skills, and dig all the way to the very end.
Why similar: Mining 50.8% ★, Underground 14.9% ★, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 7%, Minimalist 5.7%
Control a submarine or a diver into the depths of unknown underwater worlds and take photographs of alien animals, plants and artefacts. Continue your journey through this casual, side-scroller, exploration game and collect stars to unlock more secrets before travelling to an alien home planet.
Why similar: Submarine 39.5% ★, Underwater 14.6% ★, Minimalist 10.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%
"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: Mining 58.9% ★, Underground 29.2% ★, Simulation 6.8%, 2D 5.1%
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 56.8% ★, Underground 20.8% ★, Exploration 10%, Adventure 6%, Pixel Graphics 4%
Blast rocks, drill tunnels and force your way through every mountain. At the beginning you have enough time and no major problems. Once the TNT charges are placed you can start the blasting to create the tunnel entrance. The excavated material will be loaded by a shovel dozer on a dump truck and transported to the storage site.
Why similar: Mining 68.4% ★, Simulation 31.6%
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 49.9% ★, Underground 21.2% ★, Exploration 10.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Simulation 5.4%
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 33.3% ★, Mining 20.1% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Top-Down 10%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Stuck at the bottom of the sea floor, escape a sunken ocean liner in this handcrafted 2D METROIDvania! Find powerful upgrades, and fight strange bosses. You may be isolated from your shipmates, but you're not alone...
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.9%, Underwater 16.2% ★, Exploration 15%, Horror 11.1%, Adventure 5.2%
Mine until your arms drop off! In Prison Miner you will rank up through various ranks discovering new mines and materials along the way to be able to upgrade your equipment and mine even faster. Until eventually, you do it all again!
Why similar: Mining 58.4% ★, Exploration 13.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Top-Down 8.4%, 2D 4.9%
Stranded in a frozen wasteland, your only hope lies beneath the ice. Craft essential gadgets, upgrade your pickaxe with powerful abilities, and navigate a trap-filled ancient cavern. Can you solve the mysteries of the deep and unearth the legendary Miner's Stone?
Why similar: Mining 64.3% ★, Survival 16.1%, Exploration 11.7%, Adventure 8%
Pilot your submarine to activate and reestablish a network of beacons while carefully utilizing your sonar to navigate the low-visibility depths of the ocean.
Why similar: Submarine 35.6% ★, Underwater 16.5% ★, Minimalist 12%, Horror 10%, Exploration 8%
An enthralling adventure where a team of intrepid explorers ventures into the enigmatic depths of the lost city of Atlantis. As they delve deeper into the submerged ruins, they encounter a chilling revelation: the once-glorious city is now teeming with malevolent forces and unspeakable horrors.
Why similar: Submarine 32.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 22.9%, Underwater 16.8% ★, Top-Down 9.4%, Horror 8.9%
Relaxing mining experience that merges combat elements and 1-bit pixel art aesthetics. Collect minerals from procedurally generated asteroids, improve your ship and survive The Anomaly, an unknown entity threatening The Galaxy. Can a simple miner stop The Anomaly and save everyone?
Why similar: Mining 54.5% ★, Minimalist 16.2%, Exploration 8.5%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
Mine, fight monsters, upgrade your gear, obtain rare items, unlock new powers and mine some more in the massive follow-up to the popular title "Haste-Miner 2". Eternamine offers a casual yet engaging gameplay experience, expand your mining empire and discover the secrets that lie beneath the earth.
Why similar: Mining 55.1% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Exploration 8.2%, Top-Down 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
Get your gears in motion for a captivating monochromatic adventure where you play as Lelu, a small but determined clockwork toy who has gained consciousness and found a taste for freedom!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Minimalist 13.1%, Exploration 12.3%, Top-Down 10.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Doug The Digger is a casual, single-player mining and crafting game where you aim to escape a crash landing by crafting a rocket. The gameplay is simple but addictive—play at your own risk!
Why similar: Mining 54.1% ★, Survival 20.4%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 5.9%, Simulation 4.8%
CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.
Why similar: Submarine 37.5% ★, Underwater 20.8% ★, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 9.2%
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 51.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Simulation 6.1%
You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
Why similar: Mining 49.5% ★, Underground 13.8% ★, Abstract 12.3%, Minimalist 9.4%, Simulation 7.6%
Educe is a 2D pixel art "Metroidbrainia" puzzle game where the world is your blueprint. Physically rearrange the screens of a forgotten laboratory to navigate a sprawling, non-linear maze. With no combat and a focus on logic, you must shift the environment itself to educe the path forward.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.4%, Exploration 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Adventure 11%
Working as a Search & Rescue officer, you must keep yourself sane and log objects you find in the woods, all while facing off against twisted creatures. With a flashlight as your only pair of eyes, you have until 6AM to find your subjects. Good luck, and remember, DO NOT GO NEAR THE STAIRS.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Horror 16.4%, Abstract 16.1%, Exploration 15%, Top-Down 9.1%
Build your own Spaceship, Mine, Trade, Craft, Explore & Survive! Leaks in Space is a 2D space-sim sandbox where you pilot a pressurized ship. Battle and destroy pirate ships piece by piece, while managing your own ship's integrity and fatal leaks.
Why similar: Mining 37.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, Survival 12.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Top-Down 7.2%
AQUABYSS is a unique steampunk open underwater world inspired by the works of Jules Verne & Herbert G. Wells. In story-driven adventure (optional), you will explore, trade, mine and harvest resources, take missions and encounter pirates, krakens and NPCs.
Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Submarine 27.4% ★, Alternate History 16.6%, Underwater 13.6% ★, Exploration 6.1%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Submarine 39.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Underwater 15.7% ★, Horror 10.8%, Sci-fi 6.3%