Games Like The Spotter: Dig or Die

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 20.7%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the spiritual predecessor that perfectly mirrors the core loop of mining for resources by day and defending against waves of enemies by night.

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.5%, Tower Defense 36%, Exploration 10.6%, Adventure 5.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a tight, addictive gameplay loop of mining for upgrades in a cavernous environment followed by intense tower defense combat.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Sandbox 22.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 15.8%, Exploration 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines fully destructible voxel environments with frantic tower defense mechanics against subterranean threats.

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.4%, Base Building 21.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Aliens 13.9%, Exploration 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite that focuses on the management of a mining drill while simultaneously building defenses to survive incoming waves.

Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.

Why similar: Mining 19.9% ★, Tower Defense 19.1%, Zombies 16.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the strategic placement of traps and barricades to protect your base from persistent zombie hordes while you mine for resources.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Voxel 20.5% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 13.4%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival game that forces players to scavenge and build fortified bases to survive the weekly horde night.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, Zombies 19.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep focus on base building and trap engineering to survive massive waves of zombies in an open-world setting.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 20.7%, Survival 19.7%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An underground sandbox survival game that emphasizes mining, crafting, and base building while exploring a mysterious subterranean world.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Base Building 19%, Survival 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Underground 15.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you must manage a base and defend it against waves of mutants in a post-apocalyptic subway system.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Voxel 19.2% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Mining 13.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale mining and automation game that requires heavy investment in defensive turrets to protect your infrastructure.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 35.2%, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 23.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D mining and exploration game that features significant base building and boss defense mechanics.

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 40.2% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox mining simulation that focuses on the mechanics of excavating and processing resources to build your base.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Crafting 31.5%, Sandbox 30.7%, Survival 19.6%, Tower Defense 10%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks you with managing a group of dwarves as they mine, build, and defend their fortress against nightly monster attacks.

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Mining 30.6% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused tower defense game that requires careful resource management and base positioning.

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?

Why similar: Voxel 22% ★, Underground 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that involves digging and building to survive in a post-apocalyptic underground setting.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 37%, Crafting 23.7%, Survival 23.1%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast universe to explore, mine, and build in, with survival mechanics and combat against hostile creatures.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 32%, Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on simulation, it provides the most realistic experience of scavenging and fortifying a base against a zombie apocalypse.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends automation and tower defense, requiring you to build production lines while defending your core.

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, Zombies 21.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on survival where you build and upgrade a mobile base to defend against zombie waves.

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on scavenging scrap to build defenses and survive.

Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!

Why similar: Voxel 24.4% ★, Zombies 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes scavenging and building defenses against the undead.

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: Base Building 36.4%, Sandbox 23.3%, Crafting 21%, Survival 13.9%, Simulation 4%

Why You'll Like It: While automation-heavy, the constant need to defend your sprawling factory from alien attacks provides a similar tension to tower defense games.

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 45.8% ★, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Exploration 8.5%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management game that centers on mining operations and base expansion in a hostile environment.

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 31.3% ★, Underground 21.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An automation and building game that focuses on the physics of mining and resource extraction.

Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!

Why similar: Voxel 34.5% ★, Mining 30.4% ★, Crafting 7.3%, Mystery 4.8%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A mining-focused adventure game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.5%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 16.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game focused on building and defending a kingdom against nightly waves of greed-driven enemies.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Crafting 21.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Zombies 8.4%, First-Person 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game forces you to build defensive structures to protect yourself from cannibalistic mutants after a plane crash.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Voxel 33.5% ★, Zombies 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A zombie survival game with a focus on crafting, building, and defending your home base.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.5%, Survival 28.3%, Base Building 26.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic management game where you must scavenge for supplies and upgrade your underground bunker to survive.

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 19.5% ★, Voxel 18.4% ★, Underground 15.8% ★, Economy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 33.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that adds zombie threats to a harsh, cold environment, requiring constant base maintenance.

Dig for resources, upgrade your gear and defend your gate against relentless zombie hordes as you uncover the mystery hidden beneath the world. Play solo or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Voxel 23.9% ★, Zombies 10.9%, Survival 9.6%, Tower Defense 9.3%

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 24.8% ★, Voxel 22.6% ★, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Economy 18.4%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%

You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain. Manage your oxygen and equipment, and uncover the dark mystery buried deep within the mine.

Why similar: Voxel 23.3% ★, Mining 18.2% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Underground 10.3% ★, Exploration 6.9%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Zombies 25.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 16.7%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Zombies 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Base Building 14.5%, First-Person 9.3%, Simulation 9.3%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 13.9%

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 30.8% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 8.7%, First-Person 6.7%

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 44.5% ★, Crafting 18.7%, First-Person 9.1%, Exploration 8.8%, Simulation 7.7%

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 27.1% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 6.6%, Crafting 6%

Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Voxel 24.2% ★, Tower Defense 17.4%, Zombies 16.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.2%

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Mining 47.2% ★, Tower Defense 26.3%, Aliens 17.5%, Exploration 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Underground 23.1% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Economy 10.2%

A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

Why similar: Mining 29.1% ★, Tower Defense 20.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Adventure 3.3%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 13%, Exploration 8.3%

Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!

Why similar: Mining 44.2% ★, Tower Defense 31.1%, Underground 23.6% ★, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 33.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12.7%

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Zombies 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 12.6%

Experience the first four days of the Prologue, where FPS action meets quarantine inspection in post-apocalyptic Chicago. You’ve got 30 days until the army arrives. Hold out, fix your car, and fight your way to the main checkpoint to save your younger brother.

Why similar: Zombies 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 27%, Tower Defense 17%, First-Person 8.3%, Exploration 6%

Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?

Why similar: Mining 48.5% ★, Tower Defense 35.9%, Exploration 8.6%, 3D 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 27.9%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Mining 42.6% ★, Underground 31.2% ★, Economy 19.8%, Simulation 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

In iDigging, you’ll balance treasure hunting, home improvement, and the strategy of hiding from curious neighbors and authorities. Upgrade, dig, and create your best life despite all the challenges!

Why similar: Underground 46.9% ★, Base Building 22.8%, First-Person 10.3%, Simulation 6.9%, 3D 5.9%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 19%, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 15%, Crafting 14.7%

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

Why similar: Underground 44.1% ★, Simulation 15.1%, First-Person 11.3%, Exploration 10.5%, 3D 7.5%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 15.7%

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 39.7% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 16%, Base Building 15.2%