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60+ underground games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Exploration, Adventure, Simulation.

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  1. #1 The Exit 8
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 11,170 reviews2023
    Developer: KOTAKE CREATEPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 1.8h≥1hr: 58%

    You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

  2. #2 THE LONGING
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 7,380 reviews2020
    Developer: Studio SeufzPublisher: Application Systems Heidelberg
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 10.6hMean: 37.8h≥1hr: 84%

    An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

  3. #3 Paradise Lost
    98% matchMixed64% of 2,503 reviews2021
    Developer: PolyAmorousPublisher: Walkabout
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 68%

    It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

  4. #4 Mr. Prepper
    97% matchVery Positive80% of 5,400 reviews2021
    Developer: Rejected GamesPublisher: PlayWay S.A.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 12.0h≥1hr: 81%

    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.

  5. #5 Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out
    97% matchVery Positive85% of 3,360 reviews2025
    Developer: Digital MelodyPublisher: PlayWay S.A.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.0hMean: 6.9h≥1hr: 88%

    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?

  6. #6 Never Return
    97% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,635 reviews2021
    Developer: YeMuNetWorkPublisher: Cyberisle
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.8hMean: 20.0h≥1hr: 74%

    "Never Return" is a 3D action adventure game with roguelike elements. There are various weapon types to choose from. Each Type has its own play style. With thousands of creative prefixes and a huge amount of skills, every player can easily create their own build.

  7. #7 HAAK
    97% matchVery Positive90% of 3,432 reviews2022
    Developer: BlingamePublisher: OKJOY
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.2hMean: 12.3h≥1hr: 85%

    HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.

  8. #8 Mining Mechs
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 2,688 reviews2023
    Developer: Delayed Victory
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 8.7h≥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!

  9. #9 KeeperRL
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 1,793 reviews2024
    Developer: Electric Succubi
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.3hMean: 19.5h≥1hr: 78%

    KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

  10. #10 Meltopia
    93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,387 reviews2026
    Developer: Garden of Dreams
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 89%

    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.

  11. #11 Dungeon 100
    92% matchVery Positive82% of 1,629 reviews2023
    Developer: 可布和常常诶
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 82%

    The dragon-slayer becomes the dragon. Create unique builds without having to grind for equipment. After defeating a dungeon boss, you will take its place. Then, defeat your past selves to descend further into the dungeon.

  12. #12 The Spotter: Dig or Die
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,712 reviews2026
    Developer: Puppyroar GamesPublisher: Forklift Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.9hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 93%

    Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

  13. #13 KEEP LOOKING
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 160 reviews2024
    Developer: Solshade Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    This is a nerve-wracking horror game that puts you in a dark, claustrophobic cave with a relentless creature. Survive by flashing your dying flashlight at the right moments, too soon or too late, and it’s over. You must keep an eye on the creature, but beware: staring too long is just as deadly.

  14. #14 Hashiriya Drifter-Online Drift Racing Multiplayer (DRIFT/DRAG/RACING)
    91% matchMixed68% of 1,479 reviews2020
    Developer: Midnight Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 35%

    Drift Online Multiplayer Game - The game inspired by oldschool street drifting in early japan with deep custiomization and ability to build a car from scratch! Dismountable chassis and suspension! Realistic car damage! Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!

  15. #15 Arx Fatalis
    90% matchVery Positive88% of 2,577 reviews2007
    Developer: Arkane StudiosPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 10.0h≥1hr: 41%

    This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.

  16. #16 iDigging
    89% matchMixed69% of 800 reviews2025
    Developer: TWEN
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 3.3h≥1hr: 78%

    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!

  17. #17 Coal LLC
    87% matchVery Positive93% of 1,212 reviews2025
    Developer: Bye Bye Ocean
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 9.5hMean: 19.2h≥1hr: 90%

    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.

  18. #18 SubwaySim 2
    87% matchVery Positive81% of 827 reviews2025
    Developer: Simuverse InteractivePublisher: Aerosoft GmbH
    Platforms: Windows

    Explore the three most picturesque underground lines in Germany! The Berlin U1/U3 and the Hamburg U3 are waiting for you. Immerse yourself in everyday life in the two German metropolises and discover famous sights such as Hamburg's harbour or Berlin's Oberbaum Bridge.

  19. #19 Towards Future
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 766 reviews2022
    Developer: 拾伍司工坊Publisher: Eternal Dream
    Platforms: Windows

    Waking up in the darkness, unable to see the sunrise, he remembered the little master carefully carried him home. The base has already fallen into ruin and there are no signs of any living people here. Where did the little master go? Is there any hope left under the doomsday?

  20. #20 Tunnet
    86% matchVery Positive94% of 715 reviews2023
    Developer: puzzled_squid
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.1hMean: 8.1h≥1hr: 72%

    Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

  21. #21 Spark in the Dark
    86% matchVery Positive88% of 1,101 reviews2026
    Developer: Stellar Fish
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    The hardcore dark fantasy Dungeon Crawler where you will go to the endless depths of a mysterious grim Dungeon.

  22. #22 DigDigDrill
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 606 reviews2024
    Developer: Toorai
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.1hMean: 17.5h≥1hr: 83%

    DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.

  23. #23 Ad Fundum
    85% matchVery Positive92% of 516 reviews2024
    Developer: Oldbut Gold
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 6.6h≥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?

  24. #24 Super Mining Mechs
    83% matchVery Positive88% of 843 reviews2024
    Developer: Delayed Victory
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.1hMean: 10.0h≥1hr: 85%

    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!

  25. #25 Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 780 reviews2015
    Developer: Yai Gameworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 10.9h≥1hr: 48%

    A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

  26. #26 Back in Service: a Metro Driver
    83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 547 reviews2025
    Developer: Dominik Vojta
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Join the adventure and become the master of the metro in our game, which takes you into the underground world. Overcome challenges on the tracks from the cabin of a historic train. Can you complete the route, transport all passengers, and avoid delays?

  27. #27 Ayahuasca
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 400 reviews2020
    Developer: Small Studio by Mac GuffPublisher: Astrea
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 2.5h≥1hr: 25%

    In the jungle at night, a journey awaits for you... are you ready to embrace the experience? Ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, and how to find your inner space.

  28. #28 The Hive
    81% matchMostly Positive72% of 427 reviews2016
    Developer: Skydome Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 90%

    The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

  29. #29 Air Defender
    80% matchMostly Positive79% of 338 reviews2025
    Developer: ROTOR3
    Platforms: Windows

    Command the sky in a tense real-time strategy simulation where you manage a nation's air defenses. Analyze radar contacts, scramble interceptor jets, and make split-second decisions to protect your airspace from hostile threats.

  30. #30 STATIONflow
    80% matchVery Positive86% of 502 reviews2020
    Developer: DMM GAMES
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

  31. #31 The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
    80% matchMostly Positive78% of 623 reviews2020
    Developer: Tomas SalaPublisher: Wired Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 5.2h≥1hr: 83%

    Take flight in this remastered 'stick control era' aerial combat RPG. Explore haunting landscapes, engage in epic dogfights, and uncover ancient secrets in a visually enhanced, rebalanced edition of the BAFTA-nominated, award-winning original.

  32. #32 Bloodhound: First day in hell
    79% matchMostly Positive80% of 422 reviews2023
    Developer: Kruger & Flint Productions
    Platforms: Windows

    Crush the cult of Astaroth and vanquish her hellspawn, make them squeal and hide where they came from. Enjoy a Fresh Look & Old Fun in this arcade horror FPS game inspired by the legends of the 90s.

  33. #33 Brno Transit
    78% matchVery Positive85% of 501 reviews2026
    Developer: Spytihněv
    Platforms: Windows

    A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.

  34. #34 Rodland of Pipes
    78% matchVery Positive99% of 277 reviews2024
    Developer: Justin Jones
    Platforms: Windows

    Crawl through pipes, navigate the maze, listen carefully and get out before Rodland finds you.

  35. #35 Chipmatic
    77% matchMixed66% of 167 reviews2026
    Developer: Molter
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!

  36. #36 Super Motherload
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 944 reviews2014
    Developer: XGen Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 5.4h≥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.

  37. #37 Deep Corp
    76% matchVery Positive92% of 262 reviews2026
    Developer: KishMish Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    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!

  38. #38 Dwelvers
    77% matchMixed68% of 319 reviews2023
    Developer: Rasmus LjunggrenPublisher: Dancing Devils
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 42%

    Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.

  39. #39 ShadowBringer
    76% matchVery Positive83% of 208 reviews2022
    Developer: Marshmallow HammerPublisher: DigiPen Institute of Technology
    Platforms: Windows

    Escape the underground research facility and discover the truth of your origin. ShadowBringer is a 3D stealth game where you take on the role of a shadowy monster. Awakened with no recollection of the past, a voice in your head whispers softly to you: "Get out of this place".

  40. #40 IT Simulator
    76% matchVery Positive91% of 172 reviews2022
    Developer: Bad Byte Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    IT Simulator is a co-op horror game where two players attempt to return power to an office building. Take the role of the all-seeing Control Room or the stealthy Repair Technician as you risk everything to d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶t̶h̶ escape.

  41. #41 頭痛
    76% matchMostly Positive74% of 208 reviews2021
    Developer: MONZEN
    Platforms: Windows

    頭痛【資料館編】 行方不明者を探しに資料館へ... 廃墟の資料館に隠された謎を解く一人称視点の探索系ホラーゲームです。

  42. #42 Below the Stone
    75% matchVery Positive85% of 437 reviews2023
    Developer: StrollartPublisher: Apogee Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.6hMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 56%

    Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.

  43. #43 The DeadLine
    74% matchVery Positive95% of 313 reviews2025
    Developer: ROTTEN APPLEPublisher: Jungle Game Lab
    Platforms: Windows

    The last subway departs in a world overrun by zombies. At each station, gather materials, find better weapons, and fight off the undead. As you get closer to your family, the danger grows. Survive, upgrade, and make it to the final stop.

  44. #44 Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue
    75% matchMixed67% of 332 reviews2022
    Developer: Weasel Games
    Platforms: Windows

    Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue is some part of the full version of the game. The gameplay starts in the realities of World War II, the Soviets and Allies are coming. Your task in the game is to keep enemy troops as far away from your base as possible. Fight and survive!

  45. #45 Golazo! 2
    74% matchMostly Positive75% of 146 reviews2022
    Developer: Purple Tree S R L
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 33%

    Dynamic arcade football game with medium-sized fields, no fouls, and offsides whistled. Add street gameplay to this mix to have just pure fun & action!

  46. #46 Mining Merchant
    72% matchVery Positive89% of 388 reviews2026
    Developer: Delayed Victory
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.8hMean: 9.3h≥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.

  47. #47 Soulcaster
    74% matchVery Positive92% of 75 reviews2020
    Developer: StarBytePublisher: DigiPen Institute of Technology
    Platforms: Windows

    Escape an ancient temple by utilizing its arcane artifacts in an intriguing 2D puzzle plat-former.

  48. #48 Miner: Dig Deep
    73% matchVery Positive91% of 255 reviews2020
    Developer: Substance Games
    Platforms: 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.

  49. #49 Goblin Dungeons
    72% matchVery Positive85% of 273 reviews2025
    Developer: Loolust
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    A dark roguelike with magic and explicit content. Fight hordes of goblins, master spells, upgrade gear and experience random events. Unlock erotic scenes and defeat the Goblin King to save the world of Erotis.

  50. #50 Rot Gut
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 301 reviews2016
    Developer: Shotgun Surgeons
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 30mMean: 1.5h≥1hr: 14%

    Rot Gut is an action packed platformer set in America’s 1920’s Prohibition era. You take control of an agent who, to uncover their mysteries, goes on a mission to fight the city’s underground armed to the teeth organizations.

  51. #51 Colony 37
    72% matchVery Positive96% of 185 reviews2025
    Developer: Valen
    Platforms: Windows

    Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources. Spend your money on buying various trinkets and instruments that will help you along the way to earn even more profit.

  52. #52 Dynamite Jack
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 423 reviews2012
    Developer: Hassey Enterprises, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 2.5h≥1hr: 30%

    A brave space marine, armed with only bombs and a flashlight, must escape the Anathema Mines!

  53. #53 Refund Me If You Can
    72% matchMostly Positive79% of 134 reviews2022
    Developer: Sungame Studio
    Platforms: Windows

    One maze, one monster tracking you down, will you have the courage and dexterity to escape this nightmare in less than two hours ?

  54. #54 Drugs and Crime Idle
    72% matchMixed67% of 291 reviews2020
    Developer: Konstantin "Kash" Spasoff
    Platforms: Windows

    Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime! Sell drugs, attack with your gang, gamble your CrimeCoins away and hope, that you get that rare item, finally. Free-to-play. Offline Progression. No Microtransactions except 2 optional DLCs.

  55. #55 Miska's Cave
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 185 reviews2021
    Developer: SoulfleePublisher: Makka Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Miska's Cave is a unique action-centric side scroller with strategic components and animated with pixel art. If you love completing challenging games that require varying strategies, this game is for you.

  56. #56 Promesa
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 195 reviews2020
    Developer: Julián Palacios Gechtman
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.

  57. #57 Beneath the Mountain
    69% matchMixed67% of 212 reviews2024
    Developer: Omnis Rector StudiosPublisher: Gameclaw Studio
    Platforms: Windows

    In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.

  58. #58 Cave Crawler 2
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 160 reviews2024
    Developer: Evan Youssef
    Platforms: Windows

    Cave Crawler 2 is a retro-inspired 2D side-scroller. Escape a series of winding caves full of strange creatures and treacherous platforming challenges.

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