Games like Coal Mining Simulator
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Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
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$19.99Gold Mining Simulator
Oct 13 · Code Horizon
Both: Mining · Open World · Sandbox
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
SimulationMiningSingleplayerRealisticOpen WorldIndieDrivingSandboxEconomyBuilding👍 15,135
$11.99Deep Corp
May 26 · KishMish Games
Both: Mining · Management · Sandbox
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!
StrategyMiningRTSManagementUndergroundResource ManagementSandboxExplorationWesternTime Management👍 367
$14.99Hydroneer
May 8 · Foulball Hangover
Both: Mining · Sandbox · Open World
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!
Base BuildingAutomationMiningSandboxCo-opMultiplayerOpen WorldBuildingFunnySimulation👍 27,144
-30%$17.49Out of Ore
Oct 31 · North Modding Company AB
Both: Sandbox · Exploration
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
SimulationSandboxExplorationRealisticFarming SimChoose Your Own Adventure3DFirst-PersonBuildingThird Person👍 3,983
$29.99Universe Sandbox
Aug 24 · Giant Army
Both: Sandbox · Education · Relaxing
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Early AccessSimulationSandboxIndieSpaceEducationSpace SimRelaxingPhysicsOpen World👍 27,857
$4.99Crypto Mining Simulator
Apr 24 · Satosha Nakamoti
Both: Mining · Sandbox
Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!
SimulationLife SimIdlerFarming SimMiningBuildingStrategy RPGSandboxEconomyRealistic👍 1,420
$4.99A Game About Digging A Hole™
Feb 7 · DoubleBee
Both: Exploration · Mining · Sandbox
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!
ExplorationMiningSandboxVoxelHorrorSimulationEconomyCraftingSingleplayerUnderground👍 18,788
$12.99Turmoil
Jun 2 · Gamious
Both: Management · Mining · Relaxing
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
ManagementMiningStrategyTime ManagementResource ManagementTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerSingleplayerRelaxingAsynchronous Multiplayer👍 13,158
$23.99Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator
Apr 21 · Bigosaur
Both: Management · Mining · Sandbox
Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies and reach the goal of each scenario.
SimulationManagementEconomyRealisticMiningHardwareBuildingSandboxAutomationTrading👍 326
$3.99DigDigDrill
Dec 9 · Toorai
Both: Mining · Exploration · Relaxing
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.
MiningCollectathonUndergroundExplorationHack and SlashCharacter CustomizationLootDestructionPuzzleRelaxing👍 609
$6.99Miner: Dig Deep
Nov 27 · Substance Games
Both: Mining · Relaxing · Exploration
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.
MiningLootAdventureRelaxingPlatformer2D PlatformerProcedural GenerationSimulationUndergroundExploration👍 242
-25%$11.24Rising World
Dec 3 · JIW-Games
Both: Mining · Relaxing · Sandbox
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Open World Survival CraftMiningRelaxingBuildingBase BuildingVoxelSandboxSurvivalCraftingExploration👍 5,312
$35.00Factorio
Aug 14 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Sandbox · Management · Open World
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.
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxCraftingStrategyMultiplayerSurvivalManagementOpen World👍 195,659
$9.99Moose Miners
May 10 · Lingon Studios
Both: Management · Mining
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
IncrementalSimulationStrategyIdlerManagementMiningResource ManagementEconomyBuildingAutomation👍 519
$19.99Brick Rigs
Jul 14 · Fluppisoft GmbH
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Physics
Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
SandboxDestructionBuildingMultiplayerOpen WorldPhysicsFamily FriendlyDrivingSimulationFunny👍 53,797
$19.99PC Building Simulator
Jan 29 · Claudiu Kiss, The Irregular Corporation
Both: Education · Management · Sandbox
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
SimulationEducationImmersive SimBuildingManagementSandboxFirst-Person3DRealisticLife Sim👍 42,153
-30%$17.49Space Simulation Toolkit
Jun 5 · Pavel Kudinov
Both: Sandbox · Physics · Education
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
SimulationSandboxPhysicsEarly AccessIndieArtificial Intelligence2DSpaceSpace SimEducation👍 501
$14.99My Little Universe
Oct 5 · Estoty
Both: Mining · Exploration · Sandbox
Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!
MiningExplorationDungeon CrawlerSandboxCraftingSurvivalCharacter CustomizationSpace3DAction👍 1,503
-85%$1.04Wall World
Apr 5 · Alawar
Both: Mining · Exploration
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?
RogueliteMiningPixel GraphicsTower DefenseRoguelikeStrategyDifficultExplorationProcedural GenerationMechs👍 11,364
$9.99BORE BLASTERS
Mar 8 · 8BitSkull
Both: Mining · Exploration
Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.
DwarvesMiningExplorationLootActionProcedural GenerationRogueliteAction RoguelikeCollectathonCasual👍 709
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Open World
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$9.99ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Jul 21 · Kodera Software
Both: Physics · Exploration · Open World
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
SpaceSci-fiPhysicsSingleplayerExplorationTop-DownSpace SimImmersive SimVehicular CombatOpen World👍 2,883
$9.99Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Nov 30 · Jace Masula
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Mining
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
SimulationSpaceIndieAdventureSandboxOpen WorldMiningSpace SimSingleplayerProcedural Generation👍 446
$5.99BoomTown! Deluxe
Oct 14 · Ish Games
Both: Management · Mining
An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.
SimulationStrategyIndieCasualManagementMiningResource ManagementCity BuilderActionArcade👍 196
-60%$5.99DEEEER Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game
Nov 23 · Gibier Games
Both: Exploration · Sandbox · Physics
Put simply, DEEEER Simulator is a “Slow-Life Town Destruction Game”. You can spend your days enjoying a nice, relaxed frolic here and there together with the other animals around town, or you can choose to relieve some stress and absolutely destroy the town and everything in it.
ExplorationSandboxFunnyPhysicsThird PersonCuteParody SurrealOpen WorldHorses👍 4,446
-40%$4.19Fracture Field
Apr 20 · Type Ten
Both: Mining · Relaxing · Management
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
IncrementalIdlerMiningAutomationResource ManagementCasualRelaxingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 1,199
FreeCrypto Miner Tycoon Simulator Starter Edition
Apr 24 · Bigosaur
Both: Management · Sandbox · Mining
Start in your bedroom in year 2010. Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies.
SimulationFree to PlayManagementEconomySandboxBuildingSingleplayerAutomationMiningSoftware
$29.99SnowRunner
May 17 · Saber Interactive
Both: Exploration · Open World · Sandbox
Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!
SimulationAutomobile SimMultiplayerDrivingAdventureExplorationRealisticOpen WorldSandboxFirst-Person👍 46,384
-60%$1.99Super Mining Mechs
Oct 25 · Delayed Victory
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
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!
Online Co-OpSide ScrollerCollectathonSandboxCharacter CustomizationMechs2DRelaxingSteampunkUnderground👍 844
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Exploration · Sandbox
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.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
-75%$0.74Mining Mechs
Oct 27 · Delayed Victory
Both: Mining
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!
Co-opOnline Co-OpMultiplayerMiningSingleplayerUndergroundAdventureCasualRobotsIndie👍 2,577
$14.99Tile Miner
Nov 10 · nalothchris, swanee734
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Mining
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
AdventureSandboxAction2DOpen WorldBuildingPixel GraphicsSurvivalMiningCrafting
-30%$4.89Mining Merchant
May 1 · Delayed Victory
Both: Sandbox · Mining · Relaxing
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.
Online Co-OpSide ScrollerSandbox2DMiningCasualCraftingShop KeeperRelaxingUnderground👍 412
$6.99Ad Fundum
Jun 13 · Oldbut Gold
Both: Mining · Exploration
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?
MiningCollectathonUndergroundSteampunkMechsCharacter CustomizationExplorationSci-fiProcedural GenerationSimulation👍 431
$2.99Total Miner
Dec 23 · Brandon Moore
Both: Sandbox · Exploration
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Open World Survival CraftEarly AccessSandboxMultiplayerSingleplayerIndieActionExplorationRPGAdventure👍 708
