Games like DrainSim
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Dive into DrainSim and seize control of the floods! Clear the city's submerged streets, with a huge range of different tools from rakes to submersible pumps. Embrace the satisfaction of restoring the water flow. Become the city's hero, one drain at a time.
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Oct 31 · North Modding Company AB
Both: Sandbox · Realistic · First-Person
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.
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May 9 · Silent Bear Studio, SHINING GAMES
Both: Realistic · First-Person · Relaxing
Fish around the globe using float, bottom, spinning, or casting gear, and catch over 60 realistic fish species. Play solo or online in normal, realistic, or sandbox mode! Explore stunning locations, switch to an underwater cam, and fill your trophy room!
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Apr 26 · Tensori
Both: Realistic · First-Person · Relaxing
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
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Dec 20 · Lance Games
Both: First-Person · Sandbox
Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.
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Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Feb 7 · DoubleBee
Both: 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!
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Dec 4 · NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)
Both: Physics
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!
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Dec 12 · Embers
Both: First-Person · Underwater
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
MultiplayerHorrorFunnyFirst-PersonOnline Co-OpUnderwaterExplorationPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorDungeon Crawler👍 3,982Hydroneer
May 8 · Foulball Hangover
Both: Sandbox
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!
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Aug 3 · Uppercut Games Pty Ltd
Both: Relaxing
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Oct 5 · Exit Plan Games
Both: Sandbox
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Both: First-Person
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Oct 13 · LazyEti
Both: Relaxing
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Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Sandbox
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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