Games like A Game About Digging A Hole™
by DoubleBee
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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$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
-10%$8.99Dig & Deal
4 days ago · ToYa Games
Both: Exploration · Economy · Mining
Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find. Upgrade your tools, grow your shop, and make the best deals to build your fortune.
SimulationExplorationEconomyChoices MatterTradingMiningUndergroundSandboxCasual3D
-75%$0.74Mining Mechs
Oct 27 · Delayed Victory
Both: Mining · Underground
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
$11.99Deep Corp
May 26 · KishMish Games
Both: Mining · Underground · 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
$3.99DigDigDrill
Dec 9 · Toorai
Both: Mining · Underground · Exploration
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
$4.99Exo Digger
Jun 7 · TornaGames
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Voxel
Exo Digger is a relaxing mining simulator set on a distant planet. Dig deep, extract rare minerals, upgrade your equipment, and expand your inventory. Explore the depths, but beware some areas of the mines may be dangerous. Who knows what secrets this planet holds beneath its surface?
AdventureSandboxExplorationDungeon CrawlerHidden Object3DVoxelFirst-PersonFuturisticMining
-30%$4.89Mining Merchant
May 1 · Delayed Victory
Both: Sandbox · Mining · Crafting
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
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Exploration · Sandbox · Crafting
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
-60%$1.99Super Mining Mechs
Oct 25 · Delayed Victory
Both: Sandbox · Underground
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
$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
$14.99Below the Stone
Nov 17 · Strollart
Both: Mining · Exploration · Underground
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.
Early AccessDwarvesMiningExplorationRoguelikePixel GraphicsDungeon CrawlerAction RoguelikeUndergroundRoguelite👍 391
$6.99Ad Fundum
Jun 13 · Oldbut Gold
Both: Mining · Underground · 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
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Crafting · Sandbox · Exploration
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
$7.99Gem Blast
Aug 1 · Avalon Studios
Both: Mining · Underground
Mine gems on an infinite hex board. Play as a cute robot stranded on an alien planet. Find ship parts to repair your broken space ship. Use markers and logic to find gems and avoid bombs. Skillful play lets you dig longer. Spend gems to upgrade Dig Bot. Unlock achievements for even more power!
MiningStrategyRoguelitePuzzleArcade2DCuteCasualRelaxingUnderground
FreeDoug The Digger
Apr 23 · Rapid Iterations
Both: Mining · Exploration
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!
SurvivalAdventureMiningCasualRPGExplorationSide Scroller2DColorfulCute
$24.99Beneath the Mountain
Mar 5 · Omnis Rector Studios
Both: Crafting · Mining · Underground
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.
FantasyManagementCraftingMagicMiningMedievalUndergroundSurvivalTacticalTactical RPG👍 198
$13.99Starground
Aug 19 · Big Boy Games
Both: Mining · Crafting
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Early AccessMiningSimulationOnline Co-OpAutomationDungeon CrawlerBase BuildingCraftingMultiplayerStrategy👍 157
$9.99MewnBase
Oct 30 · Cairn4
Both: Crafting · Exploration · Sandbox
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Base BuildingCraftingCuteExplorationSandboxSurvivalSpaceBuilding2DAction-Adventure👍 1,333
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Both: Crafting
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opTrainsMultiplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 8,715
$24.99Little Kitty, Big City
May 9 · Double Dagger Studio
Both: Exploration · Sandbox
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
CatsCuteExplorationWholesomeCozyFamily FriendlySandboxFunnySimulationIndie👍 10,427
$16.99Return from Core
Jul 17 · 顽核社 FuncoreClub
Both: Sandbox · Crafting
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
AutomationSurvivalBase BuildingDating SimSandboxCraftingSingleplayerActionAdventureBuilding👍 1,621
FreeVoxelMancy
May 29 · Reuniko
Both: Voxel · Sandbox
Online voxel sandbox where you can build anything imaginable. Forget simple cubes – sculpt slopes, curves, and structures of any size with many realistic materials. Your imagination is the only limit!
Early AccessVoxelBuildingSandboxProcedural GenerationLevel EditorFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureGod GameCharacter Customization
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Crafting · Sandbox · Exploration
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalFarmingBuildingDungeon CrawlerOpen WorldNatureCraftingSandboxExploration👍 5,936
$6.99Another Try 2
Apr 17 · Hoki Wolf Studio
Both: Exploration · Crafting
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Early AccessSurvivalAdventurePost-apocalypticZombiesExplorationLootCraftingDrivingAction👍 1,002
$9.99Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival
May 2 · RetroStyle Games
Both: Mining
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!
Procedural GenerationActionMining2DAtmosphericRoguelikeRogueliteCombatSingleplayerSci-fi👍 826
$24.99ANIMAL WELL
May 9 · Billy Basso
Both: Exploration · Horror
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
MetroidvaniaExplorationPuzzlePixel GraphicsPuzzle PlatformerPlatformerHorror2DAtmosphericAdventure👍 22,819
$8.99Backwoods Town
Nov 24 · Andrii Prots
Both: Sandbox · Exploration
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
BuildingFarming SimSurvivalAgricultureAtmosphericInventory ManagementLootAdventureSandboxExploration👍 192
-20%$15.99Pathless Woods
Apr 2 · AniYa Games Studio
Both: Crafting · Sandbox
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Open WorldCraftingSurvivalSandboxSimulationFarming SimBuildingCity BuilderBase Building3D👍 951
-40%$8.99The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Dec 18 · PeatyTurf
Both: Sandbox
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
SandboxPhysicsParkourMedievalBase BuildingFunnyThird PersonSingleplayerSimulationBuilding👍 682
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Sandbox
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$24.99Orebound
Oct 24 · Emberforge
Both: Crafting
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Early AccessResource ManagementDwarvesSingleplayerIndieFirst-PersonBuildingSimulationOpen WorldCrafting👍 948
$39.99Enshrouded
Jan 24 · Keen Games GmbH
Both: Crafting · Exploration
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Open WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerOnline Co-OpCraftingRPGAdventureExplorationBuilding👍 93,460
$14.99The Complex: Expedition
Jul 18 · pgWave
Both: Horror · Exploration
When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
HorrorExplorationRealisticSingleplayerPsychological HorrorStory RichActionMysteryAdventureCinematic👍 2,621
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: Exploration · Economy
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$9.99Moose Miners
May 10 · Lingon Studios
Both: Mining · Economy
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
$9.99A Webbing Journey
May 19 · Fire Totem Games
Both: Exploration · Sandbox
Adorable spider chaos! Swing around the house, weave crazy structures, play with physics-based objects, and pull off chores with nothing but your webs and your wits in this madcap sandbox adventure.
Early AccessCozyExplorationPhysicsCuteSandboxWholesomePuzzleColorful3D Platformer👍 1,266
-80%$4.99SteamWorld Build
Dec 1 · The Station
Both: Economy
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
City BuilderCasualRelaxingEconomySingleplayerResource ManagementCartoonyColorfulControllerCute👍 1,885
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$7.99Swarm Grinder
Apr 22 · Last Bite Games
An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.
RoguelikeRogueliteAction RoguelikeBullet HellMechsProcedural Generation2DPixel GraphicsControllerAction RPG👍 1,164
$17.99Farlands
Jul 16 · JanduSoft, Eric Rodríguez
Both: Crafting · Exploration
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
Farming SimBuildingCraftingAgricultureExplorationLife SimEarly AccessCuteIndieFishing👍 1,628
$14.99Soulstone Survivors
Jun 17 · Game Smithing Limited
Both: Crafting
Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteAction RPGRoguelikeCraftingRPGHack and SlashAction👍 25,755
$19.99Dawn Apart
Jul 14 · Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Both: Crafting · Voxel
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Colony SimBase BuildingAutomationStrategyCraftingVoxelSpaceSimulationResource ManagementPhysics👍 245
-45%$4.94Murky Divers
Dec 12 · Embers
Both: Horror · Exploration
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.
HorrorMultiplayerFunnyOnline Co-OpFirst-PersonUnderwaterExplorationPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorDungeon Crawler👍 3,982
$14.99Minishoot' Adventures
Apr 2 · SoulGame Studio
Both: Exploration
Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
Twin Stick ShooterBullet HellMetroidvaniaExplorationTop-DownAdventureRPGCute2DCasual👍 7,820
Prospector: The First Contract
Jul 12 · Loonworks Games
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Crafting
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalPixel GraphicsAutomationOpen WorldExplorationBuildingAdventureCrafting
FreeIdle Cave Miner
Dec 7 · Cold Hours
Both: Mining · Crafting
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
IdlerIncrementalMiningManagementCraftingPixel Graphics2DResource ManagementSimulationCute
-20%$7.99Escape the Backrooms
Oct 23 · Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Both: Horror · Exploration
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationAdventure👍 137,469







