Games like Mineral Mining Simulator
by Bewolba Studios
Food Processing Simulator and Recycling Center Simulator play most like Mineral Mining Simulator. Of the 16 closest games below, most share its automation, sandbox and building; 5 came out in the last year, 8 are free or under $10 and 2 have co-op. The best known is Hydroneer, with 27,170 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Food Processing Simulator
May 14 · Bewolba Studios
Both: Automation · Life Sim · Sandbox
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
AutomationSimulationLife SimSandboxImmersive SimTime ManagementInventory ManagementManagementResource ManagementJob Simulator👍 305Recycling Center Simulator
Oct 2, 2024 · Balas Games
Both: Life Sim · Time Management · Automation
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
SimulationFirst-PersonManagementLife SimTime ManagementAutomationImmersive SimEconomySandboxBuilding👍 2,599Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator
Apr 21, 2022 · Bigosaur
Both: Realistic · Mining · Building
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.
SimulationManagementEconomyRealisticHardwareMiningBuildingSandboxAutomationTrading👍 329Hydroneer
May 8, 2020 · Foulball Hangover
Both: Automation · Mining · 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!
Base BuildingAutomationMiningSandboxCo-opMultiplayerOpen WorldBuildingFunnySimulation👍 27,170Ore Factory Squad ⛏
Jul 16 · threeW
Both: Mining · Sandbox · Automation
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!
SimulationMiningOnline Co-OpSandboxAutomationCo-opBuildingManagementExplorationEconomy👍 1,699Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
Sep 10 · CreativeForge Games
Both: Automation · Building · Realistic
Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.
SimulationCasualAutomationResource ManagementBuildingRealisticCraftingManagementFirst-PersonAtmospheric👍 144Gold Mining Simulator
Oct 13, 2017 · Code Horizon
Both: Mining · Realistic · 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👍 15,140MineMogul
Dec 4, 2025 · NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)
Both: Automation · Building · Mining
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!
Early AccessAutomationBuildingPhysicsMiningStrategySimulationCraftingBase BuildingManagement👍 4,355Pumping Simulator 2
Sep 12, 2023 · Lance Games
Both: Life Sim · Time Management · Sandbox
A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich
SimulationCasualLife SimTime Management3DEconomyManagementSandboxFirst-PersonRealistic👍 1,646Out of Ore
Oct 31, 2022 · North Modding Company AB
Both: Sandbox · Realistic · Building
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.
SimulationSandboxExplorationFarming SimRealisticChoose Your Own Adventure3DFirst-PersonBuildingThird Person👍 3,989Automation Empire
Nov 20, 2019 · DOG HOGGLER
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Building
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
SimulationAutomationStrategyBase BuildingSandboxBuildingResource ManagementEconomyManagementCrafting👍 2,586Voxel Tycoon
Apr 15, 2021 · Voxel Tycoon
Both: Sandbox · Automation · Building
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Early AccessSandboxAutomationBuildingCraftingEconomyManagementTrainsTransportationCity Builder👍 1,561Captain of Industry
May 31, 2022 · MaFi Games
Both: Automation · Building
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
AutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSimulationStrategyEconomyManagementBuildingCity BuilderEarly Access👍 11,079Moose Miners
May 10, 2024 · Lingon Studios
Both: Mining · Building · Automation
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👍 521Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Life Sim · Sandbox · Time Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,164Crypto Mining Simulator
Apr 24, 2021 · Satosha Nakamoti
Both: Life Sim · Mining · Building
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👍 1,423
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Dyson Sphere Program
Jan 20, 2021 · Youthcat Studio
Both: Automation · Building · Sandbox
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementOpen WorldSimulationSci-fiManagementSandbox👍 83,608Satisfactory
Sep 10, 2024 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Automation · Building · Sandbox
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldCraftingMultiplayerCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 235,375
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