
Gold Mining Simulator
Lease a claim in Alaska, run heavy machinery, and wash real gold out of the dirt at your own pace.
If Coal Mining Simulator left you wanting something chaotic, you have options. These games are worth a look next.
Run a mining company in the frozen north: dig for ore with real heavy machinery, blast, haul, build roads and conveyors, and grow from one laborer with a shovel into an industrial empire. It is a slow, satisfying sandbox where the machines feel big and the plans get bigger.
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Start with a bucket and a leased claim in Alaska, then dig your way to a fortune. Drive excavators, drills and bulldozers, keep the machines running, and wash real gold out of fully deformable dirt. A slow, satisfying mining business sim for anyone who likes watching honest work pay off.
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Coal LLC puts you at the top of a very friendly coal corporation with a very unfriendly daily quota. Dig deeper each day, hire a suspicious number of employees, and fill the quota or start over. A cute, colorful roguelite about digging, upgrading and one more day.
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Groundwork Simulator puts you in the cab of excavators, loaders and bulldozers on an open-world gold claim. Dig, haul and wash dirt into gold, reshape the land scoop by scoop, and run the whole site solo or with friends in online co-op. Low pressure, real physics, and ground that remembers every move you make.
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Dig a backyard with a shovel, end up running a full mining industry. Ore Factory Squad is a relaxed co-op factory builder: buy plots of land, dig freely through procedurally generated ground, process your ore, and automate the whole thing with conveyors, robots and forklifts. Play solo or with up to three friends, at your own pace.
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A short, friendly mining adventure in a colorful pixel-art underworld. Dig for minerals, sell them, upgrade your drill machine and push deeper, following clues to the legendary minerals hidden in the Veil.
The governor sent you to a town that does not exist, so it is time to make one. Dig for coal, iron, copper, gold and diamonds, pump oil from deep underground, and turn a tent in the wasteland into a town people actually want to live in. A calm, first-person frontier sim for unwinding after a long day: dig, sell, build, then play darts at the saloon.
Build a mining operation from a single cave to a full production network: survey deposits, drill ore, refine gems, synthesize composites, and route it all on conveyors you design yourself. Hire workers, load trains, sell to growing markets, and fix one bottleneck at a time. A calm, satisfying automation game you can play at your own pace.
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MineMogul is a physics-based automation sandbox set deep underground. Mine ore, buy machines and wind conveyors through twisting mineshafts, where every piece of ore is a real physical object that can pile up, spill and jam. Rebuild, tinker and laugh at the mess as you turn a forgotten cave into a sprawling factory empire.
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Hydroneer is a mining sandbox where every rock is real. Dig for gold with a shovel, wash it in a pan, then spend the profits on drills, pipes and hydro-powered machines until your little pit becomes an industrial empire. No timers, no failure, just you, a bucket and a very patient river.
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Run a mining company in a late Wild West state: dig tunnels, hire miners, keep the ore carts moving, and turn raw rock into goods for growing towns. As governor, your deliveries keep your rating alive. A hand-drawn management game that is easy to learn and quietly absorbing.
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Strange noises are coming from underground, so you climb into a mining mech and start digging. Sell minerals, upgrade your drill, connect mines for passive income and push deeper into colorful pixel-art earth. No enemies, no timers, just the satisfying loop of dig, sell, upgrade. Play alone or dig together with up to 7 friends online.

Lease a claim in Alaska, run heavy machinery, and wash real gold out of the dirt at your own pace.

Dig up a backyard, process the ore, and let conveyors, robots and forklifts run the rest, alone or with friends.

Mine for ore and oil in first person, then grow a tent in the wasteland into a frontier town worth staying for.

Survey deposits, drill ore and route everything on conveyors you design yourself, growing a quiet mining operation at your own pace.

Pan for gold, build hydro-powered machines and grow a mining empire at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Pilot a mining mech through colorful underground layers, selling minerals and upgrading your drill at your own pace, alone or with friends.

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.

Blast rocks, drill tunnels and force your way through every mountain. At the beginning you have enough time and no major problems.

Dig For Riches is a realistic mining simulation. Dig the earth, extract valuable minerals, haul them to the surface by cart and sell them.

Mine crystals, build railways and survive the dark as a very replaceable goblin.

Dig down through your garden's dirt, sell what you find, and uncover what's buried at the bottom.

Take a colorful mech to a new planet, drill for treasure, upgrade your rig and unwind with friends in online co-op.

Run a cheerful little coal company where every day brings a deeper mine, a bigger payroll and a quota that will not wait.

Mine the rock, run the company and keep the towns of a Wild West state supplied.

Dig up a backyard, process the ore, and let conveyors, robots and forklifts run the rest, alone or with friends.

Dig for ore, wire up conveyors and let physics turn your underground factory into a glorious mess.

You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain.

Mine crystals, build railways and survive the dark as a very replaceable goblin.

Mine minerals in a subterranean world, upgrade your drill machine and chase the secret of the legendary minerals.

Run a rundown Alaskan hotel, dig and smelt your way to a fortune, and watch a small camp grow into a business.

Take a colorful mech to a new planet, drill for treasure, upgrade your rig and unwind with friends in online co-op.

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine.

You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself.

Run a gold claim with heavy machinery, at your own pace and with friends if you want them.

Run a gold claim with heavy machinery, at your own pace and with friends if you want them.

Survey deposits, drill ore and route everything on conveyors you design yourself, growing a quiet mining operation at your own pace.

Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market.

Mine for ore and oil in first person, then grow a tent in the wasteland into a frontier town worth staying for.

After a savage animal attack leaves you stripped of everything, you crawl back toward a town that’s already forgotten you.

Dig up a backyard, process the ore, and let conveyors, robots and forklifts run the rest, alone or with friends.

Mine crystals, build railways and survive the dark as a very replaceable goblin.

Mine the rock, run the company and keep the towns of a Wild West state supplied.

Your uncle's jewelry shop is a mess, and only you can save it.

Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core.

Run a rundown Alaskan hotel, dig and smelt your way to a fortune, and watch a small camp grow into a business.

Take over a run-down scrapyard and turn trash into a business.