Games like Hydroneer

Miss the relaxing and colorful pull of Hydroneer? These games are a good place to start.

Orebound
A first-person dwarven factory game in a procedurally generated voxel world. Mine, craft and automate your way through the mountains in search of the lost Emberstone, build a fortress worth the name, and play alone or with friends at your own pace.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Relaxing, Replayable
78% of 964 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99
Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
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.
Also in Co-op · Relaxing, Replayable
87% of 1,942 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 274$12.99
Out of Ore
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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 4,080 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 376$24.99
Sandustry
Sandustry is a factory game where every pixel is stuff you can mine, spill, melt, burn, or blow up. You start sifting gold from wet sand and end up plumbing steam, lava, seeds, and ice across a fully destructible planet, hunting artifacts left by an ancient civilization.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Replayable
97% of 5,682 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
MineMogul
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.
Relaxing, Chaotic, Replayable
96% of 4,499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 137$14.99
GeoDepths
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
86% of 297 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Mechanic Miner
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Also in Survival crafting · Chaotic, Replayable
53% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Mining Mechs
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.
Also in Co-op · Relaxing, Colorful, Replayable
89% of 2,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 56$0.74
Underminer
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.
Relaxing, Colorful
93% of 1,002 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Nightwater
Nightwater drops you on an island floating in a sea of starlight, where you turn sticks and stones into a working factory, manifest new biomes into existence and push through the ages toward a Lighthouse with a secret. A gentle, puzzling take on the factory game, made for unwinding rather than optimizing.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
83% of 167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99
Groundwork Simulator
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.
Also in Co-op · Relaxing, Chaotic
75% of 1,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 820$24.99
FOUNDRY
A first-person factory builder in an infinite voxel world. Mine, automate and optimize robot production from deep underground to the sky, sell through interplanetary trade, and do it all at your own pace: nothing here wants to eat you. Play solo or build together in co-op.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Relaxing, Replayable
82% of 3,329 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 212$29.99

Cheaper than Hydroneer

Mining Mechs

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

$0.74

Super Mining Mechs

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

$1.99

Gold Mining Simulator

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

$2.79

Colony 37

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources.

$2.99

Mining Merchant

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

$3.49

Particul

Tap out particles, automate the work and trade your way toward the rarest one.

$1.99

Space Architect

Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.

$1.79

DigDigDrill

Dig down through colorful pixel earth, forge better drills and chase floor 999 with no enemies and no clock.

$3.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Assembly Planter

A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches…

$1.99

Mechanica

Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.

$0.99

Drillbound

Drillbound is a short incremental mining game about drilling to the planet's core.

$3.99

Hidden gems like Hydroneer

Coal LLC

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

$14.99

Deep Corp

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

$14.99

Sandustry

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

$19.99

Ore Factory Squad ⛏️

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

$12.99

FluxWerks

Build a factory inside a destructible voxel world, tunneling, managing heat and letting your nanobot swarm handle the rest.

$24.99

Idle Deepcore

Run a growing mining operation from a single drill to a spacefaring industry, one upgrade at a time.

$4.89

MineMogul

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

$14.99

Dig Island

You crash on a tropical island and dig your way off it. Shovel in hand, you go deeper for rarer ores, keep generators fed, cook fish to stay fed…

$14.99

Nightwater

Build a gentle automation sandbox on a floating island, at your own pace, with a quiet mystery waiting at the end.

$14.99

Underminer

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

Free

Particul

Tap out particles, automate the work and trade your way toward the rarest one.

$1.99

Super Mining Mechs

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

$1.99

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