Games like Return from Core

Hooked on the cute and colorful side of Return from Core? These games are worth a look next.

Core Keeper
Core Keeper is an underground digging adventure for one to eight players in a forgotten cavern. You dig, craft, farm, build a base, and chase the secret of the old Core, alone or in drop-in co-op with friends. Exploring its biomes is fun, and the early hours are especially strong.
Also in Survival crafting · Cute, Colorful, Mysterious
92% of 51,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,593$19.99
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Also in Survival crafting · Mysterious
78% of 558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Starground
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!
Also in Survival crafting · Cute, Colorful
78% of 159 Steam reviews are positive$10.49
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
78% of 964 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99
AutoForge
A 2D automation sandbox where the factory runs on Mana and the factory worker is a golem. Build production lines, farm, tame monsters, dig for ore and unlock the world region by region, all while a very persistent defense system tries to take your resources back. Thoughtful building, gentle pixel art, and a mystery about your missing masters.
Also in Survival crafting · Cute, Colorful, Mysterious
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Craft Hero
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Also in Survival crafting
81% of 370 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Aground Zero
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Also in Survival crafting · Mysterious
80% of 124 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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.
96% of 4,499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 137$14.99
HG Adventure
You suddenly enter a whole new world empty-handed. Start a whole new adventure all your own. Farming, fishing, building, cooking, alchemy and living a quiet life. Or is it fighting monsters, learning skills, building equipment and discovering the world's hidden secrets? Or maybe I want them all.
Also in Survival crafting · Cute, Colorful, Mysterious
88% of 132 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
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.
Colorful, Mysterious
93% of 1,002 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Prospector
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Also in Survival crafting · Mysterious
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
CleanFall
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Also in Survival crafting
93% of 505 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99

Cheaper than Return from Core

Craft Hero

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night!

$4.99

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

Hydroneer

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

$4.49

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

Colony 37

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

$2.99

My Shelter

A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study.

$3.99

Forage Wizard

Tap trees for wood, brew potions in your pixel workshop, and let your base slowly do the work for you.

$6.99

Kin and Quarry

An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree.

$7.99

Force of Nature

Wash up on a colorful island, build a homestead, tame strange beasts and chase the pieces of a mythical gem, alone or with friends.

$7.99

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

Time to Morp

Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build…

$4.99

Diggin

You are Doug, a young mole digging into the meteor crater your Grandpa Digby found.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Return from Core

AETHUS

Mine for answers, grow a home on the surface, and let a corporate mystery pull you further down.

$19.99

Colony 37

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

$2.99

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

CleanFall

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity.

$11.99

Forage Wizard

Tap trees for wood, brew potions in your pixel workshop, and let your base slowly do the work for you.

$6.99

MineMogul

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

$14.99

Delverium

Build a settlement, grow your crops and dig into the Faults corrupting the land, alone or with up to seven friends.

$9.99

Wonderia

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored.

$13.99

Diggin

You are Doug, a young mole digging into the meteor crater your Grandpa Digby found.

$6.99

Underminer

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

Free

MewnBase

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

$9.99

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

Newest games like Return from Core