If the replayable and minimalist rhythm of SHAFTED stuck with you, this helps. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Drill to the heart of hostile planets with a crew of miners, carriers and guards. Dig by day, hold off alien swarms by night, and decide what matters more: profit or your people's safety. A colorful strategy game with a loop that keeps pulling you back for one more mission.
Replayable
Grid Miner is a real-time strategy puzzle game where you mine asteroids to gather resources and expand your space station. Unlock new tools and utilities as you progress through levels. Maintain your quotas and learn more about your employer and coworkers at Hypergo Industries.
Minimalist
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Replayable
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.
Replayable
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Replayable, Minimalist
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.
Replayable
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.
Replayable, Minimalist
Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market. Automate the Network with Delivery Drones. Enjoy the Grind. Enjoy the Future. Enjoy the PROFITS.
Replayable
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Replayable
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.
Replayable
The First Mine is a turn based building, strategy and puzzle game. You need to run a productive gold mine by placing, grouping and upgrading various resource tiles without being distracted by different tasks and random events.
Replayable, Minimalist
Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market.
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.
Star Birds is a relaxed factory game on asteroids. Scan rocks, mine ice and stranger things, and link it all with hand-drawn pipes while your…
Land on passing rocks, automate your mining operation, and earn your way back to Earth one contract at a time.
Run a mining crew on hostile alien worlds, balancing profit against the lives of your people.
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine.
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder.
TerraForge combines deep incremental mining with hands-on shopkeeping.
Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…
Survey deposits, drill ore and route everything on conveyors you design yourself, growing a quiet mining operation at your own pace.
Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…
Bounce a pickaxe through asteroids and watch whole rock layers burst apart.
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.
Dig up a backyard, process the ore, and let conveyors, robots and forklifts run the rest, alone or with friends.
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management.
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with…
Mine the rock, run the company and keep the towns of a Wild West state supplied.
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet.
Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably.
Mining Shift is an incremental game about mining minerals and upgrading your skills to master the elemental mines.
