Games like Starground

If Starground left you wanting something replayable and cute, you have options. You might settle into these games easily.

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 and Co-op · Replayable, Cute, Retro
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
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 · Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 965 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$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 · Replayable, Relaxing
82% of 3,331 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 212$29.99
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
96% of 4,499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 137$14.99
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 · Replayable, Relaxing
87% of 1,942 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 274$12.99
Nova Lands
Nova Lands is a 2D factory building game on a bright, mysterious planet. You start by hand, then build up an industry, hand the work to little helper bots and push out to new islands. Explore caves, meet creatures and people, and automate everything so you can wander instead of grind.
Also in Survival crafting · Retro, Relaxing, Colorful
90% of 2,534 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Terrafactor
You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
90% of 91 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Astro Colony
Astro Colony is a relaxed automation game in an endless procedurally generated universe. Build conveyor networks, move and dock your stations, recruit astronauts and research new tech, alone or with friends. No timers, no punishing failure: just you, a growing colony and a galaxy of voxel planets to strip for parts.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
80% of 2,440 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
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 · Replayable, Relaxing
97% of 5,682 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
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 · Retro, Relaxing
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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
78% of 558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
The Crust
Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and sane, and trade with rival factions whose politics you can bend. A story campaign with multiple endings, or sandbox at your own pace.
Replayable, Relaxing
75% of 3,977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 538$19.19

Cheaper than Starground

Starvester

Send drones out to mine planets, unlock upgrades and raise megastructures while the numbers quietly climb.

$6.99

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

Forage Wizard

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

$6.99

Boppio

Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home.

$9.99

Farlight Explorers

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive.

$9.99

Space Architect

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

$1.79

Hydroneer

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

$4.49

Stonewards

Mine for ore between monster waves, hammer out upgrades and defend your camp with up to three friends.

$9.99

Sixty Four

Combine cube-making machines into stranger ones, automate everything, and answer the messages of something watching from below.

$5.99

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

Widget Inc.

Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.

$2.49

Terra Machina

Mine ore, build factories across strange worlds, and let your machines do the heavy lifting.

$5.99

Hidden gems like Starground

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

Forage Wizard

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

$6.99

Alchemy Factory

Automate a medieval workshop with belts, pipes and magical contraptions, alone or with friends.

$17.99

MineMogul

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

$14.99

Outworld Station

Link modules with tubes, run supply chains across planets and build starships at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$18.99

Star Birds

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…

$19.99

Astronomics

Land on passing rocks, automate your mining operation, and earn your way back to Earth one contract at a time.

$19.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Nightwater

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

$14.99

Astro Colony

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

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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