Games like The Nugget

Remember how relaxing and atmospheric The Nugget felt at its best? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Gold Mining Simulator
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.
Relaxing
72% of 15,193 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 444$2.79
Wild West Miner Simulator: First Gun
After a savage animal attack leaves you stripped of everything, you crawl back toward a town that’s already forgotten you. Among dust, suspicion, and long shadows, you fight to reclaim a place in a world that would rather see you buried.
Relaxing, Atmospheric
71% of 98 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Find The Gold
A mountain of sand. Gold hidden somewhere inside. Dig, haul and sell your first loads, then build the machines that take over the hard work. Connect conveyors, power a growing factory and uncover natural gold specimens in a first-person digging and automation game.
Relaxing
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$3.99
Gold Challenge
A gold hunter simulator. Here you can walk around the forest and enjoy the nature, meet different animals and, of course, gather gold.
Relaxing
24% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$199.99
Mine the Gold
Gold, diamonds, and dynamite? That's right, you're a goldminer and it's your job to mine as much gold as you can and come out with the most money. Are you ready? Time to goldrush!
Relaxing
46% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Alaska Gold Fever
Alaska, 1896. You inherit a rundown hotel and a pickaxe, and set out to make a fortune in gold. Dig, sift, smelt and sell, upgrade your tools, survive the cold, and grow a small camp into a business empire. A slow, satisfying grind for anyone who likes watching numbers and nuggets pile up.
Relaxing, Atmospheric
79% of 1,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$13.59
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 Co-op · Relaxing
85% of 4,087 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 376$24.99
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
76% of 1,096 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 685$24.99
Dig & Deal
Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find. Upgrade your tools, grow your shop, and make the best deals to build your fortune.
Relaxing
67% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Just Keep Digging
A mining simulator where you dig deeper and deeper to find the rarest gems and ores to sell, upgrading your gear while meeting the company's increasing weekly profit quota.
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hydroneer
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.
Also in Co-op · Relaxing
85% of 27,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 449$14.99
Another Game About Digging A Hole
A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet. Collect resources, sell them and upgrade your equipment - discover all available resources!
Relaxing
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than The Nugget

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

Find The Gold

A mountain of sand. Gold hidden somewhere inside. Dig, haul and sell your first loads, then build the machines that take over the hard work.

$3.99

Wild West Miner Simulator

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

$5.99

Golden Pan

A cozy gold panning game. Wash the creek gravel, watch the gold settle in your pan, sell your finds in the village, and turn a small empty room into…

$2.79

Mine the Gold

Gold, diamonds, and dynamite? That's right, you're a goldminer and it's your job to mine as much gold as you can and come out with the most money.

$1.99

Dig & Deal

Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find.

$9.99

Just Keep Digging

A mining simulator where you dig deeper and deeper to find the rarest gems and ores to sell, upgrading your gear while meeting the company's…

$9.99

Another Game About Digging A Hole

A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet.

$2.99

Dig For Riches

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

$7.99

Buscabit: A treasure hunter adventure

Find all the treasures waiting for you in the cubic world of Buscabit and become the king of metal detecting.

$2.99

Mineral Mining Simulator

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

$9.74

Metal Detector Island

A cozy first-person metal-detecting adventure where you explore an island, follow signals, dig up buried chests, sell or collect your finds, upgrade…

$9.99

Hidden gems like The Nugget

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

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

Underminer

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

Free

Alaska Gold Fever

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

$13.59

Groundwork Simulator

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

$24.99

TerraForge

TerraForge combines deep incremental mining with hands-on shopkeeping.

$8.99

Wild West Miner Simulator

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

$5.99

A Game About Digging A Hole™

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

$4.99

Out of Ore

Start with a shovel in the frozen north and build a mining company into an industrial empire, one haul at a time.

$24.99

Miner: Dig Deep

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.

$6.99

Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator

Chop timber, raise derricks and run a rugged drilling operation in the early 1900s, one barrel at a time.

$11.24

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