Games Like The Last Ores

The Last Ores

Dig the earth, collect ores and sell them to upgrade your equipment. Explore a mysterious depths. And the deeper you go… the more you realize something ancient has been waiting for you down there, in the dark, for a very long time.

★ MELTOPIA ★ A GAME ABOUT DIGGING A HOLE™ ★ COAL MINING SIMULATOR: PROLOGUE ★ THE POWDER TOY ★ CRAWLING ANGELS ★ SOLAR EXPANSE - SPACE EXPLORATION MANAGER ★ BRIGHT LIGHTS OF SVETLOV ★ DARK FRACTURE: PROLOGUE ★ THE LOOKER ★ NEAR DEATH ★ ENA: DREAM BBQ ★ DREAMCORE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Meltopia

85% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Melt Snow Tunnels
  • …Blast Ice With Dynamite
  • …Salvage Hidden Finds
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A Game About Digging A Hole™

89% 👍 OF 20K
About This Game

A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …strap on a battery-powered jetpack so you can rocket back out after digging too deep to climb
  • …use a metal detector that starts reacting as you get close, turning the search into hot-and-cold treasure hunting
  • …finish hours of digging by reaching a secret that suddenly changes the vibe right at the end
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Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue

66% 👍 OF 309
About This Game

Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.

REL Apr 21, 2022 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Powder Toy

98% 👍 OF 3.0K
About This Game

The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Mix Particle Materials
  • …Test Physics Reactions
  • …Build Reactors and Circuits
REL Jun 14, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Crawling Angels

97% 👍 OF 219
About This Game

Smash and thrash the mysterious Forever Chicken, a living ragdoll at the heart of a frightful Midnight Carnival. Uncle Tontine insists you can leave whenever you desire, yet no child has ever gone home. Will you be the first?

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Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

87% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Plan Interplanetary Flights
  • …Mine Asteroid Resources
  • …Build Offworld Colonies
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Bright Lights of Svetlov

93% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Switch Family Perspectives
  • …Do Soviet Housework
  • …Repair a Family Flat
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Dark Fracture: Prologue

84% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore a Body Farm
  • …Manage Edward’s Sanity
  • …Search for Medication
REL Aug 25, 2020 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Looker

97% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …turn a familiar maze panel into a first-person shooter sequence, then finish it like an arcade challenge.
  • …reach a final puzzle that ends the whole game as a single escalating punchline.
  • …play a sudden Snake-style arcade segment in the middle of the puzzle island.
REL Jun 17, 2022 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Near Death

91% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …restore power room by room, then watch frozen sections literally defrost and become usable again.
  • …drop rope poles and light poles in a whiteout, then use them to sprint between buildings when the wind starts spinning you around.
  • …find "safe" rooms that still freeze you until you board up broken windows and patch damaged walls.
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ENA: Dream BBQ

98% 👍 OF 37K
About This Game

Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use a fully implemented bathroom mechanic.
  • …deliver an absurd requested item and watch the "reward" be something like a middle finger or someone blasting off into the sky.
  • …talk to most NPCs again and again to unlock extra hidden lines.
REL Mar 26, 2025 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Dreamcore

89% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Navigate Pool Mazes
  • …Explore Silent Playrooms
  • …Cross Looping Suburbs