The Mining Zone
Games about digging, extracting resources, tunneling, prospecting, or underground work.
Latest Standouts
Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.
Artillery Miner - An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!
Sep 9, 2026
Between Adventures IDLE - A visual Idle RPG where you hunt creatures for rare loot, enchant your equipment, and build your hero. Master 11 skills, trade with merchants, and progress even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.
Sep 8, 2026
Zad Archery - Shoot down waves of targets, collect their loot, and grow stronger through upgrades and skills in this expanding incremental game.
Sep 1, 2026
Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator - Trade horses, formulate feed, and breed generations of elite stallions, racehorses, draft mounts, war horses, and more. Train, auction, mine, forge, farm, run caravans, build a mercenary force, and deal with powerful lords. Dominate the medieval horse trade.
Aug 17, 2026
Kin and Conquest - An incremental / idle action adventure game where you must battle foes, mine rocks, defeat bosses, and grow stronger in your quest to conquer the mountain and defeat the Evil Geomancer.
Aug 3, 2026
Wonderia - Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Jul 22, 2026
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Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.
Prodigal - Journey through a vibrant world fighting vicious monsters, exploring puzzling dungeons, and collecting magical artifacts. Unravel the mysteries of Vann's Point and bond with all of its curious townsfolk!
Oct 15, 2020
CryoFall - CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Apr 29, 2021
Space Colony: Steam Edition - Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
Apr 30, 2015
Ad Fundum - Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Jun 13, 2024
Wall World - Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Apr 5, 2023
SteamWorld Dig 2 - SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Sep 22, 2017
FortressCraft Evolved! - FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Nov 9, 2015
Gold Mining Simulator - Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Oct 13, 2017
Cattails: Wildwood Story - Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
Oct 20, 2023
My Time at Portia - Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Jan 15, 2019
Cattails | Become a Cat! - Become a cat! Cattails is a unique animal simulation RPG. Hunt for food, fight invading cats, explore to gather herbs, and socialize with other cats in an expansive open world. Get married and raise a family of kittens, befriend your neighbors, and learn to live in the dangerous wilderness!
Dec 1, 2017
SteamWorld Dig - SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Dec 5, 2013
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
Digseum - Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!
Dec 9, 2024
Space Rock Breaker - Space Rock Breaker is a short incremental game about mining asteroids in space. Mine asteroids with guns, unlock new materials, process the ore by dropping it into a Plinko machine, and spend your credits on upgrades in a massive skill tree.
Dec 19, 2025
MineMogul - Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Dec 4, 2025
(the) Gnorp Apologue - (the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Dec 14, 2023
AETHUS - Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Mar 6, 2026
The Last Cat in the Universe - Gather the remains of a dying space station to build a cozy home for the last cat in the universe. A short, narrative-driven incremental game about finding peace in the face of darkness
Apr 23, 2026
Aground - As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Apr 17, 2020
