Best Mining Games on Steam
Games about digging, extracting resources, tunneling, prospecting, or underground work.
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1Muck - Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Jun 5, 2021
In this game, you can…
- get chased across the island by a giant golem, scramble to craft a bow mid-pursuit, then have more golems spawn until you're fighting two, then five, plus their minions.
- play a versus mode where the world border shrinks, forcing survivors into an inevitable endgame showdown.
- build towering bases into the sky until the world starts failing to load correctly.
- survive nightly sieges as enemies pour out of the dark and keep coming until you're dead or the sun rises.
- crack open chests for random powerups that stack into absurd speed, double-jumps, damage, and knockback.
- race the short day-night cycle by sprinting for resources all day, then hunkering down as each night spawns tougher waves.
- have a teammate accidentally summon a night boss and turn a normal run into a full group emergency.
- trigger an altar, instantly spawn aggressive golems, and watch exploration flip into a fight you didn't plan for.
- stack enough upgrades to become effectively unkillable for dozens of days, turning early desperation into a late-game power trip.
2My 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
In this game, you can…
- build the town's fast-travel network by placing Dee-Dee stops yourself, and watch other workshops put their own stops around town too.
- scan ancient ruins for buried relics, dig your own tunnels, find secret rooms with chests, and assemble artifact pieces into museum donations.
- rebuild a whole town by taking builder commissions that permanently add bridges, elevators, street lights, and new routes.
- hand-assemble big inventions at an assembly station by slotting crafted parts together until the full machine or structure takes shape.
- go on real dates and playdates with townsfolk, then bring them into dungeons as companions and get new quests from a spouse.
- turn your workshop into an automated factory where machines make parts that feed other machines in a full production line.
- ride around on mounts like horses and llamas, including a sunglasses-wearing alpaca/llama you can actually use as transportation.
3Mr.Mine - Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Sep 30, 2020
In this game, you can…
- meet a blueprint-selling golem vendor 50km underground.
- hit a turning point around km 300 where the mine becomes a monster-fight zone and you manually click enemies down to protect survivors.
- reach absurd depths over months of play, like pushing past the mantle and eventually drilling down into hell.
- send scientists on relic expeditions, then revive them with rare tickets if a danger roll kills them.
- send drones into timed caves for loot, spend a ticket to add 30 more minutes, then gear relics around drone fuel to squeeze in extra runs.
- click individual miners to get unique comments, including fairy-tale references and workplace-complaint jokes.
- dig up treasure chests that only stick around a few minutes, then crack them open for random drops like timelapses, scientists, and hidden upgrades before they vanish.
4Melvor Idle - Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
Nov 18, 2021
In this game, you can…
- leave a skill running overnight and come back to thousands of logs.
- start leveling one skill, then end up fighting giants just to keep your astrology plan moving.
- chain summons into everything: make ent summons, catch jewels while fishing, cook the fish, then turn bad meals into pig summons that level more skills and earn money.
- fish for days to buy more inventory slots, then use the space to power every other grind.
- auto-battle monsters but manually eat to stay alive until you unlock upgrades that let combat truly idle.
- unlock cartography that slowly reveals new map locations, then tie archaeology finds to those discoveries for rare rewards.
- turn a tiny plan into a full production web: mine ore, smelt bars, craft gear, stock food and ammo, then push deeper into bosses.
- play an entire idle RPG without any reset system, so every hour stays permanent progress.
5Turmoil - Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Jun 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- bribe officials or oil companies to lock in a price or dodge spillage fines, turning illegal deals into a real part of your strategy
- fight a stock/share auction against rival tycoons until someone buys a majority and becomes mayor
- chain natural gas boosts into your wells to shove oil upward faster, then scramble to avoid overloading the system and spilling
- lease land at a town auction, send out dowsers, drop a rig, and find out the hard way whether you hit a rich pocket or nothing
- use a trained mole to tunnel through the underground map and reveal hidden territory when oil is deep or blocked by rock
- watch two buyers' prices swing up and down, then decide whether to sell now or stockpile oil in silos for a better spike
- build a pipe network where one skinny bottleneck can slow the entire flow, forcing you to reroute and redesign mid-extraction
6Wall 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
In this game, you can…
- pilot a mobile spider base that fights while you relocate, letting you dodge fire and crush enemies underfoot.
- hit a timer where a huge tentacled monster shows up, and surviving it buys you another stretch to keep mining.
- leave a mine mid-wave and climb to a different biome for better resources, gambling safety now against upgrades later.
- climb a giant wall and pick which procedurally generated mine to crack open next.
- rush deep into a cave for ore, then sprint back to your robospider base before the attack starts.
- find buried blueprints that unlock entirely new gear systems like turrets, drones, repair stations, and harvesters.
- pull wildly different weapons in a run—homing missiles, grenade launchers, plasma guns, mortars—that can rewrite how you fight.
- drill through rock, vacuum up ore, and stumble into branching caverns with hidden pockets stuffed with loot and tech.
7Captain of Industry - Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
May 31, 2022
In this game, you can…
- dig up hills with excavators, then dump the spoil into the sea to reclaim land.
- launch rockets, build a space station, then capture asteroids to restock your island with resources you already mined out.
- pump crude oil into tanks, run multi-stage distillation, then keep the whole refinery moving by routing every byproduct somewhere useful.
- carve a giant open-pit mine, then turn the leftover hole into flat building ground.
- build a steam power setup with turbines, high- and low-pressure loops, and flywheels, then replace your fuel generators with it.
- plan an entire factory in blueprint mode, copy-paste whole modules, then watch trucks deliver parts and assemble it piece by piece.
- send your ship out to discover new islands, trade for resources, rescue refugees, and set up imports after your home deposits run out.
- repair and upgrade a ship to extend its range, manage its fuel limits, dodge pirates, then have it return days later loaded with trade goods.
8SteamWorld 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
In this game, you can…
- carve your own tunnels and have the mine stay permanently changed, so your route back up depends on what you dug.
- use dynamite and falling rocks as weapons, collapsing boulders to crush enemies while you keep digging.
- place a teleporter exactly once, locking in a permanent return point that can save future expeditions or strand you if you choose wrong.
- dig down with a pickaxe, haul ore back to town, sell it, and buy upgrades that let you dig faster and go deeper.
- find hidden caves and puzzle rooms that hand you new abilities like double jump, sprinting, or a full-on drill.
- push deeper until your light and inventory run low, then sprint back through your own shafts before darkness swallows the run.
- spot a rare ore chunk over acid or a huge drop, plan a safe approach, grab it, and fund your next major upgrade.
- get a drill that chews through rock using water, turning slow chipping into fast tunnel-boring that opens new pockets and shortcuts.
9(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
In this game, you can…
- start by punching a rock, then escalate to arrows, rifles, napalm, robots, lasers, and nukes.
- snowball from a few shards into untold millions of shards flying around the screen as your operation scales up.
- unlock a speedrun mode after finishing, then replay the whole incremental loop as a timed challenge.
- watch a swarm of tiny gnorps swarm a rock and keep working while you stack upgrades until the whole screen turns into a shard-spewing machine.
- restart runs to spend talent points and try a completely different build that changes how your gnorps break and collect.
- feed runners to power rockets while mountaineers farm shards, turning one run into a specific production chain built around more rockets.
- hit a hidden visual toggle that flips the presentation into an intense alternate look.
10UnderMine - An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
Aug 6, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack relics, potions, blessings, prayers, and curses until one run turns you into a ridiculous overpowered build.
- blow open walls with bombs, uncover hidden rooms, and accidentally find secret paths that lead to whole extra floors or bosses.
- watch little thieves crawl out of the walls and try to steal the gold you just mined mid-fight.
- throw your pickaxe like a boomerang for ranged attacks, then upgrade it to snag gold from a distance.
- take a powerful shrine reward now, then eat a brutal curse that reshapes the rest of your run.
- die with a pocketful of gold, keep the money, and spend it on permanent upgrades back at your hub town.
- level up a pet each run until it's doing most of your boss damage while you focus on surviving.
- rescue NPCs to fill your empty hub with smiths, potion makers, vendors, and other helpers who upgrade your future runs.
