Best Mining Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated mining games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Mining games on Steam.

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Automation Empire Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019
Astrox Imperium Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Mar 2019
Islet Online Islet Online is a sandbox-style MMORPG. It is all about digging and placing bricks to build your own land. And with various materials from wildlife, bricks can be combined to make useful items, too. Whenever you act, your character gets experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Feb 2019
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!

Price -87% 4.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Jan 2019
Cave Digger VR Cave Digger VR is a virtual reality mining game in an alternative western setting. Gear up with numerous unique tools and explore the town and the depths of the mountain. Discover secrets, easter eggs and multiple endings!

Price 19.90€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 May 2018
cyubeVR Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Jan 2018
Total Miner Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Dec 2017
PickCrafter Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Dec 2017
Stationeers Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Dec 2017
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!

Price -75% 3.24€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Dec 2017
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.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Oct 2017
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.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Sep 2017
Exoplanet: First Contact Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.

Price -35% 12.68€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Dec 2016
BoomTown! Deluxe An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.

Price -87% 0.13€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2016
Turmoil 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.

Price -95% 0.71€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jun 2016
World's Dawn Bring life back to a sleepy seaside village by building friendships, finding love, harvesting crops, tending livestock, competing in festivals, fishing, mining, discovering magical secrets and more!

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Jan 2016
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 30 Nov 2015
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.

Price -51% 6.45€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Nov 2015
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.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
Rising World Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Price -33% 10.04€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
Super Motherload Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.

Price -5% 14.13€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2014
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.

Price -93% 0.71€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Dec 2013
Dwarfs - F2P Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Oct 2012
Dwarfs!? Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!

Price -98% 0.17€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 May 2011