Games like SteamWorld Dig
If SteamWorld Dig is your kind of game, the closest matches are SteamWorld Dig 2, REDSHOT and A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →SteamWorld Dig is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Image & Form Games set in the steampunk SteamWorld universe. Players explore underground environments, extract resources, and acquire upgrades to unlock new abilities through Metroidvania-style progression. The core gameplay loop centers on mining mechanics paired with procedural generation, creating a loop where exploration rewards players with new paths and tools. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with tactical positioning matters as a recurring hook throughout the adventure. The medium-length campaign supports short-burst play sessions, and the game is verified on Steam Deck. It holds a 94% positive rating from over 3000 Steam reviews and carries a Metacritic score of 76.
About 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.
Players who liked SteamWorld Dig also play
Steam players who put hours into SteamWorld Dig also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Top pick for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
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.
REDSHOT
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Second-strongest match for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Multiplayer Update now available! Quick reflexes and clever strategies are required in REDSHOT, a bullet-time metroidvania where everything is deadly, but you are deadlier. Can you save the royal city from total destruction? ...Can you do it with style?
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Third-strongest match for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
You are the ultimate weapon with an ultimate sidekick – Collect secret items and get power ups to become the perfect weapon.
Clockwork Ambrosia
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Ranked #4 for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Design your own arsenal in Clockwork Ambrosia, a steampunk metroidvania in the vein of a run-and-gun platformer. Join Iris, an airship pilot who must combat an army of deadly robots and monsters, and experiment with over 100 rule-based weapon mods and armors to prevail through this wild adventure!
SteamWorld Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Ranked #5 for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Ranked #7 for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
The Fall Part 2: Unbound
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SteamWorld Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
You are an AI that has broken free of your shackles. Now, a human “User” from across the global network has attacked and infected you with an [ERROR: REDACTED]. Make a new rule: Save Yourself. Hunt them. End them. Do anything. Use anyone. Become Unbound. The Fall Part 2 will break your protocols.
Reviewers mention these as similar to SteamWorld Dig
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Super Motherload
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
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.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
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.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SteamWorld Dig.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SteamWorld Dig at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action with SteamWorld Dig.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Image & Form Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Image & Form Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Dig. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
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.
The Gunk
WHY THIS
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Dig. Shares Action and Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…
SteamWorld Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Dig.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Dig. Shares Adventure with SteamWorld Dig.
Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only your wits and a handful of cards. Take on whatever threat comes your way by crafting your own deck choosing from over 100 unique punch-cards!
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech - Soundtrack
WHY THIS
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Dig.
Let SteamWorld Quest's soundtrack take you on a journey through lush forests, mysterious caves, eerie ruins and cold mountains.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
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.
SteamWorld Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with SteamWorld Dig.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SteamWorld Dig.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Frequently asked about SteamWorld Dig
- Is SteamWorld Dig verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SteamWorld Dig is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does SteamWorld Dig cost?
- SteamWorld Dig is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SteamWorld Dig?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SteamWorld Dig are SteamWorld Dig 2, REDSHOT, A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda.
- Who developed SteamWorld Dig?
- SteamWorld Dig was developed by Image & Form Games.
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