Games like Drill Core
If Drill Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom: New Lands, Against the Storm and Kingdom Eighties — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and immersive. 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 →About Drill Core: Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Players who liked Drill Core also play
Steam players who put hours into Drill Core 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.
Kingdom: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a tense mood with Drill Core.
Top pick for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and a whimsical mood with Drill Core.
Second-strongest match for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Kingdom Eighties
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and resource management with Drill Core.
Third-strongest match for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drill Core.
Ranked #4 for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Landnama
WHY THIS
Shares base building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a contemplative mood with Drill Core.
Ranked #5 for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Scorchlands
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Drill Core.
Ranked #6 for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Tower Factory
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management, strategy and a whimsical mood with Drill Core.
Ranked #7 for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drill Core.
Ranked #8 for Drill Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Drill Core
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The King is Watching
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, roguelite and a tense mood with Drill Core.
Reviewers of Drill Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drill Core.
Reviewers of Drill Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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.
Dome Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Drill Core.
Reviewers of Drill Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
Wall World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Drill Core.
Reviewers of Drill Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
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?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Drill Core at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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 Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
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 Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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 Drill Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill Core.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kingdom: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a tense mood with Drill Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and a whimsical mood with Drill Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Kingdom Eighties
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and resource management with Drill Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Landnama
WHY THIS
Shares base building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a contemplative mood with Drill Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Drill Core.
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drill Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Core.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Frequently asked about Drill Core
- Is Drill Core verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Drill Core 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 Drill Core cost?
- Drill Core is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Drill Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drill Core are Kingdom: New Lands, Against the Storm, Kingdom Eighties.
- Who developed Drill Core?
- Drill Core was developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Drill Core.
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