Games like Ship Miner
If Ship Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dome Keeper, Gold Miner:Classic Edition and Star Gun — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Ship Miner: Action mining game with retro aesthetics and roguelike elements. Collect minerals from procedurally generated asteroids, improve your ship and survive The Anomaly, an unknown entity threatening The Galaxy. Can a simple miner stop The Anomaly and save everyone?
Players who liked Ship Miner also play
Steam players who put hours into Ship Miner 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.
Dome Keeper
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Top pick for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
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!
Gold Miner:Classic Edition
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Second-strongest match for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
A classic arcade mining game where you dig for gold, collect treasure, dodge hazards, and upgrade your gear across multiple modes and levels.
Star Gun
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Third-strongest match for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Star Gun is a fast-paced, auto-scrolling space shooter with RPG-style progression. Unlock unique ships and equipment, build powerful loadouts, and master skill-based combat as you blast through an unpredictable galaxy—solo or in local co-op.
Space Scavenger 2
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Ranked #4 for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Ship Miner.
A fast-paced, top-down action roguelite about building outlandish modular spaceships and discovering broken synergies. Scavenge resources, craft absurd builds, and hone your abilities in a paradoxical time loop.
Vortica
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Ranked #5 for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Vortica is a 2D action roguelite set in a solar system overrun by hostile aliens. Suit up, loot up, and shoot up as you battle against enemy hordes, explore derelict outposts, and hunt giant bosses. Each mission gets you one step closer to returning to Earth and saving the human race.
Ocean Keeper Co-op Drill Multiplayer
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Ranked #6 for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Dive into the Ocean Keeper – a cooperative roguelike where four survival miners defend their Mech Spider, fight with endless hordes of monsters, and dig for resources. Team up with your friends, upgrade between waves, and survive the deep caves, full of treasures… if you can.
Deep Space Exploitation
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Ranked #7 for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
CRYPTARK
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Ranked #8 for Ship Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dome Keeper
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
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!
Deep Space Exploitation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Ship Miner.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Frequently asked about Ship Miner
- Does Ship Miner have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ship Miner supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ship Miner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ship Miner are Dome Keeper, Gold Miner:Classic Edition, Star Gun.
- Who developed Ship Miner?
- Ship Miner was developed by Pixel Core Games.
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