Games like Planet Miners
If Planet Miners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Valor, Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game and Ad Fundum — 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 Planet Miners: Control a mining robot and dig for mineral resources on various planets. Transport the valuable ores with your spaceship. Buy or craft upgrades to improve your tools. Defend yourself against the dangers of each planet to mine even the most valuable treasures!
Players who liked Planet Miners also play
Steam players who put hours into Planet Miners 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.
Star Valor
WHY THIS
Top pick for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
In this 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure, you can mine, craft and fight your way through an almost endless universe full of procedurally generated planets.
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Zerium War: Destiny
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Battle through waves of invaders in Zerium War: Destiny, a sci-fi Roguelite RPG. As Earth's core guardian, wield auto-shooting skills to grow stronger. Face random challenges and gear up for each victory.
Miner: Dig Deep
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.
Super Motherload
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
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.
Super Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Meltopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Planet Miners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet Miners at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miners.
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 ~58% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Action with Planet Miners.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Action with Planet Miners.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miners.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miners.
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 ~58% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miners.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Planet Miners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
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?
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
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.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
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?
Warframe
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Planet Miners.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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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.
Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
In this 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure, you can mine, craft and fight your way through an almost endless universe full of procedurally generated planets.
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Super Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Frequently asked about Planet Miners
- How much does Planet Miners cost?
- Planet Miners is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planet Miners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Miners are Star Valor, Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game, Ad Fundum.
- Who developed Planet Miners?
- Planet Miners was developed by Moon Ice Games.
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