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Games like Tile Miner

If Tile Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Core Keeper, Cosmorists and Wonderia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its infinite explorable terrain, challenging and cozy. 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.

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About Tile Miner: Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!

2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby nalothchris, swanee734
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Players who liked Tile Miner also play

Steam players who put hours into Tile 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.

  1. Core Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Tile Miner.

    Top pick for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cosmorists

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Wonderia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tile Miner.

    Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

    2026AdventureSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  4. The Infected

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tile Miner.

    Ranked #4 for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Return from Core

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure10.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Pathless Woods

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Tile Miner.

    Ranked #6 for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. My Time at Sandrock

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Tile Miner.

    Ranked #7 for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. My Time at Portia

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Tile Miner.

    Ranked #8 for Tile Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Tile Miner

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.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tile Miner.

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tile Miner.

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Project Explore

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Tile Miner.

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Rust

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Edge of Space

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tile Miner.

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Keplerth

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tile Miner.

    Reviewers of Tile Miner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tile Miner at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tile Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tile Miner.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tile Miner.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tile Miner.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tile Miner

Does Tile Miner run on Steam Deck?
Tile Miner is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Tile Miner cost?
Tile Miner is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Tile Miner?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tile Miner are Core Keeper, Cosmorists, Wonderia.
Who developed Tile Miner?
Tile Miner was developed by nalothchris, swanee734 and published by MadSwan.

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 Tile Miner.

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