Co-op games like Mining Company
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Mining Company, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
- 1
Pipe or Die
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A co-op horror game for up to 6 players. Place pipes, build a factory, and make rent... or die.
- 2
They Are Lost
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A co-op horror about rescue missions after doomsday. You are paid to bring the lost home. Not all of you will come back.
- 3
The Forest
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
- 4
AsHes
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
This horror game inspired by Chinese folklore offers an enthralling journey through the depths of the Underworld. As you delve deeper, you'll unravel hidden secrets veiled in the darkness.
- 5
Backrooms Media
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
- 6
Lethal Company
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
- 7
Subnautica 2
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Mining Company.
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
- 8
Sketchy's Contract
Online Co-op alternative to Mining Company — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.