Games like Chipmatic
If Chipmatic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pup & Mole: Gold Rush, MINERALS: Deep Core Mining and Another Game About Digging A Hole — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its automation queues simplify crafting, atmospheric and chill. 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 Chipmatic: Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!
Players who liked Chipmatic also play
Steam players who put hours into Chipmatic 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.
Pup & Mole: Gold Rush
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
Join Pup & Mole on a cozy mining adventure across 7 historical areas. Hop into your minecart, build rail tracks, and dig deeper for hidden artifacts. Upgrade your gear, unlock new tools, and complete your collection while earning money by selling gold and rare treasures.
MINERALS: Deep Core Mining
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
Mine the vast underground and collect ores and gemstones—collect! collect! collect like crazy! “MINERALS: Deep Core Mining” is an over-the-top mining game with roguelite elements. Use the resources you gather to upgrade your abilities and take on an endless underground that changes with every run!
Another Game About Digging A Hole
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
A game about digging in the mines of an unknown and unclaimed planet. Collect resources, sell them and upgrade your equipment - discover all available resources!
Dig Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
Dig Inc. is a game about managing your mining company. Mine for resources in a procedurally generated map, fill your increasing daily quotas, and sell ores raw, or set up production between runs to refine them for higher profits. Invest your earnings into a growing talent tree.
DigWorld
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Chipmatic.
DigWorld is a cozy 2D digging extraction sandbox with roguelite elements, where each run is a race against the clock to get the best rewards. Collect as many items as you can before time runs out. Sell. Upgrade. Repeat.
Mining Miner
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
There is ore under your feet and that is a problem, because it is not in your pocket yet. Dig, sell, upgrade, hire auto-miners, keep digging.
Exovia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chipmatic.
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system, resource management, mining and an atmospheric mood with Chipmatic.
Ranked #8 for Chipmatic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
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?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Chipmatic
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Super Motherload
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system and a chill mood with Chipmatic.
Reviewers of Chipmatic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Chipmatic.
Reviewers of Chipmatic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Aground
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a chill mood with Chipmatic.
Reviewers of Chipmatic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system, resource management, mining and an atmospheric mood with Chipmatic.
Reviewers of Chipmatic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
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?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chipmatic at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
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 Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Chipmatic.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
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 Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
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 Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chipmatic.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
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 ~58% under Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chipmatic.
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 ~75% under Chipmatic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chipmatic.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chipmatic.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chipmatic.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chipmatic.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chipmatic.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Molter
Other recommendable Steam games by Molter, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Minutescape
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree progression, upgrade system, grindy and a stressful mood with Chipmatic.
Another title from Molter, the studio behind Chipmatic. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chipmatic.
Dodge bullets and upgrade yourself in Minutescape, a retro-inspired incremental game that keeps unfolding. Unlock new abilities and keep upgrading yourself to survive for 5 consecutive minutes.
Polimines
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chipmatic.
Another title from Molter, the studio behind Chipmatic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
Polimines is a challenging logic game that brings together mechanics from Nonograms and Minesweeper. Solve increasingly difficult hand-designed levels in this puzzle game where guessing is never required.
Polimines 2
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, retro and an atmospheric mood with Chipmatic.
Another title from Molter, the studio behind Chipmatic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chipmatic.
Polimines 2 is the sequel to Polimines, a challenging logic game that combines Nonograms and Minesweeper mechanics. All levels are designed by hand so that guessing is never necessary.
Frequently asked about Chipmatic
- Is Chipmatic verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Chipmatic 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 Chipmatic cost?
- Chipmatic is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chipmatic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chipmatic are Pup & Mole: Gold Rush, MINERALS: Deep Core Mining, Another Game About Digging A Hole.
- Who developed Chipmatic?
- Chipmatic was developed by Molter and published by Molter, SpaceJazz.
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 Chipmatic.
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