Games like Below the Crust
If Below the Crust is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker, Orebits and Glorpnauts — 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 Below the Crust: Below the Crust is an incremental mining game about digging through layered planetary crusts, optimizing efficiency, and steadily progressing deeper over time.
Players who liked Below the Crust also play
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Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
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Top pick for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Below the Crust.
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to make more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.
Orebits
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Second-strongest match for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crust.
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a roguelite tech tree, discover gravitational anomalies, and deliver resources back to Earth. Upgrade and explore space to discover what secrets it holds!
Glorpnauts
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Third-strongest match for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crust.
Build it. Automate it. Watch it grow! Glorpnauts is a space incremental where you mine asteroids, expand your fleet, build an automated economy and defend it from pirates. Prestige for permanent upgrades, explore new star systems and turn a tiny base into a thriving space operation.
Aeons Odyssey
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Ranked #4 for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Below the Crust.
An idle management game where you craft equipment, found colonies, collect ships and manage an interstellar economy with fellow captains online. Your autopilot will do the tedious work of scanning planets, you focus on decisions. Includes an optional companion mode to keep track of your progress.
Astral Outpost
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Ranked #5 for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Below the Crust.
Build stations above picky planets, match modules to what the locals actually want, and grow a trade empire that earns while you're away. Court the factions or cross them on the road from your first rattling fusion can to a megastructure that tames a black hole.
Project: C.E.L.L.
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Ranked #6 for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crust.
An arcade incremental where you run cellular simulations for a megacorp obsessed with immortality. Break glucose, build combos, and spend ATP across a massive skill tree. Experiment with different glucose types, proteins, and lipids from your retro terminal.
Cosmic Clicker
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Ranked #7 for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Below the Crust.
Build a cosmic energy empire in this colorful incremental sci-fi game. Click, automate production, unlock technologies, explore distant planets, collect artifacts, raise cosmic pets, and ascend to unlock permanent upgrades.
Constellation Clicker
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Ranked #8 for Below the Crust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crust.
Build an interstellar economy one click at a time. Claim resource-rich stars, connect profitable routes, construct specialized industries, mine materials and sell them on the galactic market, and unlock technologies that transform a dark nebula into a vast production network.
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. Shares Indie with Below the Crust.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crust.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crust.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Below the Crust.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crust.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Below the Crust.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Below the Crust.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crust.
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.
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Frequently asked about Below the Crust
- What games are most similar to Below the Crust?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Below the Crust are Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker, Orebits, Glorpnauts.
- Who developed Below the Crust?
- Below the Crust was developed by Be Water.
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 Below the Crust.
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