Games like The Long Way Down
If The Long Way Down is your kind of game, the closest matches are DRILLMASTER 9000, Dig For Riches and Digging A Hole In Ice With A Chainsaw — 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 The Long Way Down: THE LONG WAY DOWN is a first-person digging action game where you carve your own tunnels, mine valuable minerals, find unique items, and sell your finds to fund upgrades. Drill for oil, refine it into fuel, and keep pushing deeper. The deeper you go, the more demons you have to fight.
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DRILLMASTER 9000
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Top pick for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
Dig, collect resources, upgrade your drill and multitool, go deep underground and find a powerful shiny object.
Dig For Riches
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Way Down.
Dig For Riches is a realistic mining simulation. Dig the earth, extract valuable minerals, haul them to the surface by cart and sell them. Use your earnings to upgrade your equipment, dig deeper, and face increasing dangers.
Digging A Hole In Ice With A Chainsaw
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Long Way Down.
Trapped in a pit with a chainsaw, you dig down through the ice, sell what you haul up, and buy upgrades and dynamite to go deeper, faster.
ONE GIANT HOLE
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Ranked #4 for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
Humanity teams up to dig BILLIONS of VOXELS to create the world’s biggest hole—together. Every swing makes this giant hole bigger! Obtain resources, upgrade your pickaxe, and chat with others using text or voice! Dig this giant shared hole with friends, strangers, or solo!
DIG
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Ranked #5 for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Long Way Down.
Dig, discover, and compete in this digging hole adventure! Unearth rare treasures, sell your findings, upgrade your gear, expand holes uncover hidden secrets beneath the surface. Who will dig the deepest?
A Game About Digging A Hole™
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Ranked #6 for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Mining My Own Business
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Ranked #7 for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?
No Man's Mines
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Ranked #8 for The Long Way Down fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Way Down.
Dig into fully destructible spherical planets and carve real caves from crust to molten core. Mine rare minerals, refine ore, and upgrade your suit and ship. Travel between worlds and fight pirates in open space. How deep can you go before your oxygen runs out?
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Way Down.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Way Down.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Way Down.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Way Down.
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 The Long Way Down.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Long Way Down.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Long Way Down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about The Long Way Down
- What games are most similar to The Long Way Down?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Way Down are DRILLMASTER 9000, Dig For Riches, Digging A Hole In Ice With A Chainsaw.
- Who developed The Long Way Down?
- The Long Way Down was developed by GoldtisticGames.
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 The Long Way Down.
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