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Games like Dust & Diamonds

If Dust & Diamonds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Apocalypse Factory, Copacetic and NationForge — 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.

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About Dust & Diamonds: Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasualEarly AccessWindowsby SAD Games Studio
Dust & Diamonds — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Dust & Diamonds 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. Apocalypse Factory

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly Access8.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Copacetic

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.

    StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. NationForge

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dust & Diamonds.

    A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. 夯犇绿色传奇

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    Benben Green Legend is a Chinese pastoral idle management casual game, featuring laid-back integrated gameplay of farmland reclamation, store operation and waterway trade, allowing you to build your exclusive Jiangnan countryside manor at your own pace.

    StrategySimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. RAILGRADE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Wild West Miner Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    You've become the major of a town that... doesn't exist. Nobody lives here, the governor's stupid joke. It's time to get to work and turn this NOWHERE into a bustling metropolis. Mine coal, ore, and gold. Build houses, find oil, bring in new residents, create a paradise in the middle of nowhere.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. Automation Empire

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dust & Diamonds.

    Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dust & Diamonds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dust & Diamonds.

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dust & Diamonds.

    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 ↗
  2. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Dust & Diamonds.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dust & Diamonds.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dust & Diamonds.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Tukoni: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.

    2020IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dust & Diamonds

What games are most similar to Dust & Diamonds?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dust & Diamonds are Apocalypse Factory, Copacetic, NationForge.
Who developed Dust & Diamonds?
Dust & Diamonds was developed by SAD Games Studio.

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 Dust & Diamonds.

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