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Games like The Long Mine

If The Long Mine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drillbound, Deepcore Mining and Meltopia — 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 The Long Mine: Explore claustrophobic caves, crawl through tight spaces, mine valuable minerals, upgrade your tools, and unlock perks as you level up.

IndieSimulationCasualWindowsby Cold Lynx
The Long Mine — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Long Mine also play

Steam players who put hours into The Long Mine 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. Drillbound

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Deepcore Mining

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    Mine rare ores on a distant planet and sell them to fill your corporate quota. Use your profits to buy upgrades. But beware: the deeper you dig, the greater the dangers waiting in the dark.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Meltopia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation4.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dirty Jobs Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    Be ready to get your hands really dirty. In this game you will have to do things that others find too disgusting. Sewage, excrements and blood are just a few examples of what awaits you. You need to be careful or else you will catch an infection. Staying in the hospital means the end of work.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Keep Digging

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. A Game About Digging A Hole™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Long Mine.

    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!

    2025IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Demolish & Build 2018

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.

    2018IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Long Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    The premier first-person destructive house cat simulator is back with a vengeance! Play as a mischievous cat, swat your human's possessions onto the floor, scratch up curtains, smash precious keepsakes, and show your owner who's boss.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Long Mine.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Long Mine.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Long Mine.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Long Mine.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Mine.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 The Long Mine.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Long Mine

What games are most similar to The Long Mine?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Mine are Drillbound, Deepcore Mining, Meltopia.
Who developed The Long Mine?
The Long Mine was developed by Cold Lynx.

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 Mine.

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