Games like Cobalt Miner
If Cobalt Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Industronaut, MORS and DISTANT VISITANT — 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 Cobalt Miner: Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
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Steam players who put hours into Cobalt Miner 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.
Industronaut
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
MORS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
DISTANT VISITANT
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
The Risen Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
A multiplayer open-world survival game featuring intense PvP, base building, crafting, raiding, and relentless zombies. Gather resources, expand your base, fight for valuable loot, and compete with other players in a persistent online world
Skyreap
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
You are the power of runes, shaping worlds. Gather resources and find pedestals to build, craft, and transform islands - until the forgotten archipelago gains a new soul.
The Last Caretaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
AETHUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cobalt Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cobalt Miner at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cobalt Miner.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~71% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cobalt Miner.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cobalt Miner.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Cobalt Miner on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cobalt Miner.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cobalt Miner.
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 Cobalt Miner.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cobalt Miner.
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 Cobalt Miner.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt Miner.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Cobalt Miner
- Does Cobalt Miner run on Steam Deck?
- Cobalt Miner is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cobalt Miner cost?
- Cobalt Miner is listed on Steam at 5.09 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cobalt Miner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cobalt Miner are Industronaut, MORS, DISTANT VISITANT.
- Who developed Cobalt Miner?
- Cobalt Miner was developed by Digital Deer Studio and published by MadOctopus.
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 Cobalt Miner.
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