Games like Planet Driller
If Planet Driller is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Operation Octo and MouseCraft — 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 Planet Driller: Planet Driller is a mining game where you need to find DarkMatter in order to save the earth. To do this, drill your way through a procedurally generated planet full of minerals that you can sell for cash, then use the cash to upgrade your ship and make the job a lot easier!
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Steam players who put hours into Planet Driller 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.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
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Top pick for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Operation Octo
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Second-strongest match for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Play as an Octopus scientist fighting off sunken skeletons in this frantic aquatic Tower Defense! Discover sea life turrets from unique biomes: Pistol Shrimp! Navy Seal! Death Ray! Deploy turrets whilst dodging enemy bullets as you venture the seven seas!
MouseCraft
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Third-strongest match for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is an A to B puzzle game where players help Schrödinger, the crazy cat scientist, in completing his mysterious, mice-powered invention.
Bloodsports.TV
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Ranked #4 for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.
Notes of Soul
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Ranked #5 for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
The gleaning club is an immersive game experience hall, where you can participate in the script arranged according to the story by role playing. Or learn folk knowledge and taste strange culture, or realize the sad but warm past of the protagonist of the story.
Doll Impostor
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Ranked #6 for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Doll Impostor is a horror game where 1-4 players take on the role of guardians of possessed dolls. Work together to identify the impostor doll before 9 a.m, or face dire consequences. Every hour counts in this tense, fear-filled race against time.
Bardbarian
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Ranked #7 for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
You play as Brad the barbarian, who is awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is different though; Brad has grown tired of fighting all the time. The usual grind for XP has grown dull, and he has decided to pursue his dreams of making music instead of shedding blood.
Marble Skies
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Ranked #8 for Planet Driller fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
Marble Skies is a fast paced 3D-platformer where you control your marble through various levels and try to get the best time for each one. Complete all the levels in your own time, or challenge your friends to get on top of the leaderboards!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet Driller at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under Planet Driller on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Planet Driller.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Planet Driller on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Driller.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Planet Driller on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Planet Driller.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Planet Driller on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Driller.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Planet Driller on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Driller.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Planet Driller.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Driller.
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 Lab
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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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Driller.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Planet Driller.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Driller.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Sprout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planet Driller.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
erdetspill
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Driller.
Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.
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Frequently asked about Planet Driller
- Does Planet Driller run on Steam Deck?
- Planet Driller 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 Planet Driller cost?
- Planet Driller is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planet Driller?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Driller are Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Operation Octo, MouseCraft.
- Who developed Planet Driller?
- Planet Driller was developed by Oryzhon Studios and published by Immanitas Entertainment GmbH.
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