Games like Mining Mike
If Mining Mike is your kind of game, the closest matches are Destropolis, Hordeguard: Winds of the North and TANK ZERO — 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 Mining Mike: Mikey Minerals owes the Shimigu Mining Corporation TRILLIONS in college debt. His sentence: the remote planet Dirt. Strap into a mech-themed roguelike mining tower defense survivor. Battle hordes, build a base, MINE and make money for the COMPANY.
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Destropolis
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Top pick for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Hordeguard: Winds of the North
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Second-strongest match for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Leap into the heart of a Viking fantasy siege where tower defense meets action combat, strategy, and co-op survival. Gather what you can, raise your defenses, fight beside your friends, and hold the line against an unending horde.
TANK ZERO
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Third-strongest match for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
TANK ZERO is an action-packed game with tanks where players build their own unique tank from various parts, such as the hull, chassis, cannon, engine, and armor. Each time, players can create different combinations of characteristics and appearances for their tank.
OKTORAID
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Ranked #4 for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
A 2-player local co-op base-defense survivor. You're wired together by a power cable — stay close to share power and hit harder. Scavenge scrap, build a fortress of turrets and walls, then survive OKTO's endless robot siege. Fully solo-playable. Couch co-op & Remote Play Together.
Dead Broke
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Ranked #5 for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
Deadstone
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Ranked #6 for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Based on the inhospitable frontier world of Mars, against the backdrop of a bacterial outbreak, Deadstone offers a compelling blend of frantic combat and tower defense, backed by a highly nuanced character development system and strategic elements of resource management.
Rogue Star Rescue
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Ranked #7 for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
Dinotica
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Ranked #8 for Mining Mike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to Dinotica! Stomp into a mysterious and dangerous world filled with action, adventure, and companionship! Together, you'll fight, build, farm, and more as you work toward creating a unique home that is truly your own.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
『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.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
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.
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mining Mike.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Frequently asked about Mining Mike
- Does Mining Mike have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mining Mike supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Mining Mike?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mining Mike are Destropolis, Hordeguard: Winds of the North, TANK ZERO.
- Who developed Mining Mike?
- Mining Mike was developed by Heavy Photon, web-gnar, Banana Slip Games and published by Heavy Photon.
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 Mining Mike.
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