Games like Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
If Scherbenmark: The Old Mine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malignus, INCREMINER and GearTopia — 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 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine: You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.

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Malignus
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Top pick for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
INCREMINER
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Second-strongest match for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
GearTopia
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Third-strongest match for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
Corsair Cove
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Ranked #4 for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Digging Dudes
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Ranked #5 for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Command a squad of hard-working dudes, tunnel through different biomes and layers, collect rare ores and gemstones, equip powerful pickaxes, and descend into the depths!
Offshore Prophets
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Ranked #6 for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
StrategySteam ↗AstroDig
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Ranked #7 for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Mine, defend, and profit across planets. Expand your operation, survive enemy waves, and discover dangerous hidden worlds in this minimalist sci-fi strategy shooter.
TOWERPUNK
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Ranked #8 for Scherbenmark: The Old Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Scherbenmark: The Old Mine.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Frequently asked about Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
- What games are most similar to Scherbenmark: The Old Mine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scherbenmark: The Old Mine are Malignus, INCREMINER, GearTopia.
- Who developed Scherbenmark: The Old Mine?
- Scherbenmark: The Old Mine was developed by Bernhard Kokesch.
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