Games like Drain the Galaxy
If Drain the Galaxy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mining and Dwarves, INCREMINER and The Last Mothership — 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 Drain the Galaxy: Load the thousands of dwarves into the cargo hold of your starship and strip-mine entire planets. Swing the pickaxe, slice with a laser, blast with rockets, dig out ore and turn your haul into galactic credits.
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Mining and Dwarves
WHY THIS
Top pick for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Drain the Galaxy.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
INCREMINER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
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.
The Last Mothership
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Drain the Galaxy.
A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.
CasualSteam ↗King in the Mountain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
A calm strategic incremental mining game where you rebuild your Mountain Hall between expeditions. Plan each descent, choose where your dwarves dig, gather gold and rare artifacts, and return home when the torch burns out. Upgrade your crew, dig deeper, and bring your fallen kingdom back to life
Monger Drop
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Drain the Galaxy.
Throw dwarves, unleash rats, and toss bombs as you dig ever deeper in this chaotic incremental mining adventure.
Sporbs
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
A relaxing incremental game where you harvest resources from alien organisms. Upgrade your extraction technology, discover unique abilities, manage resources, automate a factory and unlock new areas to maximise your yield.
Shard Cycle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Drain the Galaxy.
Shard Cycle is an incremental prospecting game about getting richer and stronger. Sweep your cursor through fields of thousands of crystals, spend your drops on upgrades, and unlock effects that shatter hundreds at once. Dig deeper for rarer, tougher crystals. Watch your numbers climb.
Dwarf Eats Mountain
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Drain the Galaxy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Drain the Galaxy.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drain the Galaxy.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drain the Galaxy.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drain the Galaxy.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drain the Galaxy.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Drain the Galaxy
- What games are most similar to Drain the Galaxy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drain the Galaxy are Mining and Dwarves, INCREMINER, The Last Mothership.
- Who developed Drain the Galaxy?
- Drain the Galaxy was developed by Oil Studio.
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 Drain the Galaxy.
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