Games like Hammerting
If Hammerting is your kind of game, the closest matches are Per Aspera, Survival Vacancy and Captain of Industry — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and melancholic. 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 →Hammerting is a 2D dwarven mining colony sim from Warpzone Studios, published by Team17 in 2021. Players manage a mining colony in the mountains of Mara, crafting and fighting through automation systems, resource logistics, and tower-defense-style enemy waves while supplying allies in the overworld. It carries a Metacritic score of 64, runs 54% positive of 1,014 Steam reviews, and is unsupported on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe an atmospheric, relaxing-then-challenging experience and credit the charming art style, the satisfying colony management, and the traps that provide tactical depth. Priced at $24.99 and falling under strategy and indie, it pairs dwarf management with a tech tree. The vertical mining-colony design and its defense waves define what the data covers here.
About Hammerting: Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Players who liked Hammerting also play
Steam players who put hours into Hammerting 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.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerting.
Top pick for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Survival Vacancy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerting.
Second-strongest match for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hammerting.
Third-strongest match for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Moose Miners
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hammerting.
Ranked #4 for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Illuminaria
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hammerting.
Ranked #5 for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerting.
Ranked #6 for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Kubifaktorium
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hammerting.
Ranked #8 for Hammerting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hammerting at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerting.
Priced ~60% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hammerting.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hammerting.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hammerting.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hammerting on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Hammerting.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hammerting.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Hammerting
- Does Hammerting work on Steam Deck?
- Hammerting is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Hammerting cost?
- Hammerting is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hammerting have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hammerting supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hammerting?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hammerting are Per Aspera, Survival Vacancy, Captain of Industry.
- Who developed Hammerting?
- Hammerting was developed by Warpzone Studios and published by Team17 Digital.
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