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Games like Drill Core
Hungry Couch Games · 2025 · 85 % positive of 1,329
24 games that play like Drill Core and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Galactic Mining Corp, The Crust and Planetbase.
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At a glance
What games like Drill Core have in common
- The tags they share most often with Drill Core: Strategy (19 of 24), Colony Sim (13) and Exploration (11).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, 5 of them after Drill Core (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Stardeus (87 % positive of 1,343).
- Rogue Station and Desperate Place both play and look like Drill Core.
By gameplay
Plays like Drill Core
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Galactic Mining Corp
84 % positive of 911
Shared: Rogue-lite · Exploration · Rogue-like
The Crust
76 % positive of 2,603
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,852
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · City Builder
Space Architect
79 % positive of 197
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Astronomics
90 % positive of 417
Shared: Strategy · Exploration · Tower Defense
Exogate Initiative
73 % positive of 577
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
Mercury Fallen
81 % positive of 287
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
GeoDepths
86 % positive of 289
Shared: Strategy · Exploration · Base-Building
From Glory To Goo
95 % positive of 902
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Tower Defense
ITER-8
73 % positive of 201
Outworld Station
89 % positive of 274
Shared: Strategy · Base-Building · Sandbox
Rogue Station
78 % positive of 215
Shared: Strategy · Rogue-lite · Rogue-like
More matches
- IXION78 % positive of 15,689Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
- Imagine Earth81 % positive of 923Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox
- Calyx87 % positive of 492
- Geo84 % positive of 178Shared: Base-Building · Management · Sci-fi
- Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder73 % positive of 701Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · City Builder
- Desperate Place75 % positive of 206Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · City Builder
- Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)86 % positive of 376Shared: Strategy · Exploration · City Builder
- Stardeus87 % positive of 1,343Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
- Aven Colony72 % positive of 2,638Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · City Builder
- Stranded: Alien Dawn84 % positive of 10,014Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Astro Colony82 % positive of 2,256Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Exploration
- Base One38 % positive of 470Shared: Strategy · Exploration · Management
By look
Looks like Drill Core
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Wall World
91 % positive of 10,001
Depth of Extinction
74 % positive of 206
Repetendium
90 % positive of 284
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
76 % positive of 635
Creeper World IXE
70 % positive of 694
Lumencraft
77 % positive of 1,177
Mining Merchant
87 % positive of 437
Exit the Gungeon
75 % positive of 3,525
Templar Battleforce
93 % positive of 950
Rogue Station
78 % positive of 215
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
85 % positive of 13,734
Starmancer
65 % positive of 988
More matches
- Dome Keeper92 % positive of 16,212
- Desperate Place75 % positive of 206
- CRYPTARK82 % positive of 1,822
- Barotrauma93 % positive of 75,334
- Steam Marines50 % positive of 332
- Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander83 % positive of 1,308
- Ad Fundum94 % positive of 341
- BORE BLASTERS81 % positive of 668
- Tower 5764 % positive of 786
- Risk of Rain (2013)93 % positive of 29,626
- Risk of Rain Returns90 % positive of 27,823
- SteamWorld Heist II95 % positive of 1,885
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.