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37 Great Games Like Steamworld Dig

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The SteamWorld Dig series are action platform games where you play steam-powered robots trying to recover their lost civilisation. The two games in the series draws on classics like Dig Dug, Rick Dangerous, Repton and Boulderdash.

Unfortunately, Steamworld Dig is not available on Android, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Steamworld Dig

Game Details

Release Date: 31/08/2017

Price: 80% off

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS4

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Players: 1

Genres: Collecting, Traversal (Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Play)

Accessibility: 14 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: Steam World Games (@SteamWorldGames)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Steamworld Dig. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Steamworld Dig.

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Release Date: 12/01/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a running, jumping and fighting game like 90s classics Shinobi and Hagane: The Final Conflict. You play the Moonrider guardian that was created to defend a totalitarian state, racing through levels, attacking enemies and...

Dig Dig Boom

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Dig Dig Boom is a puzzle game about traversing a mine with explosives to recover buried treasure. The turn-based play means you can take your time with each move, placement of dynamite and gem collecting. It stands out for the kinetic strategy where...

Ground Divers!

Release Date: 30/06/2022

Out Now: PS Vita and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Ground Divers! is a traversal game where you guide a sleepy robot as he mines through the crust of a distant alien world in search of its hidden secrets. You must ensure you don't run out of energy, otherwise you fall asleep and have to start over....

Shield Cat

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

Shield Cat is a collecting adventure where you rush around an animal world to find all the treasures and save the king. As you spin and roll around the world you interact with puzzles, collect and uncover secrets, and even fight enemies. It's a game...

Knight of Exile

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Knight of Exile is a running, jumping and combat game where you play Cormac, the commander of the royal guard fighting to return from exile to restore order to the kingdom. It's unusual because of the combat mechanics that require players to react...

Wandersong

Release Date: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss, but...

18 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Steamworld Dig. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Steamworld Dig.

New Super Lucky's Tale

Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

New Super Lucky's Tale is a platform game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. It takes gameplay in a more action-oriented direction but the islands and characters are full of quirky characters...

Terraria

Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather

Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...

Spelunky 2

Spelunky 2 (Series)

Release Date: 29/09/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Spelunky 2 is, like the classic Spelunky, a running and jumping game where you exploring mysterious caves on the moon looking for your missing parents. On your journey, you will find unique environments, treasure, and people to join you as you delve...

Steamworld Heist

Release Date: 16/11/2015, updated in 2016

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Wii U

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Pixels

Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Series)

Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...

The Last Campfire

Release Date: 27/08/2020

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

The Last Campfire, from the same developer as Lost Winds, is an adventure about Ember who is searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting torches, bringing life to...

The Gunk

Release Date: 16/12/2021

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

The Gunk is a narrative adventure where you play one sister of a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, who find a new planet with new alien wildlife. You play by traversing the environment sucking up toxic waste, harvesting materials,...

Hey! Pikmin

Release Date: 28/07/2017

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS

Components: 2D Side-On

Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...

Black Book

Release Date: 10/08/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

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Recore

Release Date: 26/08/2016, updated in 2016

Out Now: PC and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

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Steamworld Quest

Release Date: 25/04/2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, Stadia and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

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Rootown

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Rootown is a traversal strategy game where you guide tree roots down through the soil. You play by planting a tree and then steering its roots to find good soil and avoid stones. The better you do the bigger the tree and the more resources you have to...

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Release Date: 06/07/2019

Out Now: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Toki Tori

Toki Tori (Series)

Release Date: 12/09/2001, updated in 2018

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS

Coming Soon: PS4

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Toki Tori is a puzzle game where you traverse 2D levels and use limited resources to rescue all the eggs. Similarly to the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games, you can build bridges over gaps. Here though, you can also unlock...

SteamWorld Headhunter

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

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Release Date: 22/02/2018

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Astronite

Release Date: 30/11/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

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Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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6 Younger Content Rating than Steamworld Dig

If Steamworld Dig is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.

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16 Video Games Like Steamworld Dig Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Steamworld Dig. This includes games from the Role-Play, Puzzle, Fighting, Action, Platform, Traversal and Collecting genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Pepper Grinder

Dig Dig Boom

The Gardener and the Wild Vines

Shine – Journey of Light

Lego City: Undercover

8 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Steamworld Dig

If you like the sound of Steamworld Dig but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Steamworld Dig Accessibility Report.

Rootown

The Gunk

New Super Lucky's Tale

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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37 Great Games Like Steamworld Dig

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6 Similar Games Short List

18 Similar Games Long List

6 Younger Content Rating than Steamworld Dig

16 Video Games Like Steamworld Dig Based on Genre

8 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Steamworld Dig

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