26 Great Games Like Steamworld Dig

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 7

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

Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: @MoonGameStudios

Players: This is a single player game

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...

New Super Lucky's Tale

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

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

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @PlayfulStudios

Players: This is a single player game

This 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 character and treasures like...

Hey! Pikmin

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 28/07/2017

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 6 features

Developer: @NintendoUK

Players: This is a single player game

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...

Terraria

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 8-14 year-olds

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

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

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Platform, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 22 features

Developer: @Terraria_Logic

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online

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...

Knight of Exile

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 03/01/2020

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform

Developer: @DonXugloGames

Players: This is a single player game

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...

The Last Campfire

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Release Date: 27/08/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @HelloGames

Players: This is a single player game

The Last Campfire, from the same developer as No Man's Sky, is an adventure about Ember who is trapped a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting...

Spelunky 2 (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 29/09/2020

Platforms: PC and PS4

Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform

Developer: @MossMouth

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

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...

Wandersong

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 27/09/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Platform and Rhythm

Developer: @TheBanov

Players: This is a single player game

In Wandersong you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing. Controlled by one of the direction sticks, you can access different notes on the coloured ‘Song Wheel’. This...

Recore

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds

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

Platforms: PC and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting

Developer: @AsoboStudio

Players: This is a single player game

Recore is an adventure platform game where you control Joule Adams, one of the first volunteers for the utopian colony of Far Eden, who wakes after centuries in cryo-sleep to find that nothing has gone according to plan. With her three robotic machines...

Steamworld Quest

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 25/04/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC, Stadia and Switch

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Role-Playing and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 9 features

Developer: @ImageForm

Players: This is a single player game

SteamWorld Quest is also turn-based, but here you pick card abilities to attack enemies, which moves the strategy from prioritisation and shooting to combining attack and defence abilities effectively.

The Gunk

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 01/09/2021

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World

Developer: @ImageForm

Players: This is a single player game

The Gunk is an adventure game where you play as a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, until they find a new planet with new alien wildlife. Soon you realise that you need to save the planet from a Gunk parasite to free the world from...

Combo Postage

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 06/07/2019

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 13 features

Developer: @HacksawUnit

Players: This is a single player game

Combo Postage is a jumping and stacking game. You play as Sue at her summer job as she dodges, tapes, and stomps boxes with a high-tech tape gun. Run into a box to tape it up then stomp to seal. It’s simple, hectic fun and as you realise you can line...

Steamworld Heist

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds

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

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia and Wii U

Genres: Action, Platform, Role-Playing, Shooting and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: @ImageForm

Players: This is a single player game

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...