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You are stranded on a hostile alien world after your ship crashes and must turn local resources and your own fabrication tools into a working base. It blends survival, automation and exploration into a sandbox where you build your own way off the planet.
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The closest matches for Dig or Die are FortressCraft Evolved!, Reassembly and Factorio. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Dig or Die special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Best match
After crash-landing on an alien planet, you build machines, production lines and defenses in a voxel world. A blend of crafting, logistics and tower defense sits at the heart of the game.
92 % 12.49 €
Sandbox with your own goals
You design modular spaceships from geometric parts, gather resources and fight real-time battles across a procedural galaxy. Creative ship building in a sandbox setting is the heart of the experience.
91 % 32.00 €
Deep systems to master
Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.
90 % 36.99 €
Sandbox with your own goals
You assemble rockets and spacecraft from parts and send the endearing Kerbals to moons and planets under realistic orbital physics. Failure is part of the fun and often as entertaining as success.
90 % 38.99 €
Building and crafting
As a FICSIT Pioneer you build sprawling automated factories in first person on an alien planet. Designing efficient production chains in a beautiful open world, solo or in co-op, is deeply satisfying.
90 % 16.79 €
Deep systems to master
A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.
89 % 23.99 €
Sandbox with your own goals
You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.
89 % 19.99 €
Sandbox with your own goals
Spore lets you guide your own species from a single cell to a galaxy-spanning empire, with each stage playing like a different genre. Its playful creature editor, letting you design nearly everything yourself, is the real star.
89 % −50 %Sandbox with your own goals
A procedurally generated space sandbox where you build modular ships block by block and push toward the galactic core as a trader, mercenary or explorer. Ship building and freedom of playstyle are the heart of the game.
88 % 16.99 €
Sandbox with your own goals
A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.
