Games like Digging a Hole... with a Spoon... Escape from Alcatraz

A simple, darkly funny game about digging your way out of a crumbling Alcatraz knockoff - with nothing but a plastic spoon. Find junk, trade with your toilet buddy, and unlock weird mods to upgrade your spoon. Freedom is waiting! Ever wondered: “Could I escape prison with just a spoon?” You wake up in the bottom floor of "Alco-Trash" - a grim, forgotten island prison with walls that crumble fast…

83%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, graphics

83% User Score Based on 717 reviews

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

optimization, stability

90% User Score Based on 242 reviews

Strange Seed is a creature evolution game inspired by games like E.V.O.: Search for Eden and Spore’s creature stage. You begin as a humble blob: the “strange seed” that fell from a very unusual tree. While many blobs exist, you’re not quite like the others. EvolutionDefeat creatures to collect their DNA and unlock new body parts. Reshape yourself and experiment with combinations to build the …

91%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

replayability, grinding

91% User Score Based on 11,318 reviews

A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!

89%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

93% User Score Based on 638 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

Poi is a 3D adventure platformer throwback to the 90s era of classic platforming games. Explore big worlds, compete in challenge levels, meet quirky characters and pull off classic platforming feats on a journey to become a Master Explorer.

80%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

stability, replayability

87% User Score Based on 1,330 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 11 reviews

Mail Time is a relaxing, cottagecore adventure set in a peaceful forest, far, far away. It's your first day on the job as a newly minted Mail Scout. Equipped with a mushroom hat, a pack full of letters, and unbridled enthusiasm, it's time to deliver letters and packages across the Grumblewood Grove. Their recipients eagerly await the sight of your mushroom hat, so don't tarry! Run, jump, glide,…

85%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

story, grinding

85% User Score Based on 520 reviews

Welcome to Ocean Keeper, a mining roguelike shooter with a top-down view. Play as a Miner whose spaceship has crashed on a planet, filled with underwater monsters. Find resources and artifacts for purchasing valuable upgrades. Use the time between each attack to power up your diver, mech, weapon or explore a new dungeon. Build automatic turrets, use drones to collect loot and improve your skill…

92%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

story, grinding

92% User Score Based on 950 reviews

A simulation game where you build a town in the middle of the sea. Reach self-sufficiency, invite travelers to join you, then manage their needs and research new facilities to keep them happy. Build a submarine and discover islands to produce increasingly complex resources.

79%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, stability

79% User Score Based on 1,158 reviews

Keep Digging is a laid-back co-op mining game where the only objective is to dig ever deeper, sell what you find, and keep upgrading your kit. Nothing more, nothing less. There’s no combat, no stealth, and no enemies. Just pure, satisfying excavation.

58%Game Brain Score

humor, emotional

stability, gameplay

58% User Score Based on 225 reviews

iDigging is an exciting cooperative (up to 5 people) first-person game with bright, stylized, cute graphics where you play as a protagonist who decides to challenge the rules and laws. In this game, you'll dig your way to success despite the bans and threats. The life of your character is not going well: his wife left him for the neighbor because he has no job and no money, and his house is empty…