Games like Backyard Digger
Games like Backyard Digger include PEAK, BeamNG.drive, The Forest, A Game About Digging A Hole, and Eastshade. We matched them by the tags players give Backyard Digger on Steam (Mining, Destruction, Realistic, Adventure, and Crafting): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

PEAK
Shared: Adventure · First-Person · Physics

BeamNG.drive
Shared: Realistic · Destruction · Physics

The Forest
Shared: Crafting · Adventure · First-Person

A Game About Digging A Hole
Shared: Mining · Exploration · Crafting

Eastshade
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · First-Person

Stranded Deep
Shared: Crafting · Adventure · Realistic

The Long Dark
Shared: Adventure · First-Person · Crafting

Out of Ore
Shared: Realistic · 3D · Exploration

Way of the Hunter
Shared: Adventure · Realistic · Exploration

Teardown
Shared: Destruction · Physics · First-Person

Erzurum
Shared: Crafting · Realistic · Exploration

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Shared: Adventure · Realistic · Exploration

POOLS
Shared: Realistic · First-Person · Atmospheric

Far Cry® 5
Shared: Realistic · Action-Adventure · First-Person

RV There Yet?
Shared: Adventure · First-Person · Physics

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Shared: Realistic · Adventure · First-Person

SnowRunner
Shared: Adventure · Realistic · Exploration

Firewatch
Shared: Adventure · First-Person · Atmospheric

Subnautica
Shared: Crafting · Adventure · Exploration

Fallout 4
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · First-Person

Just Cause™ 3
Shared: Destruction · Adventure · Singleplayer

Gold Mining Simulator
Shared: Mining · Realistic · Singleplayer

Far Cry® 6
Shared: Adventure · Crafting · First-Person

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Shared: First-Person · Adventure · Action-Adventure

