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Hydroneer

Hydroneer

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Released May 8, 2020 Developer Foulball Hangover Platforms Windows Base-BuildingMiningAutomationSandboxCo-op
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

86.6%positive25,123 reviews

What reviewers agree on

Praised
Criticised
Bar length = how many of the 103 reviews raise the point On criticised points, the pale part = reviewers who still recommend the game Select a point to see the exact counts and what reviewers wrote.

Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20

Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“It's a decent factory-automation game. It's USP is that you need to pipe water to the machines (to power them) and manage the water pressure.”

— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played
Recommended · 19 found this helpful

“Hydroneer is one of those games that looks simple at first, but slowly turns into something much deeper and more addictive than expected. At the start, it seems like a basic mining and crafting game where you dig dirt, wash it, sell resources, and upgrade your tools. But after…”

— a player, Steam review · 41 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“good game, runs well, can be a bit iffy on the late game but that's just because of how many things get spawned. the fact that I'm playing this on a laptop speaks plenty on how well it runs.”

— a player, Steam review · 86 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:17 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

918playing at last check
87024-hour peak
8,926all-time peak
0 2.5k 5k 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2.5k avg · May 2022

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

78achievements
3.7%median completion
0.5%rarest: Passive Income
58.7% of players 50.0% of players 49.7% of players 44.5% of players 31.1% of players 29.0% of players 25.7% of players 25.3% of players 23.5% of players 21.0% of players 19.1% of players 19.1% of players 18.9% of players 18.6% of players 18.6% of players 16.3% of players 15.2% of players 14.9% of players 13.3% of players 13.3% of players 12.6% of players 12.3% of players 12.2% of players 11.5% of players 10.8% of players 10.7% of players 8.4% of players 7.7% of players 7.5% of players 7.5% of players 6.7% of players 6.0% of players 5.6% of players 5.0% of players 4.9% of players 4.8% of players 4.8% of players 4.4% of players 4.0% of players 3.7% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 58.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
58.7%My First Hydrocoin — Sell something at the jeweller.
50.0%Let There Be Light — Turn on the lantern.
49.7%Smelt It, Dealt It. — Smelt a bar.
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Passive Income — Rebuild all the abandoned miners.
0.6%Assassin — Hidden achievement
0.6%Bonafide Bone Finder — Donate all the bones to the museum.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$14.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$14.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US14.99 USD
EU15.49 EUR
UK13.75 GBP
Australia20.95 AUD
Canada17.99 CAD
Japan1,900 JPY
Brazil53.49 BRL
China59.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$8.7 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$18

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

May 08, 2026
[Update] Hydroneer Mega-Optimization

A Huge Optimization Update Has Landed!This update includes optimizations across the board - these touch on multiple elements of the game. From improvements to performance in specific areas of the worl

Mar 01, 2026
Hydroneer is coming to Consoles!

TL;DR at the bottom! As some of you may know after we finished Hydroneer in April 2024 we've been hard at work on our next game, Die Trying. Since we're a tiny team, even whilst working on Hydroneer w

Aug 14, 2025
We're helping to bring 'Backseat Drivers' to the finish line!

We've always been interested in helping indie games, giving up-and-coming titles advice and support throughout their development, so when we learnt about GhostJam Games (Creators of 'Backseat Drivers'

Jun 18, 2025
ONE MILLION HYDRONEERS

Thank you for ONE MILLION HYDRONEERS!From the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! When I started developing Hydroneer as a solo developer back in 2019, I never imagined thi

May 08, 2025
Announcing our next game: Die Trying

In April 2024, we released 'Hydroneer: Journey to Volcalidus' DLC to mark us finishing Hydroneer. We spent four years since it's 2020 launch updating it with free major updates, a complete rewrite of

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsBase-Building · Mining · Automation · Sandbox · Co-op · Open World · Multiplayer · Building · Funny · Resource Management · Casual · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop
LanguagesEnglish * , Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Italian, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish *
Achievements78
Estimated owners1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://hydroneer.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Quad-Core 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 2.4 GHZ CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB DirectX 11 dedicated video card Storage: 10 GB available space