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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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
53 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I love automation games, especially first person and crafting types. Satisfactory is one of my favorites. I played this game for a bit and absolutely loathed it. The crafting seems ok and there are some interesting…”
“The game seems fun after the early game (as long as your save doesn't delete itself) but getting past the early game is glacially slow and unfun. The lack of QoL (idk like an inventory, a coin purse, or even placing…”
“Game is fun but exiting using the option 'Save and quit to desktop' causes game save to become corrupt and forces a restart of all progress.”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“By the time I'm writing it, I have 350 hours on Factorio, over 70 hours in mindustry, over 60 hours in Satisfactory and had Hydroneer over one and a half years in my wishlist. It's a game that hits you different, it…”
“i used to play this game for a few hours back then and dropped it. that was when the whole farming thing didnt exist. then i tried again after a year, dropped it again. but last time i started again and got addicted to…”
“This game has a ton of character and personality. It's a nice change from factory games (3500 hrs. in Factorio ;) and can be very relaxing... ... once you get used to the controls. They are very challenging at first,…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its very fun and it has some funny gliches too. it runs very well on my pc”
“i used to play this game for a few hours back then and dropped it. that was when the whole farming thing didnt exist. then i tried again after a year, dropped it again. but last time i started again and got addicted to…”
“It really is just a chill game. Works really well on very low preforming laptops as well (given that you turn all the graffics to low), but it is just a great game”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Hydroneer is one of those games that looks simple at first, but after a few hours it completely takes over your brain. You start with a shovel, a bucket, and a tiny piece of land, thinking you are just going to dig up…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“its very fun and it has some funny gliches too. it runs very well on my pc”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“this game is +6 years old now and still has a bug that wipes all your progress when you dare to hit "save and quit"”
“The game seems fun after the early game (as long as your save doesn't delete itself) but getting past the early game is glacially slow and unfun. The lack of QoL (idk like an inventory, a coin purse, or even placing…”
“Tedious game, to get ores you have to dig earth, throw it in a bucket, empty the bucket in a pan, add water to the pan by throwing it in water, take it out of water, take a brush and clean the dirt to reveal ores you…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Couple of hot takes about Hydroneer before I explain why I hate this most recent thing they did. Hydroneer was okay, the 1.0 felt undercooked, the dlc was garbage and pretty much played into all the worst parts of the…”
“Split-screen only, no online co-op — a real shame for such a great game to play with friends.”
“This game is NOT playable for local multiplayer, controllers are NOT supported*”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“this game is +6 years old now and still has a bug that wipes all your progress when you dare to hit "save and quit"”
“The game seems fun after the early game (as long as your save doesn't delete itself) but getting past the early game is glacially slow and unfun. The lack of QoL (idk like an inventory, a coin purse, or even placing…”
“Game is fun but exiting using the option 'Save and quit to desktop' causes game save to become corrupt and forces a restart of all progress.”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“I've had this game a long time and played many hours. The journey was fun once the intiial frind was done, however, once I built more advanced drills and several of them the framerate dropped off a cliff and the latest…”
“[h1]Hydroneer deserves a sequel — here's why[/h1] [b]3 days after [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1106840/eventcomments/834998218919000178?snr=2_9_100015_]the news post[/url] = 150 comments.[/b] Top-tier games would…”
“By the time I'm writing it, I have 350 hours on Factorio, over 70 hours in mindustry, over 60 hours in Satisfactory and had Hydroneer over one and a half years in my wishlist. It's a game that hits you different, it…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Couple of hot takes about Hydroneer before I explain why I hate this most recent thing they did. Hydroneer was okay, the 1.0 felt undercooked, the dlc was garbage and pretty much played into all the worst parts of the…”
“Tedious game, to get ores you have to dig earth, throw it in a bucket, empty the bucket in a pan, add water to the pan by throwing it in water, take it out of water, take a brush and clean the dirt to reveal ores you…”
“The so-called 'tutorial' is extremely clunky and unforgiving. I barely managed more than 10-15 minutes of it before I'd had enough. This might be some peoples idea of fun, but it's certainly not mine.”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“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“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“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 playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:17 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
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.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
[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
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
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'
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
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Base-Building · Mining · Automation · Sandbox · Co-op · Open World · Multiplayer · Building · Funny · Resource Management · Casual · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English * , Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Italian, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish * |
| Achievements | 78 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://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