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Orebound
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I think this game has potential, it has some decent graphics, and it captures the dwarf lifestyle well, having the player spend most of their time in caves below ground, and building with dwarven architecture. But a major problem is, the game lacks depth with the automation…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played“This game said it isnt playable on the Steam Deck but ive just paid 8 hours of this game on my steam deck and it runs completely fine, Yes i had 1 crash 6 hours in due to some issue I dont know but no other problems at all. Please correct the steam deck rating for this game…”
— a player, Steam review · 60 hrs played“At this time I would not recommend this game. I see the vision and will be keeping a close eye on this game. I think it has a lot of potential but needs work. The bad: -Starting the game there is no option to load your game. You have to start adventure and end up in the massive…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:27 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 2026-07-25. 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.
New cave types ready for testing!
Greetings fellow dwarves! We are very excited to announce that we have made some extremely good progress on the new cave type formations and they are ready for testing on Thenextupdate branch! To play
Dwarven Den 2- Anvil Update 5 News, Huge Changes To Caves & New Factory Content!
Dwarven Den Preview 2! Fellow Dwarves! Grab a mug of ale, a good chunk of bread and cheese, and gather round for another announcement of the Dwarven Den! Where we bring news on the upcoming future of
World Improvements Update
Hello everyone! We are happy to announce we are releasing a smaller follow-up update to Anvil Update 4! This update contains QoL improvements to the world of Orebound, giving more life to the world in
Anvil update 4 is here!
Check out our previous post for more detail on the major points of the update, but here is some new content we are happy to announce is also releasing! Character customisation We didn’t fully go into
Anvil Update 4
Welcome to Anvil update 4! Coming April 25th 2026 This week we release the biggest content update in Orebound’s history! With tons of new factory and automation gameplay, much needed combat improvemen
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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 | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Resource Management · Automation · Simulation · Crafting · Base-Building · Mining · Building · Voxel · Open World · Exploration · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish * |
| Achievements | 33 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Win 10 or later Processor: Intel i5 or AMD equivalent 9th gen Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: 1050ti or higher and AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 6 GB available space Sound Card: N/A VR Support: N/A Additional Notes: Requirements may vary upon development milestones.