8 Games Like Moon Sweepers: Clean, Dig, Upgrade, Repeat

If Moon Sweepers made you enjoy watching dirt disappear, PowerWash Simulator 2 is built around exactly that. You take jobs around the town of Muckingham and further out, and blast every surface with a pressure washer until it's clean. New tools in this one include an abseiling rig, a cherry picker and a surface cleaner for big areas.

Moon Sweepers made the job huge and silly. PowerWash Simulator 2 keeps each job smaller and tidier, and some now have several stages, from a vehicle's inside to whole new rooms. You can share campaign progress with friends online, and this sequel adds split-screen co-op on one screen. Between jobs you decorate a home base and, as the store page promises, pet your cats.

Viscera Cleanup Detail makes you the janitor of a space station after the hero has already won. An alien invasion has been beaten back, and someone has to deal with the blood, the spent cartridges and the bodies. You get a mop, a bucket, gloves and a couple of sci-fi tools, and the whole facility to clean.

Like Moon Sweepers, the joke is a huge mess, very basic tools and friends who may help or may make things worse. Steam lists online, LAN and split-screen co-op. Buying it also gets you two spin-offs, Santa's Rampage and VCD: Shadow Warrior. It's as gory as the name suggests, and the store page notes that the Mac version has no Steam multiplayer.

ASTRONEER drops you on a strange planet with a terrain tool that digs, collects and reshapes the ground like clay. You gather resources, build bases from snap-together parts, and work up to power plants, automated harvesters and railways across a solar system of seven worlds.

What it shares with Moon Sweepers is the space setting and the steady climb from a hand tool to machines that do the work for you. It's more of an adventure, with odd structures and messages to look into. It supports 2 to 4 players in online co-op, and friends can drop in and out of your world.

A Game About Chopping Trees is as simple as it sounds. You chop trees, spend what you earn on a sharper axe, a stronger swing and better technique, and pump a handcar along the rails when it's time for a new stretch of forest. After you clear an area you can plant saplings and watch them grow back.

It has Moon Sweepers' upgrade loop without the chaos. The store page promises no timers and no pressure, so it suits a slow evening. You can play alone or with one friend online. It came out in July 2026.

Deep Rock Galactic makes you a dwarf miner for a space mining company that isn't known for its benefits package. One to four players drop into procedurally generated caves, dig through rock that can be fully destroyed, collect minerals and try to bring the whole crew home.

It's a shooter, so there's much more fighting than in Moon Sweepers: hordes of alien creatures show up while you work. What it shares is the company-job humor and the long climb of upgrades and ranks. Each of the four classes brings its own tools, from a big drill to a grappling hook.

Hydroneer is a mining sandbox about digging for gold and turning it into money. You start with simple tools, sell what you find, then build water-powered machines, pipe networks and large vehicles that dig and haul far more than you could by hand.

That move from shovel to machine is the same one Moon Sweepers is built on, with a lot more tinkering. You can also forge weapons and jewelry, go fishing and cook soup for the villagers. Steam lists co-op for it, including shared screen and Remote Play Together.

The Planet Crafter gives you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable. You gather minerals, build a base and set up machines that raise the heat, the oxygen and the pressure. Over many hours, moss appears, then insects, then forests and animals.

The best moment in Moon Sweepers is looking back at a clean stretch of Moon you did yourself. The Planet Crafter has that on the scale of a planet. The store page calls it a chill experience with no violence, and it supports 1 to 10+ players in online co-op.

A Game About Digging A Hole starts in the garden of a house you just bought. You dig, sell what you find, upgrade your equipment and dig deeper. There's a mystery waiting at the bottom, but most of the pull is the next upgrade.

It's the smallest game here and the plainest version of the loop Moon Sweepers runs on. It's single-player only, made by one developer in their spare time, according to the store page. A co-op game on a beach from a different team, A Game About Digging A Hole Together, is under Also worth a look.