Ore Factory Squad starts you with a shovel and a rented warehouse, and expects you to end up owning the town’s ore industry. Every plot you buy hides a randomly generated vein underneath fully destructible terrain, so there’s no correct route down — you carve your own. It’s a co-op mining and factory-building sim on Steam where up to four players can dig, process, automate and haggle their way from nothing to an industrial empire.
At a Glance
- Release Date: 16 JULY 2026
- Genre: Simulation, Management, Strategy
- Platform: PC (Steam)
- Cost: Check the store page for current pricing
- Developer/Publisher: threeW / PlayWay S.A.
- Store Link: Get Ore Factory Squad on Steam →
The Concept
The progression here is refreshingly literal: shovel, then pickaxe, then jackhammer, then dynamite. You rent a warehouse, buy properties, and find out what’s underneath by digging it up yourself. Then the second half of the game kicks in — crushers, smelters and conveyor belts turn rocks into products, and production lines turn products into profit. From the studio behind Zombie Graveyard Simulator and published by PlayWay, it hit 75,000+ wishlists on the back of a demo that over 170,000 players added to their libraries.
Core Gameplay Features
1. Terrain You Actually Destroy
The mining isn’t set dressing:
- Fully destructible, procedurally generated ground — dig anywhere
- Every plot hides a randomised ore vein, so no two sites play the same
- Four different dig sites, each with its own environment and underground hazards
2. Automation That Scales
Manual digging is just the entry fee:
- Over 60 resources and products across three main production lines
- Crushers, smelters and conveyor belts to automate the grind
- Hire Miner and Handler employees, and send workers on off-site missions
3. Solo or Four-Player Co-op
The game works either way:
- Fully playable alone or with up to four players
- Haggle over contracts and play the stock market
- Drive the truck yourself if you’d rather not delegate
Who Is This For?
This sits at the intersection of two crowds: people who love the tactile satisfaction of digging and people who love watching a conveyor belt do their job for them. If you enjoyed the mining side of Satisfactory but wanted more randomness, or you’ve been looking for a factory game you can actually play with three friends without it becoming chaos, this is the shape of it.
Pro Tip
In co-op, split roles early rather than all four of you digging the same hole. One player on extraction, one on processing, one running contracts and the market, one hauling — that division scales the operation far faster than everyone doing a bit of everything. The four dig sites are big enough that overlap wastes real time.