Orebound

First-person dwarf mining and factory building in an open world

Emberforge · Released Oct 24, 2024 · Early Access

Action Adventure Casual Indie Massively Multiplayer Simulation Early Access

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 78% of 992
Recent reviews: Mixed; 64% of 14 in 30 days
Playing now: 9; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 3 weeks ago; Sep 1, 2026

What is Orebound?

This first-person voxel factory game casts you as a dwarf tasked by the king with finding the lost Emberstone. Explore procedurally generated mountains and caves, mine materials, craft tools, and build a fortress with drills, belts, and ore refineries.

For you if...

+you enjoy open-ended construction with a dwarven theme
+you like mixing exploration with factory management
+you want to build factories with friends online

Not for you if...

−you want challenging combat to lead the experience
−you prefer structured levels over open-world resource gathering

What players say

78% of 992 reviews are positive · 64% of 14 in the last 30 days

Players praise the digging, dwarf-themed building, and cycle of mining, automating, and upgrading. They criticize cumbersome factory construction and limited automation depth. Recent players also report machinery bugs involving splitters and elevators.

Screenshots and trailer

Orebound system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Win 10 or later
Processor: Intel i5 or AMD equivalent 9th gen
Graphics: 1050ti or higher and AMD equivalent
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Storage: 6 GB available space
DirectX: Version 12
Notes: Requirements may vary upon development milestones.

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 33
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default configuration is not performant

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish.