Single-player games like Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha), ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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SimAirport
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Turmoil
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Gatewalkers
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha).
Gatewalkers is a unique mixture of co-op game, survival and RPG. You, as a Gatewalkers, travel across different worlds in order to save your own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants and challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.
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Climber: Sky is the Limit
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!
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Ancient Farm
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Plow, plant, water, and harvest as you build your ancient Egyptian farm from the ground up. Begin with nothing and unlock workshops, production buildings, and temples through your own hard work.
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Climber: Sky is the Limit - Free Trial
Single-player alternative to Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a unique survival and simulation game where you become winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!