Single-player games like The Verge Miner
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Verge Miner, 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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Ranked picks
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basecamp
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Verge Miner.
Fight waves of mutated creatures in this roguelite tower defense game. Turrets can be used to defend or to harvest — you decide! How much can you secure before being overrun?
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Cannon Keep
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Verge Miner.
Build your city block by block and defeat waves of mechs in this tower defense roguelike! Combine powerful cannons with unique effects to survive the unforgiving wasteland and explore the underground to gather resources and find powerful relics.
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CitaDrill
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Verge Miner.
Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.
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CLEAR RED
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Verge Miner.
A first-person roguelike buried in a Cold War ICBM bunker under alien siege. Defend the missile. Drill through soil, tunnels, caves and even ancient temples. Collect resources, craft items, upgrade everything. Burn coal to keep bunker running. Find two launch keys. Fire. Kill the mothership. Repeat.
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Drop Order
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Verge Miner.
Drop Order is a dark sci-fi tactical tower defense where every turret placement shapes both your firepower and the enemy's route. Build synergistic defenses, create deadly mazes, and survive alien hordes with cards and hands-on drone combat.
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Loopstructor 2: Skyspine
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Verge Miner.
Build intricate rail networks, deploy and upgrade unique Battle Trains, and harness Turret Enchantments to forge mobile fortresses. Fend off endless abominations from the deep earth. Every layout is a battle of wits, every adjustment decides survival.
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Red Rocket Defencism
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Verge Miner.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
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Skymote
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Verge Miner.
A tower defence deckbuilder with roguelike elements. Build a deck, raise towers, cast spells, and discover unexpected synergies to turn your floating island into a fortress the sky can't break.
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Cardboard Town
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Verge Miner.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
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Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Verge Miner.
Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery.
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Lighthouse Keeper
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Verge Miner.
You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.
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Meow Express
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Verge Miner.
You are a cat on a robot vacuum cleaner. Which means you are bus driver in the cat world! Dodge obstacles, pop innocent kids' baloons, dash through buildings to collect your fellow cat pussengers. Meow Express is a cute, fun and annoying casual arcade game, just like our furry friends.
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Viral Firar
Single-player alternative to The Verge Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Verge Miner.
Viral Virar is an arcade running game with beautiful pixel art. Collect and upgrade 5 different runners with unique powers to reach to the end!