Single-player games like Mad Miner
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Mad 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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Hearthkeeper
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mad Miner.
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
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UDO
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
A delicious arcade down-scroller roguelike where you dig into a creepy hole with an oversized drill!
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DOOMBLADE
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
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99 Levels To Hell
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mad Miner.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
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Anomaly Agent
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
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Winter and People
Single-player alternative to Mad Miner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Miner.
Winter and People mix tower defense and city building genres with its minimal style; It is a tower defense game where you try to survive in cold cities.