Single-player games like Super Motherload
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Super Motherload, 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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Ad Fundum
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
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Super Mining Mechs
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
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A Game About Digging A Hole™
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
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Miner: Dig Deep
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.
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Mining Merchant
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Mining Merchant is a relaxing mining and shopkeeping adventure game. Mine by day to uncover rare ores and gems, then craft jewelry to sell in your shop by night. Rebuild your uncle’s business solo or in co-op and uncover the mystery behind the nightly earthquakes.
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DigDigDrill
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.
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Meltopia
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Stick RPG 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Super Motherload.
Get ready to enter the 2nd Dimension! Thrust into a bizarre and unfamiliar city and find your place among strange citizens. Work, Fight, Study, Eat, Drink, Gamble, Train, Sleep, Quest, Collect, Invest, Repeat.
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The Low Road
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Motherload.
Lie, blackmail, and steal your way down The Low Road. Rookie agent Noomi Kovacs must navigate her way through the world of corporate espionage in this dark spy comedy set in the 1970s.
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Defend Your Castle
Single-player alternative to Super Motherload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Super Motherload.
Defend your Castle against the relentless army of crayon invaders! Those crafty barbarian hordes have amassed their forces once again to challenge your domain. Will you and your court rise to the challenge, or stand aside as they raze your Castle to the ground?