Single-player games like Murder Miners
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Murder Miners, 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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Screencheat
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Screencheat is a ridiculous competitive split-screen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible, so players are forced to look at each other’s screens to win. Supporting both local and online multiplayer, combat in Screencheat is fast and furious with a wide variety of one-hit kill weapons.
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CastleMiner Z
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
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Cobalt
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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Unrailed!
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
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HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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Garry's Mod
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Miners.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Murder Miners.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Haloo
Single-player alternative to Murder Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Miners.
Fight the endless mass of enemies, collect loot, get stronger and Haloo!