Single-player games like Planet Miners
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Planet 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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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
In this 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure, you can mine, craft and fight your way through an almost endless universe full of procedurally generated planets.
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Ad Fundum
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
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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WoofWatch
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Pilot a mech-suited dog through procedurally generated city districts and take down bosses built from what dogs fear most. Dodge, shoot, and stack absurd weapon effects to survive the chaos.
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Caverns: Lost Sky
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Caverns: Lost Sky is a single player action-adventure RPG set in a fully destructible, voxelized subterranean realm. Join Strato in the Tellurian Sector as he battles hordes of Fera in his quest to find the sky. Level up and increase your stats, or ascend the caverns searching for buried treasure.
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Zerium War: Destiny
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Miners.
Battle through waves of invaders in Zerium War: Destiny, a sci-fi Roguelite RPG. As Earth's core guardian, wield auto-shooting skills to grow stronger. Face random challenges and gear up for each victory.
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Miner: Dig Deep
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
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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Super Motherload
Single-player alternative to Planet Miners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miners.
Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.