Single-player games like Dig or Die
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Dig or Die, 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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dig or Die.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Crea
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig or Die.
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig or Die.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Castle Story
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dig or Die.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig or Die.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dig or Die.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dig or Die.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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TerraTech
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig or Die.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig or Die.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Plan B: Terraform
Single-player alternative to Dig or Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dig or Die.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.