Single-player games like Hold The Mine
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hold The Mine, 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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The King is Watching
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
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Frogrammer
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Hire the right Frogrammers and fight off the bugs in this tug-of-war strategy auto-battler. Manage your resources, leverage synergies, exploit enemy weaknesses and fight your way to the source of the horde. Hold on to your tadpoles and SQUASH.THE.BUGS.
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Gem Miner TD
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!
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SkyShard: City Battler
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hold The Mine.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
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Endless Tactics
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
A turn-based tactics roguelite about defending a planetary mining expedition, upgrading your starship, and extracting before alien hordes overrun you.
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A Dungeon Is You
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
You died and got reincarnated as a dungeon core! Grow your dungeon, summon minions to defend you and conquer the world. A Dungeon Is You is a modern incremental dungeon management game. With a sprinkle of tower defense and rpg.
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Endless Escalation
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
A strategy-driven incremental where choices actually matter. Upgrade costs scale together, forcing meaningful trade-offs instead of blindly upgrading everything. Build defenses, specialize your army, and adapt to overcome ever-evolving enemy forces.
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Pickaxe Friends
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
《Pickaxe Friends》 is a deck-building roguelike defense game set against the backdrop of cute miners and their intense mining adventures. Design your own synergy decks, master counters and timing, and hold the line against waves of incoming enemies. Thrilling action and deep strategy await you!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Defense Tower Simulator
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Welcome to Tower Defense Simulator and prepare yourself to protect your kingdom from different monsters! Join this game and prepare to many exciting missions with this great game!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Tower of Spirit
Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Tower of Spirit is a fast turn-based RPG where your choices matter. Gather a group of unique characters, survive a series of random encounters and battle your way to reach the enigmatic tower!