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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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    Infamous Keepers — Steam game cover

    Infamous Keepers

    Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.

    Defend your dungeon AND your job! Tower Defense meets Roguelite in Infamous Keepers. Use strategy and some clever trickery to defeat waves of enemies: set up towers and deadly traps, send your employees into the line of fire, and slaughter any intruders left standing yourself.

    2027StrategySingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endless Defense — Steam game cover

    Endless Defense

    Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hold The Mine.

    Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Anchored Hour — Steam game cover

    The Anchored Hour

    Single-player alternative to Hold The Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hold The Mine.

    Defend a displaced royal keep in a roguelite tower-defense strategy game. Build, scout, gather resources, and send units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and bases across unstable timelines as each run escalates.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access7.19 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frogrammer — Steam game cover

    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 auto-battler. Manage your resources, leverage synergies, exploit enemy weaknesses and fight your way to the source of the horde. Keep your boss happy, the budget low and go squash some bugs.

    2026StrategyIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The King is Watching — Steam game cover

    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

    2025StrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gem Miner TD — Steam game cover

    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!

    2026StrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endless Tactics — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SkyShard: City Battler — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Binding of Isaac — Steam game cover

    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!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers — Steam game cover

    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!

    2012Indie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Legacy — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Risk of Rain 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Defense Tower Simulator — Steam game cover

    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!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tower of Spirit — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →