Single-player games like Mining Company
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Mining Company, 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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Lost Hope: Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Company.
Lost Hope, a chilling horror game set in the eerie Backrooms universe, challenges players to delve into enigmatic locations teeming with bizarre and inexplicable phenomena. Embark on an expedition alone or with friends!
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Blood Red
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
Blood Red is a co-op survival horror game that can be played with 1-4 players. Figure out the demon and banish it using your special demon hunting kit!
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Backrooms Media
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
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AsHes
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
This horror game inspired by Chinese folklore offers an enthralling journey through the depths of the Underworld. As you delve deeper, you'll unravel hidden secrets veiled in the darkness.
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Interstellar Rift
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Lethal Company
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Sketchy's Contract
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
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Emissary Zero
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Company.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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DownhillMadness
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
DownhillMadness is a game unlike any other. Shoot hundreds of projectiles at once and then guide them through multipliers using forcefields and wind, toward goals to make the most money! Complete challenges, unlock levels, and discover new techniques.
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Catch The Fox
Single-player alternative to Mining Company — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mining Company.
Catch the Fox is a casual singleplayer action game featuring foxes that run between altars, requiring strategy and dexterity to outwit them as they get faster. Fly with the hang glider and get powerups. Or play zombie mode, where the zombie foxes chase you, as you try to survive as long as possible.