Single-player games like Cosmodrill
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Cosmodrill, 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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Ship Miner
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cosmodrill.
Action mining game with retro aesthetics and roguelike elements. Collect minerals from procedurally generated asteroids, improve your ship and survive The Anomaly, an unknown entity threatening The Galaxy. Can a simple miner stop The Anomaly and save everyone?
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Cobalt Miner
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cosmodrill.
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
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Asteroid Rodeo
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmodrill.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
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Black Demeter
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmodrill.
Black Demeter is an open-world sci-fi action-adventure set on a planet in constant twilight. Turn movement into a weapon, earn the natives’ trust, or sacrifice it all.
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Moon Rocks and Slimes
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cosmodrill.
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
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Deep Space Exploitation
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmodrill.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmodrill.
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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Gaia Beyond
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmodrill.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
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Pinfinity - Incremental Pinball
Single-player alternative to Cosmodrill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cosmodrill.
Hit bumpers to earn money, expand your skilltree, place more bumpers and get rich in this incremental pinball game!