Single-player games like Mining Merchant
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Mining Merchant, 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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Super Mining Mechs
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
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Mining Mechs
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
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A Monk's Quest
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
You’re a monk exploring a vast sandbox world with living, simulated villages, where everyone has a life and a story. Mine, craft, and fight corrupted spirits in the wild. Then return to the villages to build a home, make friends, and master the art of prayer to help them fulfill their dreams.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Deep Digger
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Dig down, sell what you haul up, go deeper. A pixel-art mining incremental about numbers that climb: 19+ ores, 40+ permanent talents, sealed caves, portals to other dimensions. Prestige and keep what you built. The tenth run clears in minutes what the first took an hour.
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Pixel Divers
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
The surface was never the whole story. Something ancient calls from the floor of an alien sea. Dive with your crew through seven ever-darker layers: mine, craft, build bases, crew subs, and guard your air and sanity as the ocean turns hostile. It has been expecting you.
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ONE GIANT HOLE
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Humanity teams up to dig BILLIONS of VOXELS to create the world’s biggest hole—together. Every swing makes this giant hole bigger! Obtain resources, upgrade your pickaxe, and chat with others using text or voice! Dig this giant shared hole with friends, strangers, or solo!
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Naron
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Co-op mining roguelite for 1-4 players. Dig into a dying moon, complete objectives and fight your way back to your drillship. Every step of progress makes the return more dangerous. Tunnels can collapse and bury you. 47 crews failed to reach the core. How deep will you go?
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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Merchant.
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
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Super Motherload
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mining Merchant.
Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Merchant.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Schedule I
Single-player alternative to Mining Merchant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Merchant.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.