Single-player games like You Know The Drill
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to You Know The Drill, 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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Click & Mine
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Click & Mine is a relaxing incremental mining game. Mine various resources and use them to buy upgrades, allowing you to descend deeper and deeper while unlocking new biomes, ores and skills.
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Babel Legacy
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
An idle game where you gather resources and grow your city. Sit back and watch your city expand!
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Gelli Fields
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Gelli Fields is a casual farming game with adorable slimes. Save the world of Continaa while you relax in the real one!
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Mining and Dwarves
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
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Planet No More
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with You Know The Drill.
Planet No More is an arcade-incremental game where you build a fleet to dynamically shatter celestials. With every weapon and fleet upgrade, you'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
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DO NOT FEED THE VIRUS - Incremental
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Grow your organism, gather biomass, and expand your colony. A casual, short mouse-driven incremental game focused on growth and progression.
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It's Chopping Time!
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Summon the mighty power of gods in this fun incremental game about chopping down trees on a secluded island by using the forces of nature: earthquakes, sunbeams, tornadoes, hail, lightning strikes and tidal waves! It's Chopping Time!
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Crystal Ascend
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with You Know The Drill.
A simple incremental game where you nurture crystal elementals by destroying floating crystals and harvesting aether. Upgrade the skill tree, unlock new abilities to gather resources faster, and build your ultimate crystal companions.