Single-player games like You Know The Drill
Below are 9 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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Drillbound
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.
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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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The Big Suck
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
A short incremental game where you are the disaster. Destroy fields, cars, buildings. Gather wreck to grow and spend it on upgrades inside the big skill tree.
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A Game About Creating The Universe
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
An idler game where you get to build up the universe from scratch. You are a part of an advanced space civilization that builds universes.
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Power Of The Sun
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Empower the sun and drive forward the engine of creation of the universe. Collect cosmic resources, generate energy, and evolve through a galaxy of upgrades. Burn brighter and radiate light into the universe!
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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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Mining Miner
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
There is ore under your feet and that is a problem, because it is not in your pocket yet. Dig, sell, upgrade, hire auto-miners, keep digging.
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Mine or Burn
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Start with a basic mining ship and snowball into an asteroid-crushing powerhouse in this incremental bullet hell roguelite. Mine asteroids, battle rival miners, stack upgrades, create powerful builds, and survive escalating threats across dangerous star systems.
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Beep Beep Until You're Rich!
Single-player alternative to You Know The Drill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
A cozy incremental treasure-hunting game about digging up buried loot with your metal detector, unlocking upgrades, and building a pirate fortune. Help Bia buy her very own pirate ship!