Single-player games like Dig Island
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Dig Island, 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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DROPTCH
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Stranded upon an island and surrounded by an ancient sea, you awaken...
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Voxelantis
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Voxelantis is a sandbox building and survival game set in a flat or spherical voxel world. Build anything out of your imagination, or adventure into uncharted territories to fight dangerous creatures. You can and deserve to have a small home planet of your own.
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Engineer Alpha
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
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Rising World
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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Orebound
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
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Camping Vlog Simulator 2024
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dig Island.
Witness breathtaking sunsets and pitch your tent under starry skies. Record your camping adventures and share them with the world!
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Keep Digging
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
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cyubeVR
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dig Island.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dig Island.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Sandwich Simulator
Single-player alternative to Dig Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
Ready to create your own world of flavor? Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players, prepare sandwiches with your friends, deliver online orders to the courier and run your sandwich restaurant. Clean, expand, and keep your customers happy!