Single-player games like Dig For Your Lives
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dig For Your Lives, 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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Mr. Nomad
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Mr. Nomad is a survival base-building, tower defense game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Set a fortified base around your camper, craft, endure brutal zombie raids, hide what is precious to you in underground bunker and embark on dangerous missions in search of resources.
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CLEAR RED
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
A first-person roguelike buried in a Cold War ICBM bunker under alien siege. Defend the missile. Drill through soil, tunnels, caves and even ancient temples. Collect resources, craft items, upgrade everything. Burn coal to keep bunker running. Find two launch keys. Fire. Kill the mothership. Repeat.
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The Spotter: Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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ZIC – Zombies in City
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
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Zelter
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
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Crafting Dead
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dig For Your Lives.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Sad Ghouls
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Sad Ghouls is an arcade survival shooter. Kills increment the combo counter, Higher combo means better weapons which leads to more combo. Become a tool of destruction as you decimate endless forces of ghouls and compete with other player's highscores
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Cube-Field+
Single-player alternative to Dig For Your Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dig For Your Lives.
Inspired by the classic browser game. Race through a 3D field of cubes in Cube-Field+, a fast-paced endless runner with incremental mechanics. Upgrade your vessel, unlock powerful abilities, and push further with each run in a hypnotic loop of speed, precision, and progress.