Single-player games like Infinite Ruins
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Infinite Ruins, 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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Oil Island Hustle
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infinite Ruins.
Your on an island because you owe your best friend 1 million dollars. To pay him back, you extract all the oil and resources in here. Buy some robots to automate your work, repair your port and unlock new trade partners and starting hustling!
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Mining and Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Infinite Ruins.
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 Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Infinite Ruins.
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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Orebits
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infinite Ruins.
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a roguelite tech tree, discover gravitational anomalies, and deliver resources back to Earth. Upgrade and explore space to discover what secrets it holds!
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Pickochet
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Infinite Ruins.
Pickochet is a short, incremental mining game where you mine ore using bouncy ricocheting pickaxes, purchase upgrades, unlock abilities and discover new mining sites.
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Ore & Odds
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Infinite Ruins.
An incremental game where you mine and rely on your luck to unlock upgrades. Choose your improvements, explore different biomes and face a final boss. Numbers keep growing... until chance takes it all away.
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Hamstr Protocol
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Infinite Ruins.
From a single hamster wheel to a full bio-mining operation — set up rigs, manage heat, feed your runners, and turn HAM into real in-game profit. Expand your setup, optimize your operation, and never let the hardware overheat.
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Market Chain 98
Single-player alternative to Infinite Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build your Market Chain in this retro incremental game set inside a nostalgic 90s operating system. Start with a small shop, manage bank loans, expand your logistics hubs, and unlock global upgrades through your Portfolio. Fill your desktop with windows and dominate the market!