Single-player games like Lone Mining Engineer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Lone Mining Engineer , 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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Gunline
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
A tower defence you fight in first person. One road, one base, and thirty kinds of enemies walking down it. You meet them yourself with six guns and and build different kinds of defensive turrets.
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Mind Space
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
FPS with rpg elements. Made by one solo indie game developer.
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Astral Lords
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS. Dodge and unleash screen-clearing firepower against alien hordes, while constructing fortresses and real-time automated defenses to crush your enemies.
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SENTRY
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
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Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
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Halo: Campaign Evolved
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
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Alien Hallway
Single-player alternative to Lone Mining Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lone Mining Engineer .
Players measure stamina with a never-ending stream of green creatures within the borders of a special military mission.