Single-player games like Mining Grounds
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Mining Grounds, 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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Click & Mine
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Mining Grounds.
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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Mining Away!
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
Mining Away! is a short incremental game in which you mine ores, collect resources, progress through the vast skill tree, find rare relics, and unlock powerful pickaxes!
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Mining Factory
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
Can mine, can fight, and has sisters, collecting more than 30 types of ore such as iron ore, copper ore, manganese ore, chrome ore, vanadium ore, titanium ore, etc. Team up to break through the 100th floor
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Raccoon Valley Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Mining Grounds.
Raccoon Valley is a cozy incremental game about restoring a forgotten raccoon village to its former glory. Dig for resources, collect everything in sight, and watch your little town come back to life.
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The Big Suck
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
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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Babel Legacy
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
An idle game where you gather resources and grow your city. Sit back and watch your city expand!
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Over Mining
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Mining Grounds.
At first, you can barely chip a rock. Gather ore, upgrade your pickaxe and skills, and soon floating pickaxes mine beside you while fire, ice and lightning shatter the stone. A first-person incremental mining game.
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A Game About Eating The Universe
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
'A game about eating the universe' is a short, satisfying incremental game. grow a black hole by destroying planets.
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Seeker: My Shadow
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Mining Grounds.
Seeker: My Shadow is a VR adventure that utilizes the versatility and possibilities of VR, sending players of all ages to an immersive adventure! You control a Giant Spirit while assisting Kippo, a small and adorable Seeker, through various puzzle levels. Go solo or solve the levels in co-op mode!
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Seeker Quest: The Creature Collector
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Grounds.
Build the ultimate team by catching & hatching cute 'Seeker' creatures. Power up your collection by looting artifacts, hidden abilities and grow your village to obtain new buildings and heroes. Over 30 unique playable Seeker characters awaits! Can you 'Catch & Hatch' them all?
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Cats With Standards
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Mining Grounds.
Horror Visual Novel where Cats claw through filth for bones and whisper lies to mirrors. Find the Hidden-Objects, obey, smile, and repeat until the lines between rule and ruin blur, and you’re left meowing into the void.
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Buttons Up! 2
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
Hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing gnomes. Get those Buttons Up by crafting buildings, trading with merchants and by travelling to weird biomes for rare resources. Unlock new skills with prestige points and become the button master in this chill survival incremental game.
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Giant Horse Feeding
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
Giant Horse Feeding is a silly alien colony simulator where you feed a horse & collect its droppings to build an alien empire. Automate production, unlock bizarre technologies, and create an endless recycling loop where horse droppings become the foundation of your civilization.
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Incremedieval
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Grounds.
An Incremental game about looting dungeons & becoming stronger
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Fish Battle Champion
Single-player alternative to Mining Grounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Grounds.
Catch fishes and items from the sea while the sun is up, trade & buy equipment during the evening and attend Fish Autobattle tournament during the night! Survive to the finals and beyond to become the Fish Battle Champion!