Single-player games like Tunnelborn
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tunnelborn, 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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Dig Dig Boom
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Dig Dig Boom is a strategic mining roguelite set in a fully destructible world where time moves only when you move. Dig, blast, explore and fight your way through procedurally generated caves using a wide selection of mining tools with unique effects.
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Ricave
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Ricave is a turn-based, first-person dungeon crawler roguelike. Target enemy limbs, weaponize traps and spells to survive ever-changing dungeons, and rewind time. Follow cryptic guidance, piece together your past, aid other trapped souls, and outwit the Demon.
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Hunt the Muglump
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Retro-inspired dungeon crawling adventure/puzzle
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Dungeon's Gambit
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Dungeon’s Gambit is a real-turn chess dungeon crawler that mixes real-time environments with turn-based combat. Customize your pawn, unlock new skills to find powerful synergies, defeat challenging bosses, and fight your way through the Black Castle to take down the Throne.
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Trolley Path to Gold
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Puzzle game, build your way to the gold mine by collecting all the tools that come along the way.
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Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tunnelborn.
A Japanese "yokai" castle-maze adventure inspired by the real-time first person dungeon RPGs of the 1980s. Infiltrate the mysterious Hyakki Castle that appeared in a land of exiles as part of a secret anti-supernatural government group and defeat its master!
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
DROD is a unique puzzle-logic game with clever mechanics and an engaging story. It is a turn-based top-down 2-D dungeon puzzler. The game play has amazing depth through emergent behaviors as puzzle elements are combined. There is a simple interface and only a handful of commands to master.
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MOK: Super Space Taxi
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
Navigate a fragile space ship through dangerous caverns. Hand-drawn. From easy to super tricky in 5 worlds.
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Water Droplet Simulator
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
You are a water droplet. You can look around. That's it.
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FAIL GAMES
Single-player alternative to Tunnelborn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
FAIL GAMES is a collection of brutally hard but simple minigames. Beat each game to unlock the next. Earn coins when you fail and spend them on outfits and effects. So easy to learn your grandma could play it, but so hard to master you'll throw your PC out the window. And your grandma.