Single-player games like Glasswake
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Glasswake, 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 Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Glasswake.
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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10 Million Pixels
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Glasswake.
Mine through millions of pixels to find the Golden Pixel. A mesmerizing incremental game about exploration and erosion.
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Carve The Cave Together
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Glasswake.
Dig a cave with a friend, one cell at a time. Throw balls into solid rock in zero gravity and they never stop, so the more cave you open the further everything flies. Mine ore, feed the machine, unlock a roster of balls that each dig differently.
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Over Mining
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Glasswake.
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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Deep Core Protocol
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Glasswake.
Deep Core Protocol is a mining incremental game where you mine ores, upgrade powerful pickaxes and skills, automate your operation with Mining AI, defeat bosses, and push deeper underground through Rebirth and New Game+.
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Resurface
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Glasswake.
Escape the ocean depths in this casual incremental mining game. Mine, upgrade, and explore as your strength grows to crazy proportions, but don’t run out of oxygen!
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Pull Until It Breaks
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Glasswake.
Push everyday materials to their breaking point in a destructive-testing simulation game with incremental progression. Apply force, earn Research, upgrade your machine, unlock new specimens, and discover which breaks first: the specimen or the machine?
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Mine Empire
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Glasswake.
In Mine Empire, start with basic mining and expand by gathering resources, upgrading equipment, and deploying machines for full automation. Blast through deep mineral veins with explosives, unlock rebirth upgrades and advanced technology, and build your own powerful mine empire.
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All Hands
Single-player alternative to Glasswake — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build walls, blast the terrain, and reroute thousands of furious customers through your own killboxes. All Hands is an incremental tower defence game about defending HQ, engineering excessive solutions, and turning corporate catastrophe into career advancement.