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Single-player games like Miasma Caves

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Miasma Caves, 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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    The Spotter: Dig or Die — Steam game cover

    The Spotter: Dig or Die

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Miasma Caves.

    Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Miner: Dig Deep — Steam game cover

    Miner: Dig Deep

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    A cozy mining platformer game. Dig deep into the earth in search of riches. Create your mine, improve your equipment, but don't get too greedy.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Motherload — Steam game cover

    Super Motherload

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.

    2014IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Talos Principle 2 — Steam game cover

    The Talos Principle 2

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

    2023ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caravan SandWitch — Steam game cover

    Caravan SandWitch

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scrap Garden — Steam game cover

    Scrap Garden

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Miasma Caves.

    Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lemma — Steam game cover

    Lemma

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Miasma Caves.

    Immersive first-person parkour in a surreal, physics-driven voxel world. Every move can modify the environment. Surfaces pop in and out of existence at will.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition — Steam game cover

    ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    Follow a gripping, surprise-filled journey as two dissimilar characters form an uneasy partnership in order to survive through a perilous, post-apocalyptic America. 150 years in the future, war and destruction have left the world in ruins with few humans remaining and nature having reclaimed the world.

    2013ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Faction — Steam game cover

    Red Faction

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Miasma Caves.

    JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freedom Planet — Steam game cover

    Freedom Planet

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Miasma Caves.

    Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

    2014ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Miasma Caves.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deep Rock Galactic — Steam game cover

    Deep Rock Galactic

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Miasma Caves.

    Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

    2020Action29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft Legends — Steam game cover

    Minecraft Legends

    Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Miasma Caves.

    Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →