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
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.
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A Game About Digging A Hole™
Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
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CLEAR RED
Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Miasma Caves.
A first-person roguelike buried in a Cold War ICBM bunker under alien siege. Defend the missile. Drill through soil, tunnels, caves and even ancient temples. Collect resources, craft items, upgrade everything. Burn coal to keep bunker running. Find two launch keys. Fire. Kill the mothership. Repeat.
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Gobby Gang
Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.
A chaotic co-op physics game where you and your friends push, pull, and reshape collapsing voxel caves to move massive objectives that no one can carry alone. Every run creates new disasters, clutch saves, and shared moments worth retelling.
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Mining Merchant
Single-player alternative to Miasma Caves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Miasma Caves.
Mining Merchant is a relaxing mining and shopkeeping adventure game. Mine by day to uncover rare ores and gems, then craft jewelry to sell in your shop by night. Rebuild your uncle’s business solo or in co-op and uncover the mystery behind the nightly earthquakes.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!