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Best single-player Steam games

  • 50 games
  • Single-player
  • Mostly Positive+
  • Updated Nov 11, 2026

Top 10

  1. Rank 01

    About: Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Action
    • 2011
  2. Rank 02

    About: Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Indie
    • 2006
  3. Rank 03

    About: Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

    • $59.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Strategy
    • 2023
  1. Rank 04

    About: You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Indie
    • 2016
  2. Rank 05

    About: Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2020
  3. Rank 06

    About: A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2023
  4. Rank 07

    About: You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.

    • $49.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • RPG
    • 2015
  5. Rank 08

    About: Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Action
    • 2009
  6. Rank 09

    About: The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    • $13.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Strategy
    • 2018
  7. Rank 10

    About: A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Simulation
    • 2015

Ranked 11 to 50

  1. Rank 11

    Schedule I

    About: From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2025
  2. Rank 12

    Subnautica

    About: Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Indie
    • 2018
  3. Rank 13

    Hollow Knight

    About: Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2017
  4. Rank 14

    The Forest

    About: As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2018
  5. Rank 15

    People Playground

    About: Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2019
  6. Rank 16

    Portal 2

    About: The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2011
  7. Rank 17

    Deep Rock Galactic

    About: 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!

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2020
  8. Rank 18

    Fallout: New Vegas

    About: Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2010
  9. Rank 19

    Risk of Rain 2

    About: Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2020
  10. Rank 20

    Undertale

    About: UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Indie
    • 2015
  11. Rank 21

    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

    About: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2014
  12. Rank 22

    ULTRAKILL

    About: ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2020
  13. Rank 23

    Euro Truck Simulator 2

    About: Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

    • $4.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Indie
    • 2012
  14. Rank 24

    Hades

    About: Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2020
  15. Rank 25

    Satisfactory

    About: Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    • $39.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2024
  16. Rank 26

    Doki Doki Literature Club!

    About: The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    • Free
    • Deck Playable
    • Indie
    • 2017
  17. Rank 27

    Vampire Survivors

    About: Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    • $4.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2022
  18. Rank 28
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    R.E.P.O.

    About: An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2025
  19. Rank 29

    PEAK

    About: PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    • $4.95 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2025
  20. Rank 30

    RimWorld

    About: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    • $34.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2018
  21. Rank 31

    Factorio

    About: Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    • $35.00 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2020
  22. Rank 32

    Dispatch

    About: Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2025
  23. Rank 33

    Balatro

    About: The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2024
  24. Rank 34

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    About: Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.

    • $39.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2025
  25. Rank 35

    Titanfall® 2

    About: Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2020
  26. Rank 36

    American Truck Simulator

    About: Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.

    • $4.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Indie
    • 2016
  27. Rank 37

    Half-Life 2

    About: Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2004
  28. Rank 38

    DOOM

    About: Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2016
  29. Rank 39

    Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

    About: The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.

    • $44.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2017
  30. Rank 40

    Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

    About: Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2021
  31. Rank 41

    Portal

    About: Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

    • $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2007
  32. Rank 42

    Don't Starve Together

    About: Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    • $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2016
  33. Rank 43

    Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    About: Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    • $7.49 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Strategy
    • 2010
  34. Rank 44

    Kerbal Space Program

    About: In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    • $39.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Indie
    • 2015
  35. Rank 45

    Stray

    About: Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Indie
    • 2022
  36. Rank 46

    Life is Strange - Episode 1

    About: Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    • Free
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2015
  37. Rank 47

    Slay the Spire

    About: We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    • $24.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Strategy
    • 2019
  38. Rank 48

    Inscryption

    About: Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    • $19.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Strategy
    • 2021
  39. Rank 49

    Teardown

    About: Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

    • $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Verified
    • Action
    • 2022
  40. Rank 50

    How to Fish

    About: A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    • $7.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
    • Deck Playable
    • Action
    • 2026

About this list

The strongest single-player Steam games — 50 titles carrying the official Steam Single-player category, each with at least 100 player reviews at Mostly Positive or better. Multiplayer-only and always-online titles are excluded at the source: if Valve hasn't labeled it Single-player, it doesn't appear here. Ranked by review score first, audience size second, so an acclaimed 400-review indie sits above a franchise blockbuster with mediocre scores. Unlike the default Steam storefront, which weights recent release date and sales rank heavily and buries older beloved games under this year's launches, imho.run ranks by proven review consensus — so classics compete on equal footing. imho.run pulls category data straight from Steam's store API. Refreshed daily; newly released titles enter the list the day after they cross the review threshold.

Frequently asked

What counts as a single-player game on this list?

Any Steam title carrying the official Single-player category — story campaigns, sandbox and survival games, RPGs, and puzzle games you can finish solo. Multiplayer-only and always-online titles are excluded at the source: if Valve hasn't labeled it Single-player, it doesn't appear here.

Are these single-player games fully offline?

Most are playable without an internet connection once installed, though some require a one-time Steam activation and a few use online features for cloud saves or optional extras. If true offline play matters to you, check the game's store page for the Single-player category alongside any online-only notes.

How are the single-player games ranked?

By review consensus first, audience size second — so a 400-review indie with a 95% rating can outrank a franchise blockbuster with mediocre scores. Unlike the Steam storefront, which weights recent release date and sales rank, imho.run lets older classics compete with new releases on equal footing.

How often is the single-player list updated?

Once per day. Newly released titles enter the list the day after they cross the 100-review Mostly Positive threshold; imho.run's scraper refreshes the catalogue daily over the public Steam Store API.

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