Best single-player Steam games
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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.
Top picks
01Terraria
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
2011ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
02Garry's Mod
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.
2006IndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
03Baldur's Gate 3
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.
2023StrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
04Stardew Valley
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?
2016IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
05Phasmophobia
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.
2020ActionIndie19.99 USDSimilar games →
06Lethal Company
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
2023ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →- Try the recommender →
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07The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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.
2015RPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
08Left 4 Dead 2
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.
2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
09Bloons TD 6
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.
2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
10BeamNG.drive
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
2015SimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
11Schedule I
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.
2025ActionStrategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
12Subnautica
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.
2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
13Hollow Knight
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.
2017ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
14The Forest
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.
2018ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
15People Playground
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
2019ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
16Portal 2
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
17Deep Rock Galactic
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 PlayableSimilar games →
18Fallout: New Vegas
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
19Risk of Rain 2
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.
2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
20Undertale
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
21The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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.
2014Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
22ULTRAKILL
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.
2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
23Euro Truck Simulator 2
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.
2012IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
24Hades
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.
2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
25Satisfactory
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!
2024StrategyIndie39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
26Doki Doki Literature Club!
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.
2017IndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSimilar games →
27Vampire Survivors
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!
2022ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
28R.E.P.O.
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.
2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
29PEAK
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?
2025ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
30RimWorld
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.
2018StrategyIndie34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
31Factorio
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.
2020StrategyIndie35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
32Dispatch
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!
2025ActionStrategy23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
33Balatro
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.
2024StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
34Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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.
2025ActionRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
35Titanfall® 2
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.
2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
36American Truck Simulator
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.
2016IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
37Half-Life 2
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.
2004Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
38DOOM
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.
2016Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
39Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
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.
2017StrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
40Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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.
2021StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
41Portal
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.
2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
42Don't Starve Together
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
2016ActionStrategy14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
43Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
44Kerbal Space Program
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.
2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
45Stray
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.
2022IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
46Life is Strange - Episode 1
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.
2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSimilar games →
47Slay the Spire
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!
2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
48Inscryption
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...
2021StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
49Teardown
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.
2022ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
50Resident Evil 4
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
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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