Single-player games like Boiling Steel
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Boiling Steel, 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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A-Tech Cybernetic VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Built exclusively for VR, A-Tech Cybernetic's Story Mode will offer hours of explosive fun, while Swarm Mode will test your grit in a sci-fi nightmare scenario. Stop the mutant invasion at a futuristic megacorp, controlling an arsenal of weapons with real life movements!
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BONEWORKS
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Boiling Steel.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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Dead Effect 2 VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.
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Metro Awakening
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Boiling Steel.
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
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Guns'n'Stories: Bulletproof VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Boiling Steel.
Guns’n’Stories: Bulletproof is a dynamic VR western shooter that fully immerses players into the ambiance of weird Wild West. Stepping the tangled storyline, you will encounter many intimidating but comical enemies and fight Big Bosses.
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SUPERHOT VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
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Bulletstorm VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Boiling Steel.
Bulletstorm VR is a brutally creative action shooter that puts players in the ass-kicking boots of the hotheaded space mercenary Grayson Hunt as he shoots, kicks, and leashes all he can see across a hostile world in Virtual Reality!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Recall
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Recall is a melee-combat based, rich-story third-person game. You can neutralize your enemies with various methods using punches, knives and different weapons, and you can also find yourself lost in the streets of the city ...
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Bureau of Contacts
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
"Bureau of Contacts" - ghost-hunting game for 1-4 players, in which you'll encounter 2 enemies at once - location itself and the ghosts with most human-like intelligence ever. So...look around and watch what you say!
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BodyRecords
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
BodyRecords is a chilling horror experience, blending bodycam immersion,microphone sensitivity to your voice, and eerie spaces. Work together with teammates to solve puzzles, evade lurking horrors, and escape. True cooperative play and unsettling atmosphere make every moment a tense challenge.
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MoonMiners
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Boiling Steel.
MoonMiners is a cooperative survival simulator of miners in space, in an alternative dystopian future. You take on the role of space miners working for an evil corporation far from home, and it will be much easier for you to die than to do your job.
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Guns'n'Stories: Preface VR
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Put on your VR device and grab a gun for one heck of a wild n' crazy story heading your way! Dive into your grandfather's memories, who once was an infamous bounty hunter! Relive his glory days full of adventures. Dark humor, steampunk and cowboys – this is the world of GUNS`N`STORIES.
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Federation77
Single-player alternative to Boiling Steel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Boiling Steel.
Federation77 - a dynamic VR arena shooter filled with violence and brutality. Shoot, chop and dismember a marginalized society in VR. Post-Soviet cyberpunk and reactive rhythmic gameplay.