Single-player games like When I Was Young
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to When I Was Young, 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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Operation Highjump: The Fall of Berlin
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
In the last days of World War II, lead a suicide mission to hunt down the enemy leaders, steal their experimental technology and recover the art pieces and relics. A combination of frenetic action, tactical missions and an explosive run & gun platforming adventure.
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HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 2
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Hundred Fires is an action, stealth and infiltration game with an exciting story and incredible cinematics. This is a one man infiltration mission, you alone cannot defeat the entire Soviet army, you must use your best skills to hide, sneak away from the enemy and go undetected.
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Men of War: Vietnam
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
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Battle of Finland: Winter War
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Battle of Finland: Winter War is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer. The Soviet Union began the conquest of Finland on November 30 1939, thus the Winter War was started. Can you help small Finland stop the red army steam rolling over Finland?
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Sword of Destiny
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Fight to restore the peace and justice in the world by thwarting the treacherous plans of the King, who turns the innocent into mindless skeletons to conquer the world.
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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway™
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a totally redesigned online component.
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Frontline: The Great Patriotic War
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
A tactical scale strategy game that invites the players to take command of the URSS forces in an epic struggle for the control of Russia during World War Two.
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Men of Valor
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles.
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Vietcong
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Vietcong-survival-shooter in the first person with elements of survival, which is set in Vietnam, in the vicinity of My tho.
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Medal of Honor: Airborne
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the “All-American” 82nd Airborne Division, and revolutionize the way the war is fought. From a rocky beginning in Sicily to war winning triumphs in the heart of Germany, fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into combat legends.
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Medal of Honor™
Single-player alternative to When I Was Young — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.