Single-player games like ZIC: Survival
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to ZIC: Survival, 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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LifeZ - Survival
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZIC: Survival.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with ZIC: Survival.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
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.
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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ZIC: Survival.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Survive on Raft
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZIC: Survival.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
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CyberCorp
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
Brutal fast-paced isometric Co-op Loot Shooter in Cyberpunk world. Equipment-based combos. Exotic Weapons and Armor. Easy to start, hard to master. Play solo or with friends.
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ZIC – Zombies in City
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
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DESERT KILL
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
DESERT KILL is a roguelite top-down shooter where you have to destroy evil forces in the most brutal way!
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Koloboke: Sickness Simulator
Single-player alternative to ZIC: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZIC: Survival.
Only Up + First-person rolling mechanics. This combo is pure madness. Try not to fall!