Single-player games like First Day
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to First Day, 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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HitTube
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
HitTube is an open-world co-op roguelite looter shooter where you become a post-apocalyptic video blogger in a procedurally generated, destructible New York. Shoot, loot, trade and use magical cards to gain superpowers.
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Rebirth evolution
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
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Urban Strife
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
- 4
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with First Day.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with First Day.
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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The Dead Await
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with First Day.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
- 8
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
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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Garbage
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.
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Save Home
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
You have inherited a farm! What is waiting for you on arrival at the place ?! Huge field with a bunch of the crop? The big and vast land? Not a bit of it! Your new farm it is - an old junk! Next to that, nestled ancient cemetery! Restore and improve and protect his farm from attack undead!
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Attack Of Insects
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with First Day.
Love insects? And insects that are two or even ten times more than you? If you love, then - it's fine, you will definitely be pleased with our insects. And if you do not love, then you will be happy, because you have to shoot on insects and watch them fly apart!
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Anime And Your Life
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
This is more than a game. This is your whole life!
- 13
First Day: Home Defender
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Build and protect your home after a nuclear apocalypse!
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Time of the Clones
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Thanks to an unsuccessful experiment, the scientific complex found itself in a time loop. Any ideas how to fix this?!
- 15
Mad World Survivors
Single-player alternative to First Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Day.
Mad World Survivors is a fast-paced rogue-lite shooter where you battle relentless hordes of monsters in a world consumed by chaos. Players must survive intense combat where every decision could be their last