Single-player games like Outbreak: Epidemic
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak: Epidemic, 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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Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.
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Resident Evil 6
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
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Gears 5
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: Epidemic.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Save the world without hope. Year 2040. An action TPS where you will become one of the EDF soldiers and fight against the invaders from outer space which ruined the world. In the world settings which differs from the original "EARTH DEFENSE FORCE" series, more than 50 missions in five difficulties await for your challenge.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
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.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: Epidemic.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
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Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.
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Outbreak: Lost Hope
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
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Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.
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Outbreak: Contagious Memories
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.
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Dinobreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror
Single-player alternative to Outbreak: Epidemic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: Epidemic.
Cross-platform online 4-player co-op survival horror returns in this early 2000s-inspired, undead apocalyptic nightmare.