Single-player games like Gears 5
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Gears 5, 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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Gears of War: Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gears 5.
Experience the origins of one of gaming’s most acclaimed franchises like never before, faithfully remastered and optimized for PC.
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Resident Evil 6
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
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Sniper Elite 5
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
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OUTRIDERS
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
Outriders’ brutal and bloody combat combines frenetic gunplay, violent powers and deep RPG systems to create a true genre hybrid.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gears 5.
Live the future of despair.The year is 2024 AD. The survivors fought against the remaining threats while trying their best to continue their recovery.Three years passed in the year 2027. In a new world without hope, the time has come to once again resist the fate of the Earth.
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gears 5.
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
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Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
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Borderlands 3
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gears 5.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
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Judgment
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
Fight for the truth and uncover the twisted crime running deep beneath the surface of Tokyo. In this legal thriller , the balance between justice and mercy teeters on the edge.
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Gears of War: E-Day
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gears 5.
Experience Emergence Day – the brutal origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed third-person shooter franchises.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to Gears 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.