Single-player games like Fallout 76
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Fallout 76, 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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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Tom Clancy’s The Division™
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.
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Generation Zero®
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
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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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 76 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 76.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.