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Single-player games like CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story, 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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    Kill Yourself — Steam game cover

    Kill Yourself

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Enough with games where death is a nuisance that must be avoided at all costs: in Kill Yourself, death is your goal! But beware, it won't be easy: you'll need to work hard to find all the different ways to end the guy's miserable life.

    2020IndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Party Hard — Steam game cover

    Party Hard

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maneater — Steam game cover

    Maneater

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    POSTAL 2 — Steam game cover

    POSTAL 2

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Despotism 3k — Steam game cover

    Despotism 3k

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia — Steam game cover

    The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Dodge bullets while typing exorcisms at the very same time: Get ready for an electrifying mix between bullet hell and typing game! Turn on both sides of your brain and jump into the adventure of private exorcist Ray Bibbia!

    2019ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Critters for Sale — Steam game cover

    Critters for Sale

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Experience death from the comfort of your seat.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hotline Miami — Steam game cover

    Hotline Miami

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

    2012ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Underground Man — Steam game cover

    The Underground Man

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

    2016IndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Mercury Man — Steam game cover

    The Mercury Man

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    The Mercury Man is an isometric game in the action genre with some adventure elements. It is set in the far grim dark future of its unique sci-fi world.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout 4 — Steam game cover

    Fallout 4

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Dead Redemption 2 — Steam game cover

    Red Dead Redemption 2

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

    2019ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stalker — Steam game cover

    Stalker

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission — Steam game cover

    Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Experience once again the iconic Rail Shooter released for Arcade back in 1987, now reinterpreted in a regular or VR version. The game captures the essence of the original game, immersing you in an action-packed atmosphere reminiscent of the non-stop action films of the 1980s.

    2023Action24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition — Steam game cover

    Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...

    2008ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    T.D.Z. 3 Dark Way of Stalker — Steam game cover

    T.D.Z. 3 Dark Way of Stalker

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    Atmospheric Stalker adventure in the post-Apocalypse world!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CALL OF LDPR — Steam game cover

    CALL OF LDPR

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    I was an ordinary kid from Egorievsk and my life was going bad. But everything changed one fine moment, when my mate, nicknamed Ponos and i, were sucking beer on the bars. LDPR branch was opened in our yard.I also decided that since I can't do anything except jerk off, it's time to go into politics.

    2021ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kazakh Drive — Steam game cover

    Kazakh Drive

    Single-player alternative to CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story.

    You're a simple Kazakh driver. Take a trip along the highway that cuts through the gloomy landscapes of Central Asia full of Eastern wisdom. And be careful.

    2020IndieSimulationRacing1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →