Single-player games like Zompiercer
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Zompiercer, 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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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Survive the Nights
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zompiercer.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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The Final Station
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
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Infection Free Zone
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Fargone
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Zompiercer.
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Zompiercer.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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The Long Drive
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
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The Infected
Single-player alternative to Zompiercer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zompiercer.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.