Single-player games like Nearly Dead
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Nearly Dead, 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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Survival Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
Immerse yourself in this epic survival game teeming with strategy and thrills! Confront relentless attacks, fighting tooth and nail to survive in a world overrun by chaos. Select from a diverse pool of 100 heroes, each boasting unique skills, allowing you to craft endless strategic combinations.
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Living the Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
Living the Nightmare is a fast-paced, turn-based, Horror Roguelike about a Slasher who just met his end. Be the Faceless, a Killer slain by a would-be victim and cast into a dark, purgatorial realm. There may be a way out... but there's a lot of monsters to turn inside out first.
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March of the Living
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nearly Dead.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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ZOMBETES
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
Face the undead apocalypse while managing your diabetes. ZOMBETES is a gripping text-based game where every choice is crucial to your survival. Navigate procedural levels, scavenge for insulin, food, and supplies, and fight to stay alive in this unique blend of survival and strategy.
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Dungeon Warriors
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nearly Dead.
Dungeon Warriors is a random dungeon barrage game that we use to polish our lives
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Jaws Of Extinction™
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
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Infectonator: Survivors
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
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Deadly Days
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nearly Dead.
Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Nearly Dead.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Nearly Dead.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Nearly Dead - Live and Let Die
Single-player alternative to Nearly Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nearly Dead.
2D top-down multi co-op action game. Survive the zombies together with a stranger.