Single-player games like Half-Life: Blue Shift
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Half-Life: Blue Shift, 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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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Half-Life: Source
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998. Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game, enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effects, and more.
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Synthesis of Corruption
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.
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Xeno Swarm - 异虫强袭
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
"Xeno Swarm" is a hardcore side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game. Team up with your allies to battle overwhelming swarms of alien creatures, engage in life-or-death showdowns with colossal bosses on extraterrestrial battlefields, and relive the exhilarating thrill of bullet-hell mayhem!
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Relive Half-Life.
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Lock and load into the Starship Troopers universe and join the Mobile Infantry in the most realistic depiction of war ever made! Experience an original story in this action-packed, first-person retro shooter. Would you like to know more?
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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Contraband Police
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
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Galaxy Burger
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
🌴👩🍳🍔 A stress-free cooking game that lets you relax! Cook up burgers for mecha cats and aliens. Play solo or with up to 7 friends!
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Borderlands 3
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
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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Borderlands 4
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
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Borderlands Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the...
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Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
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Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Blue Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Blue Shift.
Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.