Single-player games like Unreal 2: The Awakening
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Unreal 2: The Awakening, 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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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Unreal Gold
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Your prison ship has crash-landed on the fastest, sleekest, most dangerous 3D world ever created. Look around, crystal clear water shimmers, shadows dance and shift, alien architecture fades into the horizon.
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Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor...
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
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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Unreal Tournament 3
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Relive Half-Life.
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Crysis® 3
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
The fate of the world is in your hands. New and old enemies threaten the peace you worked so hard to achieve 24 years ago. Your search for the Alpha Ceph continues, but this time you'll also need to expose the truth behind the C.E.L.L. corporation.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
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The Wheel of Fortune
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The only visual novel dating sim with turbo-folk music playing in the background. Be a loser, get scammed, live with your parents and fail to get laid! Do you have what it takes to turn your luck around?
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Pipe Dreams
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As a master plumber, your goal is to connect pipes of different shapes and sizes to create a perfect destinations to help your Slime!
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Haloo
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
Fight the endless mass of enemies, collect loot, get stronger and Haloo!
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STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Single-player alternative to Unreal 2: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unreal 2: The Awakening.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.