Single-player games like Breaking Lockdown
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Breaking Lockdown, 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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Burning Dead Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Burning Dead Reloaded is a first person shooter on rails that immerses you in the thrilling saga of Mike Pacheco, a former security chief now branded a fugitive. Mike finds himself at the heart of a zombie bio-apocalypse caused by a genome altered using CRISPR technology
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Chernobyl inferno
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Go in search of your brother, who got lost in the catacombs of Chernobyl, among aggressive inhabitants mutilated by radiation.
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Zombase
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Zombase is a co-op zombie survival game where your base is your escape plan. Build wheels, propellers, weapons, and traps onto your mobile base, then fight through the horde and try to reach the safe zone without crashing.
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Sometimes They Come Back
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breaking Lockdown.
Clear up the mysteries and horrors of the ominous Freedom Towers and try to salvage your life. Investigate, talk with the other residents to reveal their secrets, solve puzzles, cry, suffer... and try to play through the game — before the game plays through you.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Echoes of the Living
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breaking Lockdown.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Ben and Ed
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?
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The Inspector
Single-player alternative to Breaking Lockdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Breaking Lockdown.
The Inspector is a first-person dreamlike adventure where you explore the coma of your patients, looking for memories that will wake them up.