Single-player games like Alien Dawn
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Alien Dawn, 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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Empower
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Enter a physics based multiplayer PC VR Sci Fi arena sandbox that supports ranged and close combat. Switch dynamically between PC and VR mode and compete against other players and complex AI with fully physics-based weapons in different gamemodes.
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DotStrike
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
DotStrike is a 3D online shooter in which alien invaders in the form of colored spheres fight each other in a seaport. But the aliens are not fighting alone.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
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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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
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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Dead Matter
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
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Vox Machinae
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
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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Stonehenge VR SANDBOX
Single-player alternative to Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A profound learning experience enjoyed by thousands of families when it originated as one of the first room scale VR exhibits in a museum. With the new SANDBOX Mode, learning possibilities are expanded for people of all ages with the ability to build, paint and create their own ancient monument.