Single-player games like Night of the Dead
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Night of the 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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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night of the Dead.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Night of the Dead.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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The Front
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Night of the Dead.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Night of the Dead.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Night of the 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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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night of the Dead.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night of the Dead.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night of the Dead.
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
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Night of the Dead.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night of the Dead.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Night of the Dead.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night of the Dead.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Rocket Squad: Infinity
Single-player alternative to Night of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Night of the Dead.
Rocket Squad is a team-based first-person shooter. Infiltrate perilous planets, gather resources, and return safely to your shelter. Utilize each character's unique abilities and strategically form your team to restore order to the universe.