Single-player games like New Tales from the Borderlands
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to New Tales from the Borderlands, 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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My Bloody Weekend 2
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
"My Bloody Weekend 2" is a new survival horror experience for the MBW franchise. Try to survive at some new and improoved Quick Time Events, set in a new mansion ready to be explored. Play as a new character for this live action game. A new week is going to pass, a new terror is about to rise.
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The Wolf Among Us 2
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
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Single Player: Horror
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Single Player: Horror is a unique POV interactive experience. You don’t just play the role of Sophie, you see through her eyes. You wake up to find a Psycho Axe Killer in your living room who is desperate to chop you into pieces. Will you survive the night?
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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The Run
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
An FMV horror-thriller. A famous fitness influencer must fight for survival when she's hunted by killers. Your decisions determine whether she lives or dies.
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Superscout
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
"Superscout" is a live-action interactive movie game where you will unravel the secrets of the girls you meet. The love beyond lifetimes, never let it go; the kindness in this life, engraved in your soul. Your choices will change your loved ones’ fate; those who love you will change yours...
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The Quarry
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
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Cut to the Core
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Smash skeletons, defeat dragons, and battle giant golems in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure. Experience the acclaimed 2013 quest that started it all in this standalone campaign jam-packed with fantasy, fun, and mountains of magical loot!
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METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
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Pandora's Box
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A space themed arcade adventure in psychedelic pixel arts, collect coins to customize your ship color and background as you get through far away galaxies.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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 New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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 New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
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 New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Borderlands Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
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Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.