Single-player games like New Tales from the Borderlands
Below are 14 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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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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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
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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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Bloodshore
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize.
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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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Dispatch
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
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The Shell Part I: Inferno
Single-player alternative to New Tales from the Borderlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
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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: 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.