Single-player games like Look Alive
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Look Alive, 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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Zector 7
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Look Alive.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
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Herd is Coming
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Look Alive.
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
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How to Survive
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Look Alive.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Look Alive.
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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Frozen State
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Look Alive.
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Look Alive.
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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LifeZ - Survival
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Look Alive.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
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PolyZ
Single-player alternative to Look Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Look Alive.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.