Single-player games like Dead Grid
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Grid, 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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Nowhere Prophet
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
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Z Dawn
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
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Urban Strife
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
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Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
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Death Roads: Tournament
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Combine deadly racing, deckbuilding, and roguelite style to get car battles unlike anything before! Choose a driver, car, weapons, and sponsors to overcome tactical encounters. Adapt to an ever-changing race to come out on top and earn entry into the last safe haven on the Divided States of America.
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Dead State: Reanimated
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
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Underboard
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Grid.
Tactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team as you explore maps full of monsters, build synergies, equip items and cast spells to support your team during battles and help them escape the Underboard.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dead Grid.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Grid.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Grid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dead Grid.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.