Single-player games like Chaos Chain
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Chaos Chain, 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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Rust of New York
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Chaos Chain.
A post-apocalyptic ruin exploration RPG. A Fallout-style game. A highly flexible game design featuring a wealth of skills and equipment, a vast number of locations, and numerous skill checks. The sprawling ruins of a chaotic New York City stand before you!
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Auctus
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
Auctus is a deep sci-fi RPG where your body is a cybernetically enhanced tool of destruction. Talk your way out of danger, sneak past enemies, or shoot your way through. Soar above danger with jet-augmented legs and blast enemies with arm-integrated rockets. Level up, gear up, and solve quests.
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GUTTER: The Cursed
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chaos Chain.
In a lawless, post-apocalyptic, hyper-industrialized gutter, where desperate people, demons, and robots compete in a ruthless power struggle, how long can your character survive?
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Alien AI
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
An Alien AI came to Earth 20 years ago. We believed it was the greatest event in human history. The Alien AI offered us all the knowledge and technology it had. All we had to do was to help it recover and give it resources. We did.. It took over the world and enslaved us. Help us shut it down.
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Chapter 1: Reditus
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
Chapter 1: Reditus is a richly crafted 2.5D JRPG that fuses retro-inspired pixel art with modern 3D environments. Set in a mystical world where magic has vanished, the game follows a father-son duo on a dangerous pilgrimage to restore lost divine power.
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POWERNAUT DECAY
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chaos Chain.
A tough exploration-based platformer with souls-like elements.
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Pegasus: Broken Wings
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
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GRAFT
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
GRAFT, TRANSFORM, SURVIVE. Escape a dark, decaying space station the size of a continent in this story-driven survival horror RPG from the makers of the Shadowrun Trilogy.
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Shadowrun Returns
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
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Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Chaos Chain.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Chaos Chain.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Lawless Lands
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chaos Chain.
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
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Fear & Hunger
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chaos Chain.
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
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Look Outside
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chaos Chain.
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
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Waste Walkers
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chaos Chain.
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
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Disgraced
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chaos Chain.
Disgraced is a unique samurai themed role playing game that allows players to lead a rebellion in a fight for freedom against a cruel and tyrannical Shogun in Feudal Japan.
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Affliction
Single-player alternative to Chaos Chain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chaos Chain.
Affliction is a survival horror shooter designed to engage players with a thrilling storyline, surreal environments, merciless foes, a chilling atmosphere, and an unforgettable gameplay experience. Players must explore, scavenge, and fight in order to survive and live to tell the tale.