Single-player games like STERN
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to STERN, 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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BUTCHER
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
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The Surge
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with STERN.
Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Maneater
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
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Immortal: Unchained
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
Unleashed and unforgiving. Can you rise to the challenge? Immortal: Unchained is the latest addition to the genre of ultra-hardcore action RPGs. Take the role of a living weapon, unleashed to stop the source of a cataclysmic event threatening to end all worlds.
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with STERN.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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Valfaris
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
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Edge of Dreams
Single-player alternative to STERN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
Edge of Dreams is a first person action with roguelike elements. You are the lone survivor in this strange space station. Shoot, explore, kill guards, create builds from items and skills, DIE, and repeat.