Single-player games like The Hell Hives
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Hell Hives, 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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Death Park 2
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.
Shoot terrifying monsters and a killer clown in a haunted city full of nightmares. Explore 8 locations, solve puzzles, switch between dream and reality, and make choices that shape your escape. Death Park 2 is a horror FPS with multiple endings and a boss fight.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.
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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.
It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi residence of a wealthy Romanian Count.
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Species: Unknown
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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The Persistence
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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Depth
Single-player alternative to The Hell Hives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.
Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.