Single-player games like Earth's Shadow
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Earth's Shadow, 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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Dreadhunter
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Plough through hordes of deadly monsters and defeat vicious bosses in an intense fast paced shooter RPG where all items are “legendary”, levels are ever-changing and combat is razor-sharp.
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Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Meet the completely reworked legendary game loved by millions of players worldwide! Alien Shooter 2 - the Legend is an ambitious follow-up to the famous Alien Shooter series.
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The Surge
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
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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Undungeon
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Undungeon is a gorgeous Action/RPG driven by intense real-time combat and an immensely rich science fiction story. Travel between dimensions and change the world around you in an attempt to reconstruct the shattered Multiverse.
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AI LIMIT
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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UNYIELDER
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
UNYIELDER is an intense Boss-rush Movement-FPS. Assemble your arsenal of destruction, smash your way through waves of bosses, face your own Final-Boss.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Returnal™
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earth's Shadow.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
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BloodLust Shadowhunter
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Bloodlust is a dungeon crawling / action RPG experience that will allow players to explore the dark underworld of a forgotten society of Vampires and their disciplines, all while trying to battle for hierarchy among the clans in search of their sire.
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BloodLust 2: Nemesis
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Bloodlust 2: Nemesis is a "Hack 'n Slash - Dungeon Crawling - Action RPG" experience that will allow players to explore the dark underworld of a forgotten society of Vampires and their disciplines, all while trying to solve the secrets to their bloodline's scientifically enhanced monstrous power.
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Last Half of Darkness - Society of the Serpent Moon
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Society of the Serpent Moon is a "Point and Click" style adventure where the player investigates and explores a mysterious small European town, uncovering the secrets behind Vampire-like murders that are plaguing its dark streets. BONUS: 3 Additional "Last Half" Games included FREE!
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Lost City of Vampires
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earth's Shadow.
Sent by the Council to hunt the "lost city" factions... You must destroy an entire bloodline and put an end to an unsanctioned blood war by remaining the last vampire standing in this single player shooter challenge. (Not Exactly, but Similar to a Battle Royale)
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Vampirem
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Earth's Shadow.
Another story of Bloodlust, this time told through the eyes of Ravenblood; part Ghost... part Vampire... and 100% bada$$. His journey in search of lost strength and revenge will take you through the dark tombs and dungeons of the Vampirem.
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NightFeed
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earth's Shadow.
Play alone or invite up to 3 friends in this co-op online action rogue survival. A coven of Shadow Hunters perform a nightly feed across the moors, consuming the dead and acquiring relics from the graves, all to provide an even stronger protection against the darkness during the next NightFeed!
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Last Half of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Your aunt sure was a strange one. She was some sort of witch or something. A good witch though, practicing only good spells and magic. In fact, she was working on a potion just before she was killed. Now the secret will go to the grave with her... unless you can find the missing ingredients.
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Edge Of Evil
Single-player alternative to Earth's Shadow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earth's Shadow.
Descend into terror in this first-person psychological horror experience as you follow your lost kitten into an ancient pirate crypt. Explore, shoot and dig for clues…literally, while unravelling a chilling mystery, all in a desperate bid to rescue your helplessly curious pet from this dark tomb.