Single-player games like The Dead Await: Prologue
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Dead Await: Prologue, 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 PLUNDER-亡命掠夺者
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
《Death Plunder-亡命掠夺者》is a 2D pixel platen survival game,You'll play as a mortal who risks everything for a treasure,Deep into the quarantined zombie island,plunder all kinds of loot and supplies To ensure survival.
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The Dead Await
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
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Terminal Falls
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Tense top-down extraction shooter. Build your gear, loot, fight until your last HP & discover mystery of a town devastated by a war that never was. Your chance for survival is low, but never zero...
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Reincarnation Squad
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
An "Infinite Genre" style game. Enter diverse worlds—featuring zombies, fantasy, martial arts, and more—either solo or with friends, then return to the "Main God" hub. Experiment with every imaginable ability.
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Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
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Card Maker Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Create unique cards, increase your cards’ power, form teams, face strategic battles, and build legendary bloodlines. In Card Maker Simulator, every card has a story, rivalries, marriages, pets, and glory. A card creation game where you create your own legends!
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66 Lives
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
You have 66 lives. Survive the Horde, loot ,mine, farm, upgrade town, and raise an army. Descend through 3 cursed portals — each different — collect fragments, cards and items, unlock a 200+ node skill tree, 15+ devastating abilities ,open the final boss portal. No tutorial. No story. Just play.
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Iron Pilgrims
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
A tactics RPG set in a postapocalyptic fantasy setting. Fight monsters in deadly turn-based battles, manage a roster of 20+ unique heroes, level the heroes up and learn 90+ powerful skills, and gather loot and gold to better outfit your heroes and upgrade your town's buildings.
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Dead Ground
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!
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Kontrakt
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
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Danger Gazers
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.
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Dungeons of Clay
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.