Single-player games like Dead Space
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Space, 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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Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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DEAD RIG
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Dismember relentless biological horrors, scavenge for resources, and fight your way through intense, short campaigns with randomized elements in this brutal sci-fi survival horror where your only goal is to survive... and escape the station RESURRECTION_426.
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The Callisto Protocol™
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
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Dead Space™ 3
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Cronos: The New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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STAR WARS™: Squadrons
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Master the art of starfighter combat in the authentic piloting experience STAR WARS™: Squadrons. Feel the adrenaline of first-person multiplayer space dogfights alongside your squadron, and buckle up in a thrilling STAR WARS™ story.