Single-player games like Dead Space
Below are 17 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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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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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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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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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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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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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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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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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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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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PRAGMATA
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Pragmata is a unique, sci-fi action-adventure game from Capcom. Follow Hugh, a member of an ill-fated investigation team, and Diana, a young android, as they navigate a lunar facility taken over by rogue AI in search of a way to Earth.
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Scorn
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to Dead Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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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.