Single-player games like Dead Space (2008)
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Space (2008), 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 (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
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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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Dead Space™ 3
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space (2008).
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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DEAD RIG
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space (2008).
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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HORDEKILL
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space (2008).
On an alien planet, slaves revolt against their cannibal masters.
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Ghostship Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
Prepare to board the Heckel and Thomas as a Black ops CDF detachment who were sent to investigate the disappearance of the long lost colonization ship. Keep your team teammates alive to evolve more stories and stand a chance of survival with 3 different endings.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space (2008).
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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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
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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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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Event Horizon
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Space (2008).
Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Space (2008) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space (2008).
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.