Single-player games like Dead Way
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Way, 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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Escape Z
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
Survive the apocalypse with friends in Escape Z. Fight and plan tactics to face hordes of zombies. Choose your character, map and prepare. Survival is your only option.
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Ashes of Paradise: Aetherion
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
Ashes of Paradise is an open-world exploration game blending Medieval, Oriental, and Nordic themes. Defeat powerful bosses and embark on a unique journey in this cooperative action-survival RPG.
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Dead Motherland: Zombie Co-op
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Way.
A dark co-op top-down shooter in a post-soviet zombie apocalypse setting. You appear at a random location in the city. The goal is to get to the transport, and you will make the path yourself. In the day - look for resources and build fortifications. At night - destroy the dead and their bosses!
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Unturned
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Way.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Way.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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BLIND
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Way.
A spooky journey to a haunted mansion. Explore the way you wish but beware for clues that will help guide you along the journey!
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Rabbit Run
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dead Way.
Be a good rabbit and win all levels and help other rabbits that you will face during the levels, we'll see if you can beat your records!
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Hard Steel
Single-player alternative to Dead Way — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Way.
Jump to the arena with your robot and show who's boss... watch out for traps, losing is easy but winning is not!