Single-player games like Ice Station Z
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Ice Station Z, 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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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Afterinfection
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ice Station Z.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
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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Dead District: Survival
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
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Military Conflict: Vietnam
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ice Station Z.
It’s 1968 in Vietnam, the time to “Make War Not Love”. Side with the Viet Cong or U.S. Army in this intense, fast-paced FPS set in the Vietnam War — now with co-op zombie mode. Choose from 300+ weapons of destruction. Kill or be killed!
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ice Station Z.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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The Casebook of Arkady Smith
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
An open world investigation game set in a futuristic city. Take on the role of Arkady Smith, the famous investigator in this third person adventure game.
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Rain Station Z
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Multiplayer Open World Zombie Survival. The acid rain never stops, neither do the dead. Survive the apocalypse alone or with friends.
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Along Came A Spider
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ice Station Z.
In a world spun from moving silk, you must guide your resourceful spider back to their web, solving puzzles and catching flies along the way in this minimalist, stylized indie platformer.
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Saturn 9
Single-player alternative to Ice Station Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ice Station Z.
A short sci-fi horror adventure. All contact with the Saturn 9 has been lost, and you’re sent aboard to find out why. Explore the silent ship, solve its puzzles and uncover what happened to the crew.