Single-player games like Shooter's Island
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shooter's Island, 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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Fast and Low
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooter's Island.
Play in VR or with traditional FPS controls as you breach and clear your way through 23 handcrafted levels. Fast and Low is the only tactical shooter where a VR player and a keyboard player can team up side-by-side, locally or online, in intense co-op missions.
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The Persistence
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooter's Island.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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Tactical Assault VR
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Shooter's Island.
Tactical Assault VR is an intense tactical shooter where you use real-world CQB (Close Quarters Battles) tactics to stack up, breach doors and eliminate threats. Play solo or join an online co-op special forces unit in missions around the world.
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PAYDAY 2
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shooter's Island.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
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SUPERHOT VR
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooter's Island.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shooter's Island.
As a Ghost Warrior, an elite sniper in a highly trained special ops unit, your unique skills in the art of stalking, target detection, surveillance and shooting accuracy will determine mission success.
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Sniper Elite V2
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shooter's Island.
In the dark days of the end of World War Two amidst the ruins of Berlin, one bullet can change history…
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Containment Initiative
Single-player alternative to Shooter's Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooter's Island.
Containment Initiative is a local co-op VR shooter which can be played by two people on the same PC. Kill zombies alone in VR or have a friend cover you by using the mouse and keyboard. Features include realistic weapon reloading as well as a variety of unlockable guns, upgrades, and loot to find.