Single-player games like Police Stories: The Academy
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Police Stories: The Academy, 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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Police Stories
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
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Ghostward
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Trapped on the graveyard shift, four survivors must band together to banish a relentless spirit, or escape before it hunts them down.
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Police Stories 2
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Serve the law. Protect the innocent. Command the grittiest precinct in town in Police Stories 2 - a brutal tactical top-down shooter where arrest is the goal, force is the last resort, and every decision has an outcome.
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Tankii
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
A slow paced, multiplayer bullet hell where everyone is a tank.
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Ripper
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Ripper is a top-down shooter with fully destructible environments, fog of war, and Steam multiplayer. Break through walls, survive enemy waves, and battle your friends.
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Spacecraft Tactics
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
Spacecraft Tactics is a 2D turn-based tactical space game. Save the last rebel outpost in the campaign. Develop a strategy, execute it in tactical battles and micromanage your ship. Play various game modes single or multiplayer. Create your own ships, scenes or mods and share them.
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Hot Brass
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
As an elite SWAT operator, think fast and put your tactics to the test to master a series of missions and save lives. Summon your team of up to four players in online and local co-op, or hone your skills solo. Don’t just be the best—be the best of the best.
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Intravenous 3: Borderline
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Tense stealth action, tactical hardcore gunplay, and missions & story shaped by the way you play. Step into the shoes of Gideon, a feared mercenary with nothing left to lose, and carve a bloody path of revenge through deep systemic stealth and brutal tactical gunplay.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Police Stories: The Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.