Single-player games like Hitman: Absolution™
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Hitman: Absolution™, 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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Hitman: Blood Money
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Money Talks. Silence Pays. Prepare to Make a Killing. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.
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HITMAN™
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
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Sniper Elite
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
In this stealth-action thriller, Sam Fisher investigates his daughter’s death, only to uncover a betrayal by his former agency. Now hunted, he races against time to thwart a terrorist plot threatening millions.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
In this stealth-action thriller, a terrorist group known as the Engineers launches the Blacklist, a series of escalating attacks on US interests. Only one man can stop them: legendary covert agent Sam Fisher.
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Experience one of the most critically acclaimed stealth-action games of all time. Uncover a conspiracy that hits close to home and stop World War III.
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Medal of Honor: Airborne
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the “All-American” 82nd Airborne Division, and revolutionize the way the war is fought. From a rocky beginning in Sicily to war winning triumphs in the heart of Germany, fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into combat legends.
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Sniper Elite V2
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
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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Far Cry®
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.
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Hitman: Contracts
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.