Single-player games like Hitman: Absolution™
Below are 15 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 World of Assassination
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
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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.
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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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Mafia: The Old Country
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
Uncover the origins of organized crime in Mafia: The Old Country, a gritty mob story set in the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily. Fight to survive as Enzo Favara and prove your worth to the Family in this immersive third-person action-adventure.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
World-renowned Kojima Productions brings the Metal Gear Solid franchise to Steam with METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES. Play as the legendary hero Snake and infiltrate a Cuban military base to rescue the hostages. Can you make it out alive?
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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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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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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XIII
Single-player alternative to Hitman: Absolution™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hitman: Absolution™.
You play as “XIII”, a man without an identity, in a solo campaign with numerous twists and turns. Inspired by the eponymous graphic novel, the game features a completely reinvented and unique cel-shading design. In XIII, players can also take part in fierce multi-player fights.