Single-player games like Red Faction
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Red Faction, 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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Red Faction II
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
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Red Faction®: Armageddon™
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
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Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.
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OmniGun
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Obliterate hostile automatons in this vibrant physics-based roguelite FPS. Master the OmniGun, a prototype gun capable of firing any ammunition imaginable as you shoot, explode, burn, shock, slice, freeze, shrink, and impale your way to the exit.
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Exovoid Carnage
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
This HEART-POUNDING WAVE-BASED ARENA SHOOTER catapults you into an alien-infested space station. SHOOT, SHRED, and SURVIVE as you crush enemy hordes, dodge chaos, and challenge yourself to set a new record. The battle escalates with every second—GET IN THERE and FIGHT!
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Diluvian Ultra: Awakening
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Diluvian Ultra: Awakening shows a never-before seen part of Diluvian Ultra's story, preceding the events of the main game. As a young Diluvian Knight, stage a heroic defense against insurmountable odds, in this single-player FPS with a retro aesthetic and fast-paced, strategic combat.
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Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.
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Diluvian Ultra
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Diluvian Ultra is a single-player, first-person shooter focusing on a retro aesthetic and fast-paced, strategic combat. The game is set in its own expansive fictive universe. Rather than gritty or dark, Diluvian Ultra is colorful and fantastical, like the cover of pulp sci-fi novels of the past.
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Just Cause™ 3
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
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Besiege
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
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Bridge Constructor
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become an appraised bridge engineer and architect in Bridge Constructor. Create and design your own constructions and watch the cars and trucks pass over them - or see them fall and crash while your inferior creations collapse due to weight and the laws of physics!
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World of Goo
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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Gears of War: E-Day
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Experience Emergence Day – the brutal origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed third-person shooter franchises.
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Battlefield™ 1
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Mercenaries VR
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Hardcore VR shooter where you take part in various special operations.
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Saints Row: The Third
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
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Saints Row 2
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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Saints Row
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
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Summoner
Single-player alternative to Red Faction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Red Faction.
Summoners have toppled empires and challenged gods. They are venerated as saviours and feared as destroyers. With rings crafted by the ancient Khosani, the gifted can call forth demons, dragons, and elementals, but only the strongest can control the forces they unleash.