Single-player games like The First Descendant
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The First Descendant, 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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Warframe
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The First Descendant.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
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Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Descendant.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
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Borderlands 4
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Descendant.
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
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Nienix: Cosmic Warfare
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Descendant.
Search for the legendary lost artifact Nienix through galaxies in conflict! An open world space action RPG adventure that can be played both alone and together!
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The First Descendant.
From the creators of Batman: Arkham, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a genre-defying third-person action shooter where the ultimate band of misfits must do the impossible: Kill the Justice League.
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Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012)
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The First Descendant.
Earth is burning. The Reapers have taken over and other civilizations are falling like dominoes. Lead the final fight to save humanity and take back Earth from these terrifying machines, Commander Shepard.
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Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The First Descendant.
Return to the Mass Effect universe & lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Descendant.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The First Descendant.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Destiny 2
Single-player alternative to The First Descendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Descendant.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.