Single-player games like The Walking Dead
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Walking Dead, 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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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
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The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.
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The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Tell Me Why
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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Perseverance: Part 1
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Perseverance is a horror/drama visual novel about survival and redemption. In Part 1 you play as Jack, a father who is struggling to keep his family together and finds himself in the middle of horrific events.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Beyond: Two Souls
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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The Quarry
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Walking Dead.
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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Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
Single-player alternative to The Walking Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!