Single-player games like Alpha Response
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Alpha Response, 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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Operation Athena
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Alpha Response.
Operation Athena is a tactical first-person shooter inspired by classic tactical shooters, with modern mechanics and a more action-oriented pace. Play solo or with up to 4 players as an Athena Team Operator fighting against a global terrorist threat.
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Obscurity: Unknown Threat
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Alpha Response.
Obscurity: Unknown Threat is a horror shooter game where a team of soldiers must survive against a hidden foe. The game contains both conventional symmetrical FPS game modes as well as asymmetrical battles vs the Obscurity.
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SWAT Commander: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
The FREE PROLOGUE version of our tactical squad shooter. In SWAT Commander: Prologue, you join an elite special forces unit. Team up with other operatives, manage your equipment, and most importantly – complete your mission successfully.
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Red Crucible Assault
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Alpha Response.
Fight through forgotten WWII bunkers and Cold War black sites, battling rival forces to uncover lost esoteric technology buried from history. Every firefight brings you closer to secrets that were never meant to resurface—and powers that could rewrite the modern world.
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Iron Offensive: Helmet Cam Extraction Shooter
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
You are not a scavenger on endless walks. You are a Soldier in a Tactical Shooter with a Helmet Cam perspective. Action from second zero, dodging artillery, drones, and the most tactical AI on the market in an intense field that wants you dead. Extract weapons, upgrades, currency, and killstreaks.
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THE WASTE
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
THE WASTE – a brutal and stylish action game about bloody street shootouts and survival in a city after a global collapse, where authority has fallen, and crime thrives. Two factions fight for control over the city, its resources, and survivors.
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OASIS II
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
OASIS II is a 1-5 player co-op FPS inspired by extraction shooters and roguelikes. Travel across an alternate-history Japan while building your reputation with various contacts across the country.
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Redast
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Alpha Response.
Redast: Form a team, enter the field, and hunt entities across the world — from the Far East to the Middle East, from the Arctic to Europe. Observe, communicate, and uncover the unknown. As you try to understand them, they begin to understand you.
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PAYDAY 2
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
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Heat
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
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Ready or Not
Single-player alternative to Alpha Response — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alpha Response.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.