Single-player games like Transience
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Transience, 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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Intravenous 2
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.
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OPERATOR
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
SGW Contracts 2 is a modern warfare shooter set in the Middle East. Play as Raven, Contract Sniper Assassin, as you take out a series of targets across a dramatic single-player campaign. With extreme-range shots exceeding 1000m, gear up for the most challenging entry to the series yet.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 - the sequel to the award-winning next-generation first-person shooter - returns to Sin City. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue America's sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart-pounding action from beginning to end.
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Incursion Red River
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.
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Selaco
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.
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GROUND BRANCH
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
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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PAYDAY 3
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
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Homefront®: The Revolution
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
Homefront®: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.
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Splinter
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Transience.
A first-person psychedelic movie embedded in a 3D environment
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
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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Battlefield™ 6
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Single-player alternative to Transience — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Transience.
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.