Single-player games like Alien: Isolation
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Alien: Isolation, 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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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Directive 8020
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Hello Neighbor
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alien: Isolation.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
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Total War: ATTILA
Single-player alternative to Alien: Isolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...