Single-player games like SCP Operations
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to SCP Operations, 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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Miasma Chronicles
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SCP Operations.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with SCP Operations.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SCP Operations.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with SCP Operations.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SCP Operations.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SCP Operations.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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The Adventurers
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with SCP Operations.
The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.
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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with SCP Operations.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SCP Operations.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SCP Operations.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SCP Operations.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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SCP Strategy
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SCP Operations.
Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.
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Cyber Attack
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with SCP Operations.
Take control of an elite global team of hackers, intercepting communications between corporations, governments, and criminals all around the world. You can protect humanity by exposing messages between dangerous individuals or exploit corporations to increase your fortune. The choice is yours.
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Destructions
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SCP Operations.
Destructions – the game which gives an opportunity of complete damage at the levels which were created with an idea of destruction.
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Relaxing Kite
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Wait! Pause for a moment and immerse yourself in some relaxing entertainment. Sit back, put on your headphones, and relax. The unique audiovisual experience will allow you to finally cut yourself off from everything and enjoy the game.
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Graveyard Architect
Single-player alternative to SCP Operations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SCP Operations.
Can you manage to create an ideal cemetery? Will you provide appropriate conditions for its residents? Be careful! If you do not meet all the requirements, you will have to deal with the rebellious undead.