Single-player games like Ground Zero
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Ground Zero, 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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Zero Below The Sun
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Classic survival horror reimagined with a retro look and modern feel, set in a top secret underground research facility in Antarctica.
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Apocalypse: Floodgates
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Herd 'em up, Mow 'em Down! Mindless Carnage, fast-paced action. Apocalypse: Floodgates is a Third-Person Zombie Horde Shooter featuring post-apocalyptic weapons and deadly traps. Play online with up to four friends or play alone and see how many zombie waves you can take down.
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Apocalive
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Apocalive is a third-person wave based zombie shooter, which comes with several different maps. Collect guns, ammo, health packs and use grenades and shoot at explosive barrels to stop the upcoming hordes. Use your rolling, flipping skills to confuse zombies and avoid their attacks.
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Them and Us
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.
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Resident Evil (1996)
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Your squad has been choppered to a remote mansion to investigate a bio-experiment gone wrong. You’re plunged straight into a deathtrap. Arm yourself, solve puzzles, and unearth mysteries. But beware: every move you make draws you deeper into the deadly embrace of Resident Evil.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
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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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Parasite
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ground Zero.
This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.
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Dino Crisis
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Raw Instinct takes over in this new, adrenaline-pumping journey into Survival Horror. Something is terribly wrong. Your covert mission has gone haywire… now you find yourself pursued by a relentless, prehistoric terror. Suddenly, your mission becomes a desperate fight for survival.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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King Krieg
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Combine abilites to create infinite possibilities of spells and decimate thousands of enemies. King Krieg is a top-down arena roguelite where YOU are the KING and you buy mystical items, find powerful guns, and craft new spells