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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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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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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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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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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Echoes of the Living
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
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Fear The Timeloop
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ground Zero.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
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Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
Single-player alternative to Ground Zero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.
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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 Action and Indie with Ground Zero.
Parasite is a non-linear retro platformer with a mix of action and puzzles. The player controls an alien worm wanting to get rid of a human space colony on his planet. There are multiple shapes to unlock and to switch between to facilitate the navigation and sabotage the complex.
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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