Single-player games like Mad Max
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Mad Max, 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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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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RAGE 2
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mad Max.
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
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Just Cause™ 3
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
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DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
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Pacific Drive
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
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Days Gone
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
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Wreckfest
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mad Max.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Discover Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, the classic pirate action-adventure game from 2013. Command your ship, hunt Templars and carve your legend as Edward Kenway across the Caribbean's Golden Age of Piracy.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
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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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
A storm is coming. Venture into the complete Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC; forge your own path through this open-world action adventure and uncover its hidden wonders. Brought to you by Sucker Punch Productions, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Studios.
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mad Max.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Bully: Scholarship Edition
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
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Mafia
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Just Cause 2
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
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Just Cause 4 Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!
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Just Cause
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mad Max.
Your world...Your rules!
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theHunter: Primal
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
Hunt - Explore - SurviveThe most realistic prehistoric survival game ever created. Featuring a huge Cretaceous environment populated by horrifying dinosaur all-stars, such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Utahraptor, Velociraptor and Quetzalcoatlus.
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Renegade Ops
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mad Max.
Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.
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theHunter Classic
Single-player alternative to Mad Max — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mad Max.
The most realistic hunting experience awaits. Explore 12 reserves and hunt 45 unique species, ranging from waterfowl to big game. Over 100 weapons from state-of-the art rifles to bows. Customize your load-out with stands, blinds and dogs. Play alone or in multiplayer with up to 7 friends.