Single-player games like It Comes In Waves
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to It Comes In Waves, 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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Outflow
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Experience Atlas’s journey in the future world to save his planet. Beat the enemies with unique mechanics and explore a huge open world in this action RPG.
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Everfall 1999
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
A very basic cyberpunk action game.
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No Sun To Worship
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
A short, minimalist stealth-action game about the importance of art. We painted the sky ashen gray. Burned the heavens to starve each other. Now we walk an endless cemetery of regret.
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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
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Binary Domain
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!
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Tell Some Story: Foz
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Action-adventure + Third person shooter. The year is 2042, the near future, the gloomy world of cyberpunk will offer you the role of detective Foz. Random circumstances drag the hero into a showdown between gangs and corporations, where he has to make a choice on whose side he is.
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DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
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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Miasma Chronicles
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
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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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance. May the Force be with you!
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Stalker
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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The Chameleon
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A tense stealth game with super-powers, set in the 70s, filled with glorious fat pixels. Transform into enemies, dash, teleport, slow time and super-punch your way through this moody retro stealth game.
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UNDETECTED
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
Stealth your way through the shadows and uncover a corporate conspiracy. Become a cyber-augmented agent in this gameplay-focused stealth game that brings classic sneaking to the modern era.
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Luckily, My Arm Is A Shotgun
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with It Comes In Waves.
You are lost on a cursed island full of monsters... Luckily, your arm is a shotgun! Explore a mini open world and blast your way through waves of demons in this short adventure.
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Under A Star Long Cold
Single-player alternative to It Comes In Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with It Comes In Waves.
You have 30 minutes to loot this place and pay your debts before the planet is destroyed. Intense stealth-action with permadeath. An exploration of agency and hope.