Single-player games like Shadowrun Returns
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shadowrun Returns, 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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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
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Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
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Fallen: A2P Protocol
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Lords of Xulima
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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UnderRail
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.
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The Lamplighters League
Single-player alternative to Shadowrun Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Recruit a team of misfits with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.