Single-player games like Thief
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Thief, 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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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Thief: Deadly Shadows
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City.
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Styx: Master of Shadows
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.
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Assassin's Creed® Syndicate
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
London, 1868. Lead your underworld organization in the midst of the Industrial Revolution to break the corrupt stranglehold on the city in a visceral adventure filled with action, intrigue, and brutal combat.
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
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Hitman: Absolution™
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
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Thief Simulator
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
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Dishonored 2
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
- 10
Thief II: The Metal Age
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
The ultimate thief is back! Tread softly as you make your way through 15 new complex, non-linear levels full of loot to steal and guards to outsmart. Improved enemy AI, new gadgets and a riveting story will draw you into the world of Thief II: The Metal Age, a place of powerful new technologies, fanatical religions and corruption.
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The Dark
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
You come round as your escape pod plummets into the inky waters of a distant flooded planet. Comms are down and power failing. You have no choice but to head out into.. the dark.
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DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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Alpha Protocol™
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Thief.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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Aragami
Single-player alternative to Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief.
Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows. Teleport to any shadow, become invisible, materialize weapons or even summon a shadow dragon to infiltrate the enemy ranks and dispose of your targets.