Single-player games like Daikatana
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Daikatana, 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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SiN Gold
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
SiN: Gold has returned! Free update for original owners!
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Ion Fury
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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AMID EVIL
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
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HeXen II
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse lurk in the shadows before you. They are Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War. They are the root of all that is evil, but the least of your worries. The last of the three Serpent Riders yet lives.
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STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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Project: Snowblind
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Experience the dramatic intensity of the frontlines of a war through the eyes of the first of a new breed of super soldiers in this gritty and epic first-person action game. An augmented super-soldier must stop a renegade regime from eradicating the civilized world. Hong Kong, 2065. 2nd Lt.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Turok
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
Having defeated the Campaigner, Turok throws the Chronocepter into a waiting volcano to destroy it. Unfortunately the blast awakens an even deadlier force - The Primagen. Once again a Turok is tasked with restoring peace to the land and stopping the Primagen from merging Earth with the nether world.
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THE QUIET MAN™
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
THE QUIET MAN™ delivers an immersive story driven cinematic action experience seamlessly blending high-production live action, realistic CG and pulse-pounding action gameplay.
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MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK
Single-player alternative to Daikatana — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Daikatana.
The curtain rises on yet another never-before-seen Chinese myth: a new saga in the Journey to the West! Based on the original CG movie that became an unprecedented box office smash in China, this unique episode will be playable in exciting kungfu action adventure game!