Single-player games like Zortch
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Zortch, 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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Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zortch.
Finish the hunt in this epic finale to the Turok Trilogy. Pick up immediately after the events of Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, with dual protagonists Joseph and Danielle Fireseed, of the Turok family tree, as they battle the titular antagonist Oblivion and its followers, the Flesh Eaters.
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CULTIC
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
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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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
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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Nightmare Reaper
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.
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HROT
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
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Supplice
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Supplice is a stylish throwback shooter inspired by the mid-90s FPS glory days and the legendary Doom modding community. Mixing the retro stylings of 90s era shooters with colorful graphics and frantic gameplay, it creates an experience that's ever so familiar but also exciting and fresh.
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Quake II
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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Turok
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zortch.
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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Quake
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
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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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
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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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Zortch.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.