Single-player games like Zortch
Below are 15 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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MeowGun: Hell Denizen
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
A fast paced silly cutegore FPS! Earth has been taken over by demons. A catgirl codenamed MeowMeow fights back! MEOW, GUN, CLAW and BLOW UP hordes of evil demons, zombies, and other monsters in colorful environments with tons of weapons! The game runs on the FTEQW engine.
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Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Captain Wayne is an intense, fast-action Retro Shooter about a sailor with a SHOTGUN for an ARM!! With a cartoony, hand-drawn art style and gory gameplay, you'll have to mow down enemies through 8 action-packed locales to take back what's yours. ARE YOU READY TO RAISE ANCHOR?
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BRUTAL JOHN 2
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
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DEAD TRASH
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zortch.
Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected. Grab your hammer, collect your nerves and enter the mayhem.
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Dread Templar
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
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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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Beyond Citadel
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
Beyond Citadel is an anime style retro throwback shooter inspired by the classics of the 90's, with realistic gunplay mechanics, anime violence and fast paced combat. Fight your way through the heavily armed mechanical fortress and discover the secret that lies beneath.
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Ion Fury
Single-player alternative to Zortch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zortch.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.