Single-player games like Escape Z
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Escape Z, 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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The Left Behind
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
The Left Behind is a solo and co-op post-apocalyptic survival game. Explore a typical Dutch open-world landscape at daytime and beware of hordes of enemies coming in at night. Loot and hunt to survive. Each night, the game becomes increasingly challenging. How long will you survive?
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Apocalypse: Floodgates
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
Herd 'em up, Mow 'em Down! Mindless Carnage, fast-paced action. Apocalypse: Floodgates is a Third-Person Zombie Horde Shooter featuring post-apocalyptic weapons and deadly traps. Play online with up to four friends or play alone and see how many zombie waves you can take down.
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Girls vs Zombies
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
Third person wave-based game. The concept is that you must survive a zombie apocalypse as a girl who wakes up in the middle of the disaster in her underwear. You don't have anything and you must arm yourself and defeat the zombies before they eat you.
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Zombie Defense: The Last Frontier
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Escape Z.
A Single and cooperative game for 4 players, you are a fighter of a special purpose unit, your task is to destroy waves of zombies by taking convenient positions and using tactic
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PURGE - Three vs Blood
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
PURGE - THREE VS BLOOD presents an exciting arena-style zombie apocalypse. Battle ravenous zombie waves with up to 3 players, unlock ranks, maps, unique characters, and a variety of weapons and traps.
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Escape Z.
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
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Survive the Nights
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Ultimate Battle
Single-player alternative to Escape Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Z.
A game full of action and lots and lots of fun. Play numerous maps against your friends. Many modes: 1v1, 1v2, all against all.