Single-player games like They Are Coming
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to They Are Coming, 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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Yet Another Zombie Defense
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.
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The Ember Guardian
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They Are Coming.
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
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Monsters are Coming!
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
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Utopia Must Fall
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
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Crafting Dead
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
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Deep Among the Swarm
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to They Are Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.