Single-player games like Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition, 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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Dead Rising® 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
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DEAD RISING®
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
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METAL GEAR SURVIVE
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.
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Dead Rising 4
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SOULS
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
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Yakuza Kiwami
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Unwind a 10 billion yen conspiracy in Tokyo's red-light district, fueled by your fists and unyielding resolve that will make you a legend.
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Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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God of War
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
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Sleeping Dogs
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.