Single-player games like Genotype
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Genotype, 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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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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Metro Awakening
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
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Of Lies and Rain
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Of Lies and Rain is a story-driven first person shooter built exclusively for VR. Set in a dark, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic world, at the edge of the real and digital realm. You’ll fight to reclaim your past and save humanity from the brink of extinction.
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Zexion
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and valor to succeed in this action-packed sci-fi adventure!
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Red Matter 2
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Crysis
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Genotype.
Adapt to Survive An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments. Suit up! A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
Relive Half-Life.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Genotype.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Genotype.
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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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Genotype.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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The Thing: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Genotype.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Genotype — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Genotype.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.