Single-player games like Metro Awakening
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Metro Awakening, 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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After the Fall®
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
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Distortion VR
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The world of Distortion exists in a Cyberpunk mega city in the near future. It is a world where technology is being abused and the citizens are being controlled by thought from birth. What's real is uncertain.
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The Stranger VR
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The Stranger is an intense VR combat game which sets in an incredibly detailed exotic world. Explore the rich sci fi universe and survive with your weapons and wrist blade. Welcome to the world of the Stranger!
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DemonPandemicVR
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
We all have inner demons, now it's time to face them. You are a lone wolf, you must scavenge for weapons and yeet your environment across seven maps as you try to survive this VR shooter against waves of demons.
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System Critical 2
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
System Critical 2 is bigger & badder than ever before! Get ready to experience a platformer shooter like no other in VR. Blast your arm cannon and use guns, melee weapons, grenades,& shields to make your way through the carefully crafted levels with epic boss battles and tons of enemies to kill.
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Of Lies and Rain
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
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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GAZZLERS
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Set in a cartoon world, you shoot, block and dodge your way through hordes of hilarious enemies that drive and fly around in their clunky vehicles. Steal their scrap, upgrade your skills and build a weapon so insane it just might work! How far will you get?
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HEARTSHOT
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
HEARTSHOT is a story driven VR espionage thriller where fast, chaotic gunplay meets retro-inspired cinematic environments. Armed with high-tech magnet gloves, seize weapons from fallen enemies and manipulate your environment as you make your way through a mysterious subterranean complex.
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Metro 2033 Redux
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
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Metro: Last Light Redux
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
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.
- 13
Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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Arizona Sunshine® 2
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
It's time to say hello to your old pal, Fred. Arizona Sunshine® 2, the next-gen sequel to the fan-favorite VR apocalypse, packs even more gore-geous zombie action! And what's better than braving the end of the f*cking world alone? Surviving it with your new best friend--Buddy.
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Arizona Sunshine® Remake
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Arizona Sunshine® Remake elevates the original, award-winning game, completely rebuilt with GORE-geous VR graphics and next-gen VR combat and weapons. Face the undead alone or with up to three fellow survivors in a post-apocalyptic southwestern America overrun by zombies.
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World of Diving
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
An uncharted world awaits. World of Diving is the multiplayer online game that brings you an exhilarating underwater adventure with optional VR support.
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Adam's Venture: Origins
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.
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The 7th Guest VR
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The iconic supernatural mystery, The 7th Guest, has been brought back to life with cutting-edge VR technology, that delivers an atmospheric story like no other. Explore the foreboding mansion, solve challenging puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets.
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Adam's Venture Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Metro Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Help renowned explorer and adventurer Adam Venture and his accomplice Evelyn discover artifacts, unravel ancient mysteries, decipher strange symbols and solve ingenious puzzles around gorgeous historical sites from the 1920's.