Single-player games like SynthwaveZ
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to SynthwaveZ, 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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Malignant
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Sometimes to beat them... you have to join them. Mutate mid-combat, weaponize your own body, and fight through a grotesque, lore-rich nightmare in this 80s themed horde-shooter.
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Sker Ritual
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.
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Day of the dead
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
A multiplayer low-poly styled zombieshooter game
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John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Pick a character and team up with three friends ‘cause it’s time to save the world. Experience intense FPS action as you obliterate hordes of terrifying monsters! You may not be on the best team of mercenaries, but you are… a Toxic Commando!
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Hellbreach: Vegas
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Hellbreach: Vegas is a Wave-based First-Person Shooter for 1-4 players, made with passion by a one man dev team! Set your loadout, kill, and earn cash. Take a spin on the various slot machines and level up to improve your survival chances. Are you ready to try your luck?
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After the Fall®
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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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Contagion
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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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Temporal Purge: Z
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Become an interdimensional zombie slayer in Temporal Purge: Z, an action-packed zombie-survival FPS. Face the zombie onslaught as you eradicate countless undead monsters on your quest to save the future.
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Nasty Zombies
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Team up with up to 4 players and take on endless waves of Nasty Zombies in a high-intensity, movement-focused boomer shooter. Use agility and smart positioning to survive semi-procedural maps and unlock permanent upgrades like Blessings, Miracles, and cosmetics.
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Russian Prisoner VS Nazi Zombies
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
You are prisoner Artyomich, and you need to kill all the devils of the SS from Hell in order to save Russia from the apocalypse.
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Zombies
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Zombies is a round based survival game following a sole surviver and thier blood lust for killing the undead.
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Stella: into the Shadow
Single-player alternative to SynthwaveZ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.