Single-player games like Descent
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Descent, 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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Descent 2
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
More pulse-pounding 360° action blasting through tunnels with six degrees of freedom.
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Overload
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.
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Descent 3
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
The vertigo continues as the highly anticipated sequel to Descent I and II takes the mind-bending, pulse-pounding experience to another level!
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STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.
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Desecrators
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
Desecrators is a retro six-degrees-of-freedom shooter set in a 41st-century galaxy where outlaw hovercraft pilots plunder deep-space installations. Loot destructive weapons and powerful upgrades to take on the ultimate heist: the legendary vaults of the Galactic Treasury.
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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.
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Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
Volition's classic is back. Descent: FreeSpace is the quintessential old school space shooter. With a deep story, great graphics and engaging battles against fighters to capital ships it keeps you moving. Breakout that flight stick and enroll with the Grand Terran Alliance today.
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Battlezone 98 Redux
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Descent.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.