Single-player games like Z
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Z, 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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3rd Invasion - Zombies vs. Steel
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Z.
In this game Strategy is the key to Survival. You need an awesome Grand Strategy to win this war. A RTS action game with an Cool Base Building feature.
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Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Z.
Animal Farm meets Real Time Strategy. Welcome to Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero. Plan, Fight and Defeat the evil pigs with all available weaponery. With courage and strategy to victory.
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Outbreak Overlord
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Z.
Outbreak Overlord is a real-time tactics game set in a post-apocalyptic world that puts you in command of a zombie who must infect other humans to increase his horde. Send them on a series of hazardous missions and devastate any remaining communities.
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SunAge: Battle for Elysium
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Z.
A return to the roots of real-time strategy, providing beautiful 2D visuals combined with all the features that we came to expect from old school classics. This remastered version is a culmination of all the improvements and new features based upon suggestions from the community.
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Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov's Revenge
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Z.
Pick your faction, Monster, strategy, and find out who gets to become King of the Undead!
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I Wanna Build a Robot
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Z.
Action-packed pixel-art old-schol dungeon crawler ! A little boy is stuck at home waiting for his mom.
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Shrot
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Z.
Shrot is a bite-sized old-school action RTS set on a sandy planet with horses, tractors and techno music.
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Total Annihilation
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Z.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.
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Rogue Trooper Redux
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Z.
A pioneering tactical shooter and landmark comic book adaptation, Rogue Trooper is back, remastered and revitalised in true high definition. Experience acclaimed third-person action in this BAFTA-nominated tale of betrayal and revenge at the far reaches of the galaxy!
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Z Steel Soldiers
Single-player alternative to Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Z.
In the bloody aftermath of ‘Z’ comes The Bitmap Brothers classic, “Z Steel Soldiers”: a new breed of robot with a taste for war and a warped sense of humour.