Single-player games like Dead Horde
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Horde, 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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Primal Fears
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
Due to a chemical known as pharGONe, the world has been turned upside down. Battle your way through multiple levels, earning upgrades, competing against your friends and more, and find the truth about what has happened to the world.Use a variety of weapons to stop the mutated population, and save yourself from being another victim.
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Nation Red
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
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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VERSUS SQUAD
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
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Alien Breed 2: Assault
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Horde.
Can you survive the alien onslaught? Gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series.
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Over 9000 Zombies!
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive?
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Left 4 Dead
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Horde.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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#KILLALLZOMBIES
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Horde.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Twin Sector
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Horde.
The story of Twin Sector takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where the remains of mankind have been put to artificial sleep in cryogenic chambers deep under the contaminated surface of earth — until the planet becomes habitable again. You as the player must take the role of Ashley Simms, the protagonist of Twin Sector.
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Booster Trooper
Single-player alternative to Dead Horde — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Horde.
Booster Trooper is the future of multiplayer platform shooters. It provides tons of fun with its fast paced action and larger-than-life weapons. You can run or fly around the map, blasting your enemies to bits with bullets, rockets, grenades, magma and other weapons from your arsenal.