Single-player games like Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, 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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Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
The new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots...
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Men of Valor
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles.
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Project: Snowblind
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Experience the dramatic intensity of the frontlines of a war through the eyes of the first of a new breed of super soldiers in this gritty and epic first-person action game. An augmented super-soldier must stop a renegade regime from eradicating the civilized world. Hong Kong, 2065. 2nd Lt.
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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
In late 1993, the United States launched dual military operations in Mogadishu Somalia. Delta Force Operatives and Army Rangers were sent in to capture Somali warlords and restore order. Experience the intense combat of Operation Restore Hope in this ground breaking first person shooter.
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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.
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Iron Storm
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Western Germany, March 1964... The last Great War rages on. Madness at the front lines. Men butchering each other. War-torn Europe stands ripped apart by a front line that runs straight through the heart of Germany where American and Western European troops battle against enemy forces.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown™
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Engineered specifically for the PC by Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six returns to deliver the tensest close-quarters battles ever experienced online. In this episode, Rainbow faces independent terrorist threats, tied together by one common element - the Legion virus.
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Frontlines™: Fuel of War™
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ is an open-world First Person Shooter set on the frontlines of tomorrow. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression, players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Western Coalition Army on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the last of...
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Red Faction II
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.
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Daylight
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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Guardians of Middle-earth
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
A shadow grows over Middle-earth as the greatest armies of the Third Age prepare for the coming battle. Take up arms in the clash over Middle-earth as the most powerful heroes and villains from the greatest fantasy epic of all time.
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Blacklight: Tango Down
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
In Blacklight: Tango Down, experience the bleeding edge of advanced warfare. Participate in the “NetWar”: a hyper-realistic battlefield letting you fight tomorrow’s conflicts with or against your friends in the gritty Blacklight universe.
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Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip…Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?