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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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    Men of Valor — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016Action9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising — Steam game cover

    Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a game about a fictitious conflict on one of the Sakhalin islands.

    2009ActionDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Enemy Front — Steam game cover

    Enemy Front

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    ENEMY FRONT is the first truly modern WW2 FPS, featuring stunning visuals, open-ended levels and a richly interactive combat experience that breaks out of the standard model of highly linear scripted FPS experiences, giving the player full freedom to own their playing style.

    2014Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in 'Sin City' threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.

    2008Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Delta Force 1 — Steam game cover

    Delta Force 1

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.

    2009Action4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Medal of Honor™ — Steam game cover

    Medal of Honor™

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.

    2010Action3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arma 3 — Steam game cover

    Arma 3

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.

    2013ActionStrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

    Eastern Europe, 2008. War has broken out on the borders of Russia and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. That's when the call goes out for the Ghosts—an elite handful of specially trained Green Berets, armed with the latest technology and trained to use the deadliest weapons.

    2008Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Faction II — Steam game cover

    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.

    2009ActionStrategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023Action59.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023Action69.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Daylight — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Guardians of Middle-earth — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionStrategyDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blacklight: Tango Down — Steam game cover

    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.

    2010ActionSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands — Steam game cover

    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?

    2017AdventureNudityViolent5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →