Single-player games like The Zombie Wave
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Zombie Wave, 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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wonShot
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Zombie Wave.
Your job is to destroy as many enemy ships as possible with your giant laser, but it only fires once per day! Travel through the galaxy destroying the rebel army one shot at a time in wonShot!
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Village of Zombies
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Zombie Wave.
In Village of Zombies you can fight against zombies and mutants together with other players or alone on different maps, the goal is to survive as many levels as possible. The game always starts at level 1 and with each level increase, more zombies and stronger zombies come.
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Kill the Pineapple
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Zombie Wave.
Kill the Pineapple is a trippy Third Person Shooter in a psychedelic dream-world.
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Happy Z-Day
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Zombie Wave.
Today is supposed to be your daughter's birthday, But something happened in this town. Almost everyone has turn into a Monster. You need to protect your daughter and her birthday party!
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Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Zombie Wave.
** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Experience a terrifyingly intense co-op campaign for up to four players in this gut-wrenching sequel to Steam best-seller, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army.
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Blood Waves
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Zombie Wave.
Hardcore and bloody shooter where you will have to repel the attacks of the living dead using the destroying traps, defensive barricades and also weapon of close and long-range combat.
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Sniper Elite V2
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Zombie Wave.
In the dark days of the end of World War Two amidst the ruins of Berlin, one bullet can change history…
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Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Single-player alternative to The Zombie Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Zombie Wave.
** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series.