Single-player games like El Matador
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to El Matador, 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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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Max Payne 3
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
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Vanquish
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.
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Sniper Elite V2
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
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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Mafia
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men is the new action shooter franchise by Io-Interactive, creators of the multi-million selling Hitman series. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men follows the violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath - and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with El Matador.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Sabotage City
Single-player alternative to El Matador — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sabotage city takes the idea of a city builder and flips it on its head, making a city destroyer game. You are an average citizen hired to work for a gigantic demolition company, little to find out the cities are less than abandoned…