Single-player games like H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R., 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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Monday Night Combat
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Monday Night Combat is a class-based, third-person shooter… and the most popular lethal sport of the future!
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Atomic Heart
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
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ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Iron Core: Mech Survivor
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
100 years after a nuclear apocalypse, an AI-managed shelter and its guardian mechs await human survivors. The shelter’s reactor creates safe zones to improve living conditions. Players control mechs to gather reactor fuel, fend off mutants, complete missions, and protect survivors.
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Metro Exodus
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Hitler Waifu
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Welcome to the absurd world of Hitler Waifu! In this satirical video game, you take on the unconventional character of Eva, Adolf Hitler's wife.
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HITLER WAIFU 2
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Hitler Waifu 2 - is a parody third-person 3D shooter with satire and black humor
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Hentai Mission Ukraine
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
After the Special Operation (war), the country of a united and strong people, they sent a spy in order to destroy all the invaders, terrorists and the main dictator Putler. Let the cute and beautiful spy find the old runes of the invaders and find the main secret of Putler's strength and long life.
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Hitler On The Moon
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
The dictatorship and Quarantine did not end, so the Japanese authorities sent their spy into space ...
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Hentai Fantasy World
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Hentai Fantasy World - Fantasy 3rd person shooter playing as a cute witch girl.
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HENTAI: MISSION BOMBASS
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
IN SHORT, THIS IS AN ABSURD, SATIRICAL SHOOTER WHERE YOU NEED TO KILL ALL THE NARROW OCCUPANTS, AND THERE IS NOT FAR TO THE BNR. STOP THINKING ALREADY, HERE IS BLACK HUMOR AND MEMES, PLAY FASTER! WHAT I HAVE TRIED...
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Hitler My Friend
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Welcome to the absurd world of Hitler My Friend - a 3D shooter that will change your ideas about alternative history! In this game you will climb into the boots of the unforeseen Adolf Hitler and go in search of the last representative of the Ururi race.
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Hentai USSR
Single-player alternative to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R..
Hentai USSR is a wild mix of shooter, stealth and absurdity, where your task is to disrupt the USSR's plans and steal a secret weapon that would be better left unheard of. Welcome to the Cold War through the eyes of an American anime spy