Single-player games like Mutation
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mutation, 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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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mutation.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Deus Ex: The Fall
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mutation.
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.
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TOXICANT
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mutation.
TOXICANT offers a sinister twist on the survival horror genre, featuring randomized levels and roguelike elements.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Mutation.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Welcome to Basingstoke
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mutation.
Basingstoke is a tense rogue-like that mixes stealth and arcade action. Explore the smouldering ruins of Basingstoke, a world of reanimated undead and ferocious alien monsters. Scavenge as you go, crafting equipment to help you in your mission: escape Basingstoke!
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My Putrid Ponies
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mutation.
A zombie ponies game where you have to survive with a shotgun.
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DESOLATE
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mutation.
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
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Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
Single-player alternative to Mutation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mutation.
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.