Single-player games like The Thing: Remastered
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Thing: Remastered, 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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Nuclear Nightmare
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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Dino Crisis
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Raw Instinct takes over in this new, adrenaline-pumping journey into Survival Horror. Something is terribly wrong. Your covert mission has gone haywire… now you find yourself pursued by a relentless, prehistoric terror. Suddenly, your mission becomes a desperate fight for survival.
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Cold Fear™
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
In a ferocious Arctic storm, distress signals are sent from a mysterious Russian whaler. As leading Coast Guard veteran Tom Hansen, you board to investigate and discover unthinkable horrors lurking beneath the ship's bloodstained decks.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
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DEAD RISING®
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
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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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Resident Evil 0
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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DOOM + DOOM II
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Quake II
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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DOOM 64
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now.
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Blood™ Fresh Supply
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
Battle an army of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds, and an insatiable host of horrors in your quest to defeat the evil Tchernobog. Squirm through 42 loathesome levels filled with more atmosphere than a Lovecraftian mausoleum.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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Turok
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Thing: Remastered.
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.