Single-player games like Split/Second
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Split/Second, 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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GRIP: Combat Racing
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Split/Second.
Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.
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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
Download Burnout™ Paradise: The Ultimate Box today. Paradise City is the largest and most dangerous setting yet for the best-selling Burnout series. The massive setting gives players an open-ended world to explore, as they race their vehicles through hundreds of miles of roads and underground passages with more than 70 different cars.
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Redout: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.
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Distance
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Split/Second.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
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GRID Autosport
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
It’s all about the teams, the rivals and the race as you become driver for hire, specialising in your favourite disciplines or conquering them all in an intense world of professional motorsport.
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Horizon Chase Turbo
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Split/Second.
Thrilling arcade racing game, inspired by the super-fun-straight-to-the-point classic racing games from the 90s.
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Star Drift Evolution
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
Speed up and powerslide through twisty corners in this minimalistic arcade racer. No braking required. Stay on the throttle and feel the adrenaline of highspeed drifting. Race against AI, leaderboard ghosts or friends online or in split screen. Easy to learn, hard to master!
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GRID 2
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
Be fast, be first and be famous as the race returns in GRID 2, the sequel to the BAFTA-award winning, multi-million selling Race Driver: GRID.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Split/Second.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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Need for Speed™
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Split/Second.
Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.
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XENO WIPEOUT!
Single-player alternative to Split/Second — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Split/Second.
After centuries of invincibility, it became popular for humans to watch live alien hunting shows, participate in alien hunts, save up money, equipment, and use all the loot you find to move on to new maps and defeat more powerful enemies.