Single-player games like Dying Light: The Beast
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Dying Light: The Beast, 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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Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
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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Zombase
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Zombase is a multiplayer survival sandbox with unique 2.5D visuals. Build physics-based mobile bases, attach wheels or propellers to move and fly across the map to survive a deadly storm that constantly forces players to relocate and adapt.
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ZIC – Zombies in City
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
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Borderlands 3
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Killing Floor 2
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
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Stalker
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Cyberpunk 2077
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Dead Island Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez® Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws.
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Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
THE OLD WEST, 1864. In order to save their family, the McCall brothers will kill anyone who stands between them and the legendary Gold of Juarez.
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Call of Juarez
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
Call of Juarez is an epic adventure western themed FPS game. The player alternately assumes the roles of two distinct, antagonistic characters: a sneaking fugitive Billy and his hunter the reverend Ray.
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Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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