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
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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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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Dead Island 2
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.
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Days Gone
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
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DEAD RISING®
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
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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Sunset Overdrive
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dying Light: The Beast.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Dying Light: The Beast.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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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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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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DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to Dying Light: The Beast — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dying Light: The Beast.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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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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