Single-player games like Metal Dead
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Metal Dead, 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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Massive Cleavage vs Zombies: Awesome Edition
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Metal Dead.
Your mission is to find BBQ sauce for your people and bring it back to them. Fighting off thousands of zombies with only your massive cleaver and equally massive cleavage.
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RUSLICSTAN INVADES
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Save Ukraine from the hordes of swamp savages! Enjoy physics-based combat and lowbrow dark comedy along the way!
- 3
Kindergarten 2
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
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Outpost 13
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Outpost 13 is a point and click adventure strategy game where you, a monster, must escape an icy planet by strategically killing off crew members while maintaining your cover as "Fen" the crew's pet dog. Play smart and you might just make it off-world alive.
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Harvester
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metal Dead.
A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!
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Kindergarten
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
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FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
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The Dark Inside Me
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director based on dynamic scenario. The Dark Inside Me, is a very unique psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director Akçay Karaazmak, based on dynamic interactive scenario.
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Sauna of the DEAD
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Dead.
Heatwave Master, bring order to underworld's sauna. FEEL the exhilarating chaos of Heatwave Mastery!
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metal Dead.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY!
Single-player alternative to Metal Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Metal Dead.
Play as the New kid in South Park and join Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, in three-dimensional glory, to celebrate the most magical day in any young child’s life - a snow day!