Single-player games like Surrounded by Death
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Surrounded by Death, 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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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surrounded by Death.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
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Sons of Valhalla
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Surrounded by Death.
Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
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Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Surrounded by Death.
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
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Rebirth evolution
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surrounded by Death.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
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Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surrounded by Death.
An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.
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Quarantineer
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Surrounded by Death.
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
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Infection Free Zone
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Surrounded by Death.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Surrounded by Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Surrounded by Death.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?