Single-player games like The S.H.O.W.
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The S.H.O.W., 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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Breed Kim Il-Sung
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The S.H.O.W..
With millions of men dead as a result of the Korean War, the Dear Leader needs YOU to help rebuild the glorious DPRK in this action-roguelike FPS. Liquidate capitalist agitators to earn veneration from the Kims and ensure their bloodline perseveres to see a future free from imperialist aggression!
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MEATBALLS GARDEN
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The S.H.O.W..
Meatballs Farm is a fast-paced first-person farming game. Farm, fish, and gather by day. Monsters come at night. You have only 30 days to pay your debt to the King. Miss the payment, and you’re dead.
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Monkey Doomsday
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The S.H.O.W..
Welcome to a world where the entire human population of earth is undergoing a massive de evolution process! The human race has de evolved back into monkeys and are causing an apocalyptic mayhem over the entire earth, and It's only up to you to end this terrorizing madness!
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Super Bio-Man
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The S.H.O.W..
Super Bio-Man is the ultimate gunslinger and the guardian of our galaxy. Using his arsenal and metal fist, he shows the invaders from outer space - who's the boss here.
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Dick Wilde
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The S.H.O.W..
Those pesky swamp critters are at it again! Scarin’ off all the good folk who just want to go huntin’ and fishin’ on their lakes and lagoons! We’re talking piranhas, eels, ‘gators - you name it! There’s even been talk of a giant mutated Turtle on the loose!
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TYRONE vs COPS VR
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The S.H.O.W..
Sip lean and shoot cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America... Fully reimagined for VR!
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Blue Estate The Game
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The S.H.O.W..
Blue Estate is a black-humoured and corrosive rail shooter, adapted from the critically acclaimed and Eisner Award nominated graphic novel, Blue Estate by Viktor Kalvachev!
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The American Dream
Single-player alternative to The S.H.O.W. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The S.H.O.W..
Look down the barrel of a future where all your everyday needs are solved with guns.