Single-player games like State of Decay: YOSE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to State of Decay: YOSE, 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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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
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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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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LifeZ - Survival
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
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How to Survive
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with State of Decay: YOSE.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with State of Decay: YOSE.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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VEIN
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with State of Decay: YOSE.
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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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with State of Decay: YOSE.
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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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with State of Decay: YOSE.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with State of Decay: YOSE.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
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Dead State: Reanimated
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with State of Decay: YOSE.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with State of Decay: YOSE.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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State of Decay 3
Single-player alternative to State of Decay: YOSE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with State of Decay: YOSE.
Play as a community of survivors, build up your settlements with friends, and destroy zombies in State of Decay 3, the latest in the franchise from developer Undead Labs.