Single-player games like They're Alive!
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to They're Alive!, 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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Deadly Desire
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They're Alive!.
An FPS shooter story game set in the Haluwa at the beginning of the Calculus pandemic. Answering the question "What if they were right?"
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Arthas 2
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
The continuation of a great game about a great man!
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Dirty Wars: September 11
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They're Alive!.
Historical indie videogame about the suburbs of the Cold War in South America.
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The American Dream
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They're Alive!.
Look down the barrel of a future where all your everyday needs are solved with guns.
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TYRONE SOULZ
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
It was supposed to be an uneventful arrest, but after the suspect made a blood pact with Yakub, this rookie cop is in for much more than he bargained for. Can he defeat Tyrone and return home to his family?
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Super-Patriota Simulator
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
Attention! In 72 hours something very important will happen, stay in the streets, do your part and wait for the armed forces! For the future of the country and for the future of your children! The Super-Patriot is coming!
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The Space Bar
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with They're Alive!.
Play as Alias Node, a human detective working on planet, Armpit VI. Your assignment? Catch a shifty criminal, wanted for grand theft and murder, before whatever it is, escapes to another world!
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Death Comes Skiing
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with They're Alive!.
When a retired cross-country ski team meets to celebrate their past victories, the past soon catches up to them. It's up to you to make sense of the slaughter that follows in this comedic point-and-click murder mystery.
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The Stalin Subway
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
"The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.
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The Stalin Subway: Red Veil
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
With the death of Stalin, all those who surrounded him, are now fighting for the supreme power and control over the nation. Lena, our heroine, has found that her husband has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. She has no clue about who did it, but she knows whom to ask.
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Dusk 12
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with They're Alive!.
Dusk 12 is a first person shooter, full of action where the player will incarnate two heroes. One of the soldiers of the group, with unknown past and one of the infected men with the virus, who has strength, speed and fortitude beyond human limits.
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Metathrone
Single-player alternative to They're Alive! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with They're Alive!.
Young hacker Iten Langley is a true legend of information networks. He works for his own profit, spying and hacking into defense systems. But his whole life changed in a matter of seconds, when after another attack on the server for him begins a real hunt!