Single-player games like Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix, 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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Fear Effect
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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MDK 2
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
3 Unlikely Heroes, 1 Ultimate Goal Kurt Hectic is back to save the universe. This time he is teamed with the genius Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog, Max. Together they must out-sneak, out-blast and out-think their enemies as they attempt to reclaim earth from a vile alien menace.
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Tomb Raider: Legend
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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Fighting Force Collection
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
The legendary 3D beat 'em up is back: Fighting Force!
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Milano's Odd Job Collection
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Milano is on her own for summer vacation, and she’s ready to live her best life! Take on part-time jobs, personalize your home, or spend the day eating popcorn at the park. Experience this retro classic for the first time outside of Japan, now with modern improvements.
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70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X
Single-player alternative to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
A fully remastered 70s-style super robot anime meets fast-paced arcade-style 2D side-scrolling shooter action. A Japanese cult classic finally available worldwide — now reborn in HD.