Single-player games like Cataclysm: The Last Generation
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Cataclysm: The Last Generation, 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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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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NEO Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
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Dead Engine
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
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Cargo Hunters
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cargo Hunters is a single-player extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth.
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FatalZone: Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Outbreak is the demo version of FatalZone, a bullet heaven zombie apocalypse shooter where you'll have to upgrade your base, hone your mercs' skills, and put them to the test to survive.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.
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Night Raider
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
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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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
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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Rogue
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.