Single-player games like Alien Apocalypse
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Alien Apocalypse, 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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
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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Dark and Light
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Apocalypse.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Death's Life
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Now you’re the new apprentice for Death. And it's your job to help gather souls. Only thing is, you can't just go and kill people to get the souls, it has to look natural. Like an accident. And that means setting up bottles, knives, brooms, and other regular objects in such a way as to create deadly chain reactions.
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Death's Life 2
Single-player alternative to Alien Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Apocalypse.
A physics-based puzzle game where you play as Death, creating “accidental” deaths through chain reactions. Solve scenarios in multiple ways or survive and escape from deadly trap-filled environments.