Single-player games like Fallout 4
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Fallout 4, 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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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
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Cyberpunk 2077
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Stalker
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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ELEX
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
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Far Cry® 5
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Discover the open world of Hope County, Montana, besieged by a fanatical doomsday cult. Dive into the action solo or two-player co-op in the story campaign, use a vast arsenal of weapons and allies, and free Hope County from Joseph Seed and his cult.
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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Fallout 4 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Fallout 4.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.