Single-player games like Hard to Be a God
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Hard to Be a God, 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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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
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Mars: War Logs
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
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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ELEX
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
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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Gothic 1
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
War has been waged across the kingdom of Myrtana. Orcish hordes invaded human territory and the king of the land needed a lot of ore to forge enough weapons, should his army stand against this threat. Whoever breaks the law in these darkest of times is sentenced to serve in the giant penal colony of Khorinis, mining the so much needed...
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hard to Be a God.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
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UberSoldier II
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Deal another deadly blow to fascism!
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UberSoldier
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Get ready for an epic World War II adventure like no other with UberSoldier! Immerse yourself in a gripping first-person shooter that will transport you to the heart of the action. This game developed by Burut Creative Team will have you on the edge of your seat.
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Cannon Fodder 3
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cannon Fodder 3 is a tactical action game, which inherited the style and traditions of the original game. The war goes on and its scale is nearly the same as before. 500 conscripts are sent to meet their destiny. What awaits them? A general's stars or a bed of honor?
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Kreed: Battle for Savitar
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Before you lies the story of a legendary Legion, destined in the distant future to reshape Earth’s civilization and lead its mission among the stars. A future in which humanity will achieve victory in the decisive battle for the Savitar space station.
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Kreed
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Kreed, a massive gravity field of unknown proportions, is threatening to swallow the galaxy whole. As a soldier marooned there, you must fight for your survival against hordes of alien marauders and unearth the dark secret behind the mysterious space anomaly.
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M.I.A.: Mission in Asia
Single-player alternative to Hard to Be a God — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tensions were growing on the border of Slaviya. Secret service of Primorye put subversive activities on a wide scale confronted by Federal Security Service (FSS) of Russian Federation. FSS receives information that one of FSS agents was over-recruited by Secret service of Primorye.