Single-player games like Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, 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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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
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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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
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Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Experience your deepest fears within the terrifying walls of Dr. Psycho's Hospital. Is this asylum the result of your own tormented mind? Go through many challenges, find hidden items and face awful psychopaths. Will you escape this nightmare or become its eternal prisoner?
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Deck of Ashes
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. One character at a time, lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the Ash Curse?
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Chroma Squad
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Tactical RPG about 5 stunt actors who decide to quit their jobs and start their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show! Cast actors, upgrade your studio, craft Mechas of cardboard and duct tape. Once the cameras are rolling, control your cast of 5 colored-jumpsuit-clad warriors in turn-based battles.
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- Arcane Raise -
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Arcane Raise is a role-playing video game franchise, wherein a group of resurrected hunters known as Shades, fight alongside humans against monsters in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by an infestation. Do you have what it takes to survive this hostile land?
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Lawless Lands
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
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Waste Walkers
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Wasteland Remastered
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The RPG classic rises from the nuclear ashes! Wasteland Remastered is an overhaul of the 1988 title that brought the post-apocalypse to video games. See where the Wasteland series began and experience the character and world the sequels are built on.
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RAGE
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
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ELEX
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
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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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
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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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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ENDLESS™ Legend
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.