Single-player games like BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to BioShock™ 2 Remastered, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like BioShock™ 2 Remastered page.
Ranked picks
- 1
BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
- 2
Dishonored
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
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.
- 3
Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
- 4
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
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...
- 5
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
- 6
Metro 2033 Redux
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
- 7
The Darkness II
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
- 8
Atomic Heart
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
- 9
BioShock Infinite
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
- 10
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.
- 11
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
- 12
System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
- 13
Prey
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
- 14
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
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.
- 15
We Happy Few
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
- 16
DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
- 17
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ 2 Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™ 2 Remastered.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.