Single-player games like Project Pulsation
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Project Pulsation, 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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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Relive Half-Life.
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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
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.
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Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
You carved your soul to shreds in servitude to a dark god, but false promises and betrayal were your only reward. Now you have a score to settle and it will be measured in blood! Experience the madness in one carnage-soaked package! All the gore, all the unholy war! Zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds and blood-crazed hordes of horrors await!
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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is a new stand-alone expansion to the world of the classic FPS series. Join the fight against Notorious Mental on a journey through the wild lands of Russia, and find your way through this lost chapter of Sam Stone's adventures.
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Hard Reset Redux
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Hard Reset Redux is an action-packed and hardcore single-player shooter which embraces the best qualities that the genre has it offer. It includes over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies, great weapon variety, a challenging campaign and a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting.
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Z.I.O.N.
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Z.I.O.N. - First-person shooter in a post-apocalyptic setting, where robotic creatures take over the planet and Z.I.O.N. group agents are trying to save the world.
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Invisible Mind
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Go on a trip around the worlds created by your own mind and learn yourself.
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Infinitum
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.
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Crazy Buggy Racing
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Pulsation.
Speed! Fun! Madness!
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Phobia
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Pulsation.
Horror. Nightmare. Fear. Monsters. Madness. And again ... And again ....
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Infernales
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Kill all the creatures of hell ...
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Infernales: Circles of Hell
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Pulsation.
Just shoot ....
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Really Trash Game
Single-player alternative to Project Pulsation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Pulsation.
The Mafia wages war on you! Cut your way through cohorts of gangs and dirty cops in this bloody battle. Grab the guns, use the med kits to heal your wounds, and try to survive.