Single-player games like Resident Evil (1996)
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Resident Evil (1996), 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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Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
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Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.
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Dino Crisis
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Raw Instinct takes over in this new, adrenaline-pumping journey into Survival Horror. Something is terribly wrong. Your covert mission has gone haywire… now you find yourself pursued by a relentless, prehistoric terror. Suddenly, your mission becomes a desperate fight for survival.
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Ground Zero
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Flesh Made Fear
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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Resident Evil 3
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Resident Evil 6
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
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Resident Evil 5
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
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Monster Hunter: World
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
Welcome to a new world! In Monster Hunter: World, the latest installment in the series, you can enjoy the ultimate hunting experience, using everything at your disposal to hunt monsters in a new world teeming with surprises and excitement.
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Monster Hunter Wilds
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
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Devil May Cry 5
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
The ultimate Devil Hunter is back in style, in the game action fans have been waiting for.
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Resident Evil Village
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Resident Evil (1996).
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Resident Evil (1996) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Resident Evil (1996).
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.