Single-player games like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011), 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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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
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Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots...
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
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Call of Duty® (2003)
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Call of Duty® delivers the gritty realism and cinematic intensity of World War II's epic battlefield moments like never before.
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Call of Duty®: Warzone™
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.
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Call of Duty®: Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to...
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Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare envisions a powerful future, where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise.Power Changes Everything.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.
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Medal of Honor: Airborne
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the “All-American” 82nd Airborne Division, and revolutionize the way the war is fought. From a rocky beginning in Sicily to war winning triumphs in the heart of Germany, fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into combat legends.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
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PAYDAY 2
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
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Battlefield™ 1
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.
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Call of Duty®
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
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Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare
Single-player alternative to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011).
Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.