Single-player games like Ripper
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Ripper, 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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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ripper.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ripper.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ripper.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ripper.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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RUNNING WITH RIFLES
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ripper.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ripper.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
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Unreal Tournament 3
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ripper.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
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Blood: Refreshed Supply™
Single-player alternative to Ripper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ripper.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.