Single-player games like Operation: Matriarchy
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Operation: Matriarchy, 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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The Stalin Subway
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
"The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
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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Metro 2033 Redux
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
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.
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Red Faction®: Armageddon™
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Solarix
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Solarix is a science-fiction stealth/horror game, set in world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.
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Alpha Prime
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Somewhere in deep space, at an apparently abandoned mining base on the asteriod Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong. Miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong.
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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
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Return to Planet X
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Return to Planet X is a close combat FPS in which you will have to smash tons of alien bugs.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
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.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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DOOM 3
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
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Echelon
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
It's the year 2351, and you're a pilot trying to rise through the ranks all the way to glory. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'll be granted more than 20 weapons to use in each pass-fail mission. Your goal is to defend the planet from attacking alien forces, and you'll put your skills into play across more than 30 campaigns.
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Patriot: DemocratiZation
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
2017. Around the world, oil and gas reserves are being depleted. In the United States, forces hungry for world domination are coming to power. In Russia, the economic and political situation is on the verge of complete collapse.
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Echelon: Wind Warriors
Single-player alternative to Operation: Matriarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Operation: Matriarchy.
In Echelon: Wind Warriors you will discover the universe of the third millennium. This is a combat simulator involving hovering machines of the future. War is raging between the government forces of the Galactic Federation and squadrons from one of the colonies.