Single-player games like VHS Freaks
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to VHS Freaks, 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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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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Blood: Refreshed Supply™
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with VHS Freaks.
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.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with VHS Freaks.
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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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with VHS Freaks.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with VHS Freaks.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
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Trepang2
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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Vektor Wars
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Certified 100% pure arcade action, rendered in eye-melting neon vectors, Vektor Wars is classic first-person blasting for the shooter connoisseur.
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Gates of Hell
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Gates of Hell is a fast-paced first-person shooter where you must battle through relentless waves of Demonic terror!
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VHS Vermin
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
Rewind to a grimy 80s B-movie nightmare. VHS Vermin is a retro survival-horror FPS: three cursed tapes and a wrap-around story, scarce ammo and swarms of mutated spiders, slugs and worse lurking in the dark. Part 1 of the VHS Horror Series.
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VHS-Aliens – Part 3 of the VHS Horror Series
Single-player alternative to VHS Freaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VHS Freaks.
The VHS Horror Series continues with pure 80s B-movie alien invasion terror. Limited ammo, relentless hordes, and grotesque extraterrestrial nightmares. VHS-Aliens — the tape gets even bloodier.