Single-player games like Dead Rising® 2
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Rising® 2, 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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Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
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Saints Row 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
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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Dead Island Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
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POSTAL 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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Saints Row
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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ZOMBI
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
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Just Cause 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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Mortal Kombat 1
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Dead Rising® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
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.