Single-player games like Dead Night Highway
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Night Highway, 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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Cube Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Night Highway.
Build a medieval settlement in a fantasy world, manage economy and defense, and fight battles against goblins, undead, demons, and epic boss monsters in auto‑battle style.
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Doomsday Train
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
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Clankerfront
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Night Highway.
Clankerfront is a classic isometric RTS where AI research went too far and awakened the world’s home appliances against humanity. Build bases, command armies, fight solo or co-op, and defend the front from the clankers.
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HyperCoven
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dead Night Highway.
HyperCoven is an old-school, fast-paced RTS where there's no time wasted collecting resources. Capture Coven all over the map, which will summon from among 55 unique units for you – for free. Only make sure they’re not snatched from you. Did we mention the map has no borders?
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Calyx
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dead Night Highway.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
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DUSK OF WAR
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.
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Warranted Humanity
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Night Highway.
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
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After Inc: Revival
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
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Golden Light
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Night Highway.
Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Walls are watching you!
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Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Night Highway.
A horror anthology shooter in the Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by DUSK creator David Szymanski. Featuring 7 new short games, a robust launcher world set in an abandoned arctic base.
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Golden Chambers
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Night Highway.
Welcome to REVOLVERPUNK! Chambers is a comedic RPG shooter set in the Weird Wild West! Cook the boomstick, fingercatch some bullets and wrangle that fella into your pocket!
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MECH PUNK
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Night Highway.
This game of being kidnapped against your will, with fishing
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Golden Light of Rose
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Night Highway.
Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Golden Light of Rose is a story prequel to Golden Light which follows Rose during her first time in the gut.
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Chambers: The Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Night Highway.
Take a bite of GETTING CHAMBERED in the Wild West: improvise to survive. Feed and take care of your horses. Open World with warring factions. Skills and upgrades: catch bullets, eat hats, summon bears. Revolver Monsters!