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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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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 With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
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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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Darwinia
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dead Night Highway.
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
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Infection Free Zone
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Gold Gold Adventure Gold
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
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Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Night Highway.
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
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Golden Light
Single-player alternative to Dead Night Highway — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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 RPG 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 Simulation 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.
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 RPG 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!