Single-player games like Tailbreak
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Tailbreak, 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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Railbreak
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Power through hordes of zombies, '90s arcade style, in this on-rails survival horror shooter.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tailbreak.
Cross-platform online 4-player co-op survival horror returns in this early 2000s-inspired, undead apocalyptic nightmare.
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Lethal Wedding
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Say “I do” to Lethal Wedding, a top-down RPG shooter where the wedding is off, and vengeance is on. When criminal clowns kidnap the groom, the Bride and Mother-in-Law must fight through circus freaks and mafia thugs in this gritty 16-bit experience of bullets and blood.
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Until The Last Bullet
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tailbreak.
Until The Last Bullet is a unique combination of an FMV and rail-shooter game in which you navigate the winding halls of an abandoned factory, eliminating waves of bloodthirsty mutants.
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PILGRIM
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tailbreak.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Dead Island 2
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tailbreak.
A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
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Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.
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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.
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Outbreak: Lost Hope
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
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Outbreak: Epidemic
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.
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Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.
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Outbreak: Contagious Memories
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.
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Dinobreak
Single-player alternative to Tailbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tailbreak.
Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.