Single-player games like Prey
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Prey, 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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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Alien Life Lab
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
Giedi Satellite takes a job as a wildlife handler on a colossal nature preserve space station that goes awry in comedic and horrific fashion. Become an Alien Wildlife Control Specialist in this horromedy adventure.
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Skin Deep
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
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Dead Space (2008)
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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High On Life 2
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
An intergalactic conspiracy threatens the fate of humanity! Team up with a wide cast of talking alien guns as you shoot, stab, and skate your way through the exotic locales to take down the bad guys and save your favorite species (humans)!
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Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Prey.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Dishonored 2
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Team up with a friend or play solo as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters and wield a powerful arsenal of new weapons, gadgets, and abilities to liberate Paris from the Nazis.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Single-player alternative to Prey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Prey.
Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.