Single-player games like System Shock
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to System Shock, 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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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
"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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Prey
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
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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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
Relive Half-Life.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Syndrome
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
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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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with System Shock.
The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
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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Ctrl Alt Ego
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Innovative genre mashup (first-person immersive sim puzzler FPS RPG) with emphasis on problem-solving and creativity. Unique vibes and original mechanics that you won't have experienced before. One of the best games of 2022 according to various credible sources!
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Scorn
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
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Dragon's Dogma 2
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
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DOOM + DOOM II
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Quake II
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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DOOM 64
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now.
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Blood™ Fresh Supply
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with System Shock.
Battle an army of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds, and an insatiable host of horrors in your quest to defeat the evil Tchernobog. Squirm through 42 loathesome levels filled with more atmosphere than a Lovecraftian mausoleum.
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Turok
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.
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Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Single-player alternative to System Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock.
Having defeated the Campaigner, Turok throws the Chronocepter into a waiting volcano to destroy it. Unfortunately the blast awakens an even deadlier force - The Primagen. Once again a Turok is tasked with restoring peace to the land and stopping the Primagen from merging Earth with the nether world.